‘Set up resting place for heavy vehicles traversing state’

New Sabah Times 24th July, 2007
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board (CLVB) is proposing that a proper resting place be set up to cater for heavy vehicles traversing the State.
Its chairman Datuk Bung Moktar Radin said that his office would write to the Transport Ministry to get an approval.
Speaking to reporters here yesterday, he said there was no proper resting spot for heavy vehicle drivers in Sabah.
“Many of these drivers have no choice but to pull alongside the roads that has sufficient road shoulder space to rest,” he said that these vehicles also posed danger to other road users.
Bung Moktar said that LPKP was look at building three stop points between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, Sandakan-Tawau and Kota Kinabalu-Brunei/Sarawak.
He added that these resting spots could also be utilized by other road users who are traveling long distances though the concern was more to heavy vehicle drivers.
While the LPKP discouraged heavy vehicle drivers from parking their vehicles along road shoulders indiscriminately, he said it was also concerned with their plight.