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Romanian Transport Min Blasts Transporters For Poor Road Quality

Romanian transport companies are the ones bringing the most damage to roads, and some of them don’t pay road toll, put too much cargo in their trucks and "are the first ones to complain about the bad roads," said transport minister Radu Berceanu in a press conference.
Romanian Transport Min Blasts Transporters For Poor Road Quality
13 mai 2009, 13:36, English

"They (the transporters) are the first ones to bring a great deal of damage to roads and most of them don’t pay road tolls, and they have schemes through which they put excessive cargo in trucks, and in the meantime they complain that there aren’t any good roads and highways. We will have national roads and highways in Romania when we take care of the ones we have and get used to the idea that everyone pays for the use of the road," Berceanu said.

He added the payment of the road toll is performed incorrectly and only 25%-30% of transporters compelled to pay do so, while the rest choose to travel without road toll stickers.

"I believe we need to introduce systems for the inspection of the road toll because only 25%-30% of those compelled to pay buy the sticker," the minister said.