They're still flouting the rules
The following article was published in The New Paper on 23 June 2010.
They're still flouting the rules
By Kenneth Goh
The New Paper, 23 June 2010
Photo credit: TNP. Reproduced photo caption: HEIGHTENED DANGER: These foreign workers, spotted sitting on stools and plastic chairs or perched on equipment and wooden crates, could be seriously hurt if the lorries swerve.
Less than 12 hours after the horrific accident and less than 100m away, lorry drivers ferrying foreign workers were seen tempting fate and flouting the law.
Some workers sat on stools or plastic chairs n the lorries. Others were perched on piles of equipment and wooden crates.
This is against Land Transport Authority rules.
They were seated too high - their shoulders were well above the side-railings - putting them in peril should the vehicle swerve or be involved in an accident.
The New Paper team spent 30 minutes keeping a lookout during the evening rush hour at an overhead bridge near Catholic Junior College on the PIE.
And in that short time, we saw that seven of the 62 lorries which passed by ignored the LTA regulations.
Workers on one lorry slept on stacks of tools, blissfully unaware that they could die at any turn.
On another lorry, a few workers barely had enough sitting room. They were sandwiched between large metal pieces, pipes and a ladder.
One lorry carried 10 stacks of plastic chairs. Each stack had more than 30 chairs.
Under the towering stacks: three workers.
Two were on their backs fast asleep, while the other worker was squeezed in between the equipment on the cargo deck.
The lorries ferried an average of eight workers each. The workers were usually seated on the floor of the deck and leaning against the side railing.
Some had ample room to stretch their legs, but most sat with their legs crossed.
In one lorry, three workers were squeezed shoulder to shoulder.
They occupied only a small portion of the lorry's cargo deck, which was mostly filled with potted plants and bags of soil.
They're still flouting the rules
By Kenneth Goh
The New Paper, 23 June 2010
Photo credit: TNP. Reproduced photo caption: HEIGHTENED DANGER: These foreign workers, spotted sitting on stools and plastic chairs or perched on equipment and wooden crates, could be seriously hurt if the lorries swerve.
Less than 12 hours after the horrific accident and less than 100m away, lorry drivers ferrying foreign workers were seen tempting fate and flouting the law.
Some workers sat on stools or plastic chairs n the lorries. Others were perched on piles of equipment and wooden crates.
This is against Land Transport Authority rules.
They were seated too high - their shoulders were well above the side-railings - putting them in peril should the vehicle swerve or be involved in an accident.
The New Paper team spent 30 minutes keeping a lookout during the evening rush hour at an overhead bridge near Catholic Junior College on the PIE.
And in that short time, we saw that seven of the 62 lorries which passed by ignored the LTA regulations.
Workers on one lorry slept on stacks of tools, blissfully unaware that they could die at any turn.
On another lorry, a few workers barely had enough sitting room. They were sandwiched between large metal pieces, pipes and a ladder.
One lorry carried 10 stacks of plastic chairs. Each stack had more than 30 chairs.
Under the towering stacks: three workers.
Two were on their backs fast asleep, while the other worker was squeezed in between the equipment on the cargo deck.
The lorries ferried an average of eight workers each. The workers were usually seated on the floor of the deck and leaning against the side railing.
Some had ample room to stretch their legs, but most sat with their legs crossed.
In one lorry, three workers were squeezed shoulder to shoulder.
They occupied only a small portion of the lorry's cargo deck, which was mostly filled with potted plants and bags of soil.
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