DAMN QUARRY trucks.
On any night, the stretch of the Angeles City Circumferential Road is one road to perdition.
With no less than five trucks at any time clogging the southbound lane at each of the two quarry checkpoints – the first near the Holy Family Academy and the second near Stedar Montessori – all other vehicles had to patiently wait or risk life and limb by overtaking through blind curves.
Yes, these quarry truck drivers have absolutely no sense of the rampa or the road shoulder they ought to take when transacting whatever business at the quarry checkpoints. And may as well damn those quarry checkers too for not telling the drivers to do so.
Damned quarry trucks.
Twice already, hulking northbound quarry trucks – in utter disregard of traffic laws – took my southbound lane, forcing me to seek the graveled safety of the road shoulder, else I would have long been the late lamented Lacson.
Had I my gun on those two occasions, I would most certainly have been Rolito Go twice over. And with enough to spare.
Damned quarry trucks.
Look what they have done to that short stretch from MacArthur Highway to the small bridge coming to Paning’s Butong Pakwan. Bone-jarring, chassis-wrecking, tire-busting craters and crevices all over. And may as well damn the Department of Public Works and Highways too for concreting the way from MacArthur Highway to the craters and leaving the latter as is.
Madness. Sheer madness obtains among these quarry truck drivers. Madness made more severe with the repeal of Ordinance 261.
What now?
“We are very determined to give enough teeth to implement a local anti-overloading ordinance. But the sangguniang panlalawigan will be proceeding cautiously and make the ordinance well rounded enough to be implemented without Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR),” so was quoted SP Member Tars Halili as saying, in reference to the crafting of a better replacement to Ordinance 261.
And to make really sure of that, Halili said that another set of consultation with stakeholders and national government agencies would be conducted to better streamline the ordinance in accordance with Republic Act 8784 or the Anti-Overloading Law.
And, he stressed, stiffer penalties for overloaded quarry trucks and even commercial trucks would be considered in the new ordinance.
So, in the meanwhile, Honorable Board Member, what happens?
The quarry truck drivers allowed free rein to threaten lives and limbs of other motorists, destroy our roads and bridges with overloads, plunder Pampanga’s natural resources!
“We will not tolerate any of our members violating the law.”
So proclaimed Benedicto Lacsamana, the other president of the Federation of Pampanga Truckers Inc.
Seconded his cohort Ariel Laxa: “Appropriate sanctions will be imposed on members violating anti-overloading laws.” This even as they awaited the enactment of the replacement to Ordinance 261.
Sanctions your pompous asses!
So what has the FPTI done in the case of the trucks of one Tayag that were reportedly found overloaded at a quarry checkpoint in Minalin and are now impounded at the provincial engineer’s office?
Damned those quarry trucks.
On any night, the stretch of the Angeles City Circumferential Road is one road to perdition.
With no less than five trucks at any time clogging the southbound lane at each of the two quarry checkpoints – the first near the Holy Family Academy and the second near Stedar Montessori – all other vehicles had to patiently wait or risk life and limb by overtaking through blind curves.
Yes, these quarry truck drivers have absolutely no sense of the rampa or the road shoulder they ought to take when transacting whatever business at the quarry checkpoints. And may as well damn those quarry checkers too for not telling the drivers to do so.
Damned quarry trucks.
Twice already, hulking northbound quarry trucks – in utter disregard of traffic laws – took my southbound lane, forcing me to seek the graveled safety of the road shoulder, else I would have long been the late lamented Lacson.
Had I my gun on those two occasions, I would most certainly have been Rolito Go twice over. And with enough to spare.
Damned quarry trucks.
Look what they have done to that short stretch from MacArthur Highway to the small bridge coming to Paning’s Butong Pakwan. Bone-jarring, chassis-wrecking, tire-busting craters and crevices all over. And may as well damn the Department of Public Works and Highways too for concreting the way from MacArthur Highway to the craters and leaving the latter as is.
Madness. Sheer madness obtains among these quarry truck drivers. Madness made more severe with the repeal of Ordinance 261.
What now?
“We are very determined to give enough teeth to implement a local anti-overloading ordinance. But the sangguniang panlalawigan will be proceeding cautiously and make the ordinance well rounded enough to be implemented without Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR),” so was quoted SP Member Tars Halili as saying, in reference to the crafting of a better replacement to Ordinance 261.
And to make really sure of that, Halili said that another set of consultation with stakeholders and national government agencies would be conducted to better streamline the ordinance in accordance with Republic Act 8784 or the Anti-Overloading Law.
And, he stressed, stiffer penalties for overloaded quarry trucks and even commercial trucks would be considered in the new ordinance.
So, in the meanwhile, Honorable Board Member, what happens?
The quarry truck drivers allowed free rein to threaten lives and limbs of other motorists, destroy our roads and bridges with overloads, plunder Pampanga’s natural resources!
“We will not tolerate any of our members violating the law.”
So proclaimed Benedicto Lacsamana, the other president of the Federation of Pampanga Truckers Inc.
Seconded his cohort Ariel Laxa: “Appropriate sanctions will be imposed on members violating anti-overloading laws.” This even as they awaited the enactment of the replacement to Ordinance 261.
Sanctions your pompous asses!
So what has the FPTI done in the case of the trucks of one Tayag that were reportedly found overloaded at a quarry checkpoint in Minalin and are now impounded at the provincial engineer’s office?
Damned those quarry trucks.
