Government will cancel route permits for transport operators whose drivers are routinely caught flouting road traffic laws and has deployed police and Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officers to ensure compliance, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said.
Minister Matiza said police would be out in full force to rid the roads of defective vehicles and warned against drunk driving and overloading of buses, all of them major causes of traffic accidents on the nation’s highways.
“I would like to appeal to operators of public service vehicles as well as private motorists not to use defective and unroadworthy vehicles,” said Minister Matiza.
“In this respect, I want to advise would-be offenders that the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Vehicle Inspection Department will
be on the lookout for defective vehicles throughout the holiday period,” he said.
“I thus urge you to provide a safe and
timeous service which should see everybody being transported to their destination safely.
An operator who has been issued with an operator’s licence and route authorities has obligations to comply with the law,” said the Minister.
“He/she is obliged to provide services authorised in terms of the route authority and to keep to stipulated timetables. Overloading of buses will not be tolerated,

either.” The Herald