Driver 38 AprMay 2016

Top Drivers Wanted

Express Link Cargo SA

needs seven Code 8, 1 0 & 1 4 Truck drivers. Must have valid license with PDP, and 3 years experience.

R1 8,000/m to R29,500/m plus travel expenses.

Call Job Placements on 011 021 0685 , Recruiter: Zigo Job Ref: 741 ab

Diplomat Distributors is

looking for Truck Drivers to deliver FMCG. Must have Gr 1 0 or highter and 5 years Code 1 0 driving experience or more.

Must work from Durban.

Call 086 1 99 9963.

Truck driver needed in Mitchells Plain, Cape Flats. Drive shifts from 4 am to 11 am.

R4000-R4500 Contact 083 9865 047.

Retired person with C1 licence, PDP and 5 years experience needed in Primrose. Must know the East Rand. Must be of sober habits.E-mail CV to m8rketing@gmail.com7 The Driver subscribes to the SA Press Code that prescribes news that is truthful, accurate, fair and balanced. If we don’t live up to the code please contact the Press Ombudsman on 011-484 3512/8 or on ombudsman@presscouncil.org.za.

News to inspire professional drivers of all size vehicles in southern Africa

Nr 38, April-May 201 6

What to do about boy racers in their cars SAMUEL MAKHATHINI IT is every hazchem driver's nighmare, car drivers who race past only to brake hard under your nose.

This happened again down Townhill on the N3 on Monday 25 April, when a young man in a white Tazz ignored the roadwork signs and raced past a tanker. Eye-witness Rajsh Singh wrote to The Witness that the Tazz then clipped a Bobcact, slewing in front of the tanker.

The ensuing crash and explosions killed two and critically injured four more and closed the southbound highway for the next 24 hours.

As always happens after a major crash such as this, truck drivers were collectively blamed for all crashes ever made, with the usual calls for trucks to be taken off the highway.

We say it is not truckers, but impatient drivers in cars and taxis who cause most crashes.

For the reality is that over 6,000 trucks drive on the N3 highway every day, with on average three trucks "falling" somewhere along the road on a 24 hour period, typically on Van Reenen's Pass on

on the long sleep-inducing stretch past Warden. This low accident rate is due to the fact that South Africa's truckers officially rank among the top ten safest drivers in the world in international competitions.

Before I retired, I myself was ranked a top driver in Africa and North America by the fuel company I delivered for. Eshowe's ownerdriver Regie Naidoo represented South Africa against the world's Volvo drivers in Sweden.

At Manline, Nduna Chari was selected by German company MAN to promote their latest truck through nine African states, covering a total distance of 13,234 kms.

And most recently Daimkler Group has confirmed Marshall Hendricks (30) from Imperial Fast’n Fresh in Cape Town, has achieved the highest score of 9,95 out of a possible 10 in the 2015 FleetBoard Drivers’ League, the best score in over 19 000 drivers in 18 countries who took part in the competition.

Fire fighters fought all day to dose the flames from a

To South Africa we say slow truckers aren't the main problem, fast car and and impatient taxi drivers are!

tanker crash caused by a fool in a Tazz who ignored road works signs and raced past a truck only to have to brake hard in front of it.

Photo: Townhill Comunity Policing Forum

Fleet management 'mostly a part time job'

Driver salaries in SA in April Centurion company offers R6,500 to R7,000/m to code 1 4 driver in GP. Germiston construction company wants tipper drivers at the SEIFSA rate of R51 .77 per hour, (up to about R11 ,000/m).

Kempton Park company offers R1 2,000/m to Code 1 4 drivers with 2 yrs experience.

Kurgersdorp firm offers R1 3,000/m plus medical aid and pension fund to long distance drivers with 6 yrs experience.

Rustenburg company offers R1 4,000 to Code 1 0 and 1 4 drivers for local and long distance, with penalities for late delivery.

East Rand supplier offers R1 7,000/m drivers wth two years super link experience and who are able to work flexi hours and who knows the East Rand, West Rand, Vereeniging and Pretoria.

With proper training, half these accidents could have been prevented, as over 40 of the fleets surveyed have never conducted road safety awareness training for their drivers.

The research strongly suggests that fleet management in SA is mostly a part-time activity. Most of the fleet managers interviewed have as their main duties accounting, human resources management and office administration functions.

When asked what their main preoccupations were when it

SHARING THE BOUNTY

SINCE small beginnings over 35 years ago, Balers founder Abu-Baker Tayob has seen his company grow into Bakers SA Limited. Last week, the broadly smiling patriarch was one of three generations who marked the handover of 1 01 new Actros trucks, the biggest consignment of trucks yet for the company.

As is the norm of this devout Ayob family, the ceremony opened with a supplication to God Almighty to grant the company “barakah�, so that the staff could continue sharing the bounty with their family, community and area.

came to their fleet management duties, most respondents said keeping down cost and stopping fraud and theft.

Mobilitas say the best flaat mamangers are also concerened with the social, environmental and economic impact, not only productivity and profitability.

Excellence in fleet management, the researchers propose, has at least four pillars: managing the risks facing the fleet, managing the people who operate the fleet, managing the impact of the fleet on the environment and

managing the administrative systems of the fleet.

The South African industry average score for vehicle management and driver management stands at 35%, and comes in only marginally higher for environmental and road traffic safety management at 38% each.

Less than half of the poorly rated fleets kept a driving licence and vehicle register, only 35% had their vehicles insured for business, and a paltry 17% inspected their grey vehicles.

Former SA top driver and Bakers driver trainer Ismail Khan said Bakers drivers (shown on the right) moved the trucks in tranches stretching over three days to avoid putting undue pressure on the N3.

Contact the drivers at The Driver News by e-mail on thedriverdigest@gmail.com. see more on www.drivernews.co.za

Cape Town fleet operator offers R22,000 to 25,000/m to link drivers wth 2 yrs experience.

April-May 2016

ONE in three fleets owners in South Africa have no daily management policy for their vehicles or drivers.

This is the shock finding from research conducted by Mobilitas iand Standard Bank Fleet Management. They interviews a small but broadly representative sample of 61 fleets, totalling just over 21,000 vehicles.

Showing how dangerous SA's roads are, the 21,000 trucks had 469 collisions in the preceding year, with 7 people killed and 12 seriously injured.