The small number of gas stations currently do not have the capacity to supply 100% of the transport fleet every day. Carriers affirm that between 30% and 35% of the total volume are supplied daily
Carriers warn that they will go on strike in protest of the episodes of violence that occurred on Tuesday, April 26, in the last meeting held with authorities, said the secretary of the Interunion Transport Command, José Luis Trocel.
“We held a meeting and agreed with Minister Hipólito Abreu that an official would explain about Veticket and fuel. Two deputies and the president of the Caracas Metro union arrived, when we gave them the right to speak so that they could explain to us, what they did was harangue motorists who do not belong to the federation requesting elections. The situation became inflamed, they hit fellow carriers and that generated outrage. That’s why it’s zero hour,” Trocel explained in an interview with Radio Union.
The union representative warned that if there is no response and rectification, the protest will escalate to another level that would involve street actions.
He explained that it can be a staggered strike or even a march. He pointed out that the protest measure will be defined in an assembly that is already scheduled. She said that a document will also be delivered to Vice President Delcy Rodríguez with some requests. She did not specify what they will ask the official for.
The next assembly will be held between May 18 and 23 in Lara state.
In an interview with Vanessa Davies for the program where we go from Radio UnionTrocel stated that more than 50% of units are paralyzed due to lack of fuel.
more stations
For his part, the director of the Venezuelan Chamber of Extra-Urban Transport Companies and Director of the Inter-Guild Transport Command, Fernando Mora, assured that the union’s request is that they operate more service stations.
“What is being asked for? That there be more stations, that PDVSA send more fuel to the stations already assigned. That is the real claim and not that a transport stoppage is planned; I totally deny that, what there is is discomfort, a pressure measure is to put zero hour on it to see if the authorities agree and coordinate”, he explained.
Mora reiterated that the discontent is caused by the vicissitudes of fuel suffered by carriers in the interior of the country.
“Unfortunately in the interior, some governorates, some authorities do not comply with that, but instead supply a state agency or provide support to other institutions, which reduces the volume of fuel needed by the sector,” he said.
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Mora asked for more service stations, not only in the urban sector, but also in the interurban sector, “we request 14 stations nationwide, on the trunk lines.”
Of the 14 stations mentioned, only four to five fuel pumps are operating. He pointed out that the interurban lines are willing to pay 0.20 cents in exchange for being able to fill up at any station that has diesel.
The promise that is not fulfilled
The administration of Nicolás Maduro started 2022 with the promise to open all service stations to the transportation sector. The approach was to allow drivers to obtain fuel without limitations at any of the pumps. The small number of stations currently do not have the capacity to supply 100% of the fleet every day. Carriers affirm that around 30% or 35% of the total volume is supplied daily.
The approach made by the Executive was to allow drivers to obtain fuel without limitations at any of the pumps.
This modality would be carried out after the carriers were registered in the Patria System. Yilmar Jiménez comments that the modality was going to be implemented from the first of February, but due to system failures, the activation of the modality has been delayed.
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