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.
