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January 21, 2005
Truck driver not allowed to rest? Duh?
I found this at LoneStar. and continued to clicked on the article in The Star about the truck driver who was fined for overstaying on the highway.
His problem? He drove on the highway for one hour and used the Sungai Perak rest area for about 2 hours.
Plus asked that he should explain why he used the highway for 3 hours instead of the usual 2. Man, the math is in the statment - one plus two is three.
Why the two hours? He rested. May be he was tired, may be he was hungry - he probably wanted to fullfill his needs. That is the offer of a rest area, isn't it? What does Plus expect? That he speeds off, after a short while, to make it on time to the tollbooth? Despite being hungry and tired?
Do they want him to fall asleep on the stirring wheel, and have a major accident?
The worse part actually is that he should explain to Plus, why he used the highway for such a long time. Company-centric thinking, once again.
Posted by Andreas at January 21, 2005 11:32 AM
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Heck, I could have saved loads with parking tickets this way.
Posted by: mdmafia at January 24, 2005 04:21 PM
Vince, Thanks for a great response. This could really be the case, but than, it still punishes the innocent.
Thanks, Guy, that is just what I was feeling as well!
Posted by: Andreas at January 21, 2005 10:44 PM
There's a more logical explanation which I have heard from lorry drivers.
Assume one lorry has to drive from Subang - JB. He collects the toll ticket from the Subang exit. If he uses the ticket to enter JB, he has to pay more than RM30 (I think). Instead, he waits for an accomplice, or someone from the same company who has to make a delivery from JB-Subang. When the friend makes the exit from JB, they swap toll tickets along the highway. The guy from Subang pays very little to enter JB, cause he has the JB exit ticket, and likewise with the guy from JB who enters Subang, because his friend gave him the Subang exit ticket.
Thats where the discrepency in time comes in. Assuming the time was stamped at 10am, and it takes 1 hour to get to whereever he was going, he should have reached that place at 11am. But, he travelled another 1 hour to where he wanted to get off, and made the swap with his friend at 12pm. The friend then had to travel one hour to that toll booth and got there at 1pm.
I think PLUS would have been alright with it if it were ordianary cars, but this was a tow truck, and they probably do it everyday, saving loads of money. PLUS is very well aware of this sceme.
Posted by: vincent at January 21, 2005 06:46 PM
tsk tsk.makes you think that these people value profit rather than human lives.
Posted by: guy at January 21, 2005 01:14 PM