Chief
Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Rudolph
P.K Beckley has called on private and commercial drivers in the country
to submit their vehicles to the authority for assessment.
Speaking
on Radio Gold on Wednesday, Mr. Beckley noted that every driver is duty
bound to make an annual assessment of his/her vehicle with DVLA to
check its road worthiness.
According to him, commercial drivers
are mandated by law to submit their vehicles twice each year for a
thorough examination to ascertain and fix any faults associated with the
vehicles.
“If you are using a vehicle for commercial purposes,
because of the rate of use, you submit the vehicle twice in a year which
means that half-yearly, you submit that vehicle to the authorities for
assessment examination…Private vehicles must go once a year…” he said.
Mr.
Beckley also advised drivers to ensure that their vehicles do not
experience break failures, which according to him, is a key causative
agent of road accidents and they should have fire extinguishers in their
vehicles to avert any possible dangers.
This, he added, is part
of the series of tests that the vehicles will be taken through during
assessment because if a driver does “not have a fire extinguisher in the
vehicle, that vehicle must fail the test.”
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