After reaching agreements with the unions of heavy cargo carriers to lift the indefinite strike at the national level, the Minister of Transport and Communications, Nicholas Bustamanteannounced that his sector will present a regulatory project to eliminate the examination of rules for revalidation processes of driving licenses.
“About the absence of expiration of the professional driver’s license It basically refers to the category AIII-B driver’s license on which the ministry will present a regulatory project that will include the elimination of the examination of rules for revalidation processes, requiring only the medical examination for drivers over 50 years of age and who do not have violations pending payment. Likewise, it has also been agreed that they will take a training course in accordance with the framework of the national traffic regulations.”he detailed at a press conference.
at another time, Bustamante He gave details on the five points discussed with the unions of heavy cargo carriers.
“In the first point, referring to equal conditions in the international transport service in the case of Bolivia and Ecuador, the central issue here is that Within 2 days, the PCM will establish which entity should be in charge of controlling the vehicles that enter from Bolivia and Ecuador that are exempted.
He added that, in the second point, referring to the obligatory nature of the cargo reservation and table of reference values, the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) -within 10 days- will prepare a report that will be presented at a next I work with carriers.
“Which is referred to the application of some devices, their probable approval and their modification if necessary”.
“The third point is referred to the review of highway concession contracts and tolls and non-payment where the roads are in a poor state of passability. In this regard, within the current framework, the MTC is going to request that Ositran -immediately- intervene in it and with respect to the tolls that are under the administration of the ministry -through Provías- The respective actions will be taken from Monday to the effect that the carriers’ request can be met.”
Finally, the Minister of Transport pointed out The Superintendence of Land Transportation of People, Cargo and Merchandise (Sutran) will be restructured.