NONE WILL BE SPARED
Tanroads warns transporters against overloading
By Fatima I. Bapumia

REACTING to transporters’ complaints about heavy fees charged for overloading, Tanzania National Road Agency has insisted the fees are fair and correspond to the road damage due to overloading.
TANROADS’ drive against overloading has already produced dramatic results, with the number of vehicles found overloaded falling to six per cent in June this year from the 40 per cent recorded when the Agency was formed in 2000.
“The fees are neither too high nor too low and they are believed to be a fair compensation for the damage caused through overloading,” said TANROADS’ Chief Executive Dr. F.Y. Addo Abeid in an exclusive interview with The Express this week.
According to him, the highest fee paid to date for overloading is Tsh. 25 million!
He insisted the overloading fees by TANROADS comply with the guidelines given for SADC Region and said, “to look beyond our neighbours, they are higher than those allowed in the United States and Japan and comparable to those in Europe.”

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