Category:Skid Marks
2013 – done and dusted
Trucks don’t get a holiday – they can’t. So it’s up to everyone sharing the roads – truckers, holiday makers and pedestrians – to...
Painted into a corner not of her own making
With government now ever closer to getting its way with the implementation of e-tolls, the good intentions of our new minister of transport are,...
And that’s how the fight started …
Perhaps no other object has been the cause of such advancement, achievement, devastation and tragedy all at once as the humble wheel.
Hail the truck driver
“How do you do, the things that you do? No one I know could ever keep up with you …” pop duo Roxette sang...
Are we ever going to get it right?
A new minister of transport is sure to lead to more wasted time and no implementation of policy.
How to have your cake AND eat it …
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral), through its e-tolls, thinks it will have it both ways.
Driving with trucks
Vehicles of all sizes sharing the road can be a scary prospect, even more so when we all forget the basics
Is oversight being overlooked in favour of profit?
Every year the Department of Transport generates a huge surplus, but does this translate into better services and facilities for those who fund it?...
The Clarion call
A clarion call, says the Cambridge dictionary, is a very clear message or instruction about what action is needed. Something must have happened while...
14 000 dead. And we have a plan?
Despite many “plans” over the last two decades, road safety levels in South Africa have continued to decline post-1994 – with horrific effect. So...
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