The application of ordinance 14-2021 that regulates the vehicle transit of loading more than two axes or more for the National District found resistance yesterday by Truckers that by contempt or ignorance they will insist on using the boardwalk to transport as usual.
The General Directorate of Traffic Security and Terrestrial Transport (Digesett) placed several agents throughout the highway May 30 and George Washington to enforce the ordinance that prohibits by those route the transit of vehicles of load not authorized.
In order to use the road, drivers had to show a permission which grants the Town hall of the National District and the Intrant In the so -called area of access restricted (CZAR). The agents were placed in the distribution of the Luperón and diverted towards the elevated of that same avenue to the trailers and patanas that left the port of Haina.
The vehicles of loading that they ran along all the Pier From the port of Haina to Santo Domingo, they were forced to travel, uploading Luperón Avenue to the John F. Kennedy and then taking Josefa Brea Street, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez Avenue until connecting with the port on Francisco Alberto Caamaño Avenue Delñó or Avenida del Puerto.
The application of the measure caused a flow abnormal of vehicles of load on Luperón Avenue and John F. Kennedy.
In front of the floating bridge the agents of the Digesett They asked for documents to Truckers And those who had the permission They could continue, but the others forced them to return. The authorities are determined to enforce the Ordinance 14-2021 approved by the councilors.
Some drivers were supervised with Fines of 1,500 pesos for violating the disposition of the ordinance of 2021 and that its application was resumed on January 31. It was not reported how many inspections and have made from January 31 to date.
Miguel Matos, coordinator of the National Federation of Transport Dominican (Fenatrado) said the situation is creating chaos due to lack of coordination between the authorities, the carriers and companies.
“We understand that there are thousands of units of trucks that transport merchandise to different companies that are in the district and must also be agreed with entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are an affected part because it does not take the raw material to companies. It is with the trucks That they take, it is not a helicopter that we are going to carry or by plane, it is in trucks“He emphasized.
The carriers
On the other hand, Ramón Liriano and Santos Rodríguez Soler, two Truckers independent explained that they requested the permission of circulation to Intrant via internet, but now they can’t have access to the page.
Another difficulty is that for Town hall I give them a permission They must present the tuition with the name of the vehicle owner, but they don’t have them because they are trucks financed that until they pay completely they cannot obtain the tuition definitive and your name.
Ordinance 14-2021 establishes in its first article letter B the area of access restricted in the National District limited by Avenidas Paseo de los Reyes Católicos, Republic of Colombia, Luperón and Río Ozama.
Indicates that the passage of vehicles heavy from more than 3 axes from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon and those that can circulate will be by issuing a permission which will be digital in the official portal of the Intrant wave Town hall. They may circulate without requiring permission From eight o’clock at night to six in the morning.
Drivers must present the following documents: tuition of the vehicle, safe, company and origin-origin of the load.
The vehicles of six axes or more the permission It will be limited and only granted to the companies that are within the area of access restricted.
