MORE AARTO DELAYS

The Administrative
Adjudication of Road
Traffic Offences (Aarto)
system is due to start
soon, but once again no
fixed date has yet been
announced, according
to Gavin Kelly, technical
and operations manager
of the Road Freight
Association (RFA).
That, at least, is what
he has heard on the
governmental grapevine.
The latest on the RFA’s
interaction with the
department of transport
(DoT) is that answers are
still awaited from that
body.
“We met with them
about three weeks ago,”
said Kelly, “and told them
to finish the tasks we had
given them before we
moved forward. But we
are once again awaiting
their completion of these
requests.”
So it's more of
the same, “Aarto is
imminent” but no fixed
date yet.
The big problem is
that the infrastructure –
both locally at municipal
level, and nationally
– just doesn’t exist,
according to the RFA.