Overloaded vehicles at issue

5 July 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Aid and development / Economy and commerce
ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / axle-load control program / Cambodia / Cambodian Trucking Association / overloaded vehicles / Rehabilitation / roads / Rural economy / Shihiru Date / Sok Chheang / Technical Assistance Package / Weigh Stations

Overloaded vehicles are contributing to a more rapid than anticipated deterioration of Cambodia’s road network, experts said yesterday. “The cost of overloading causes problems to everyone involved, but it is easy to control damage if we have good system in place. This is the only instrument we have to stop it,” said Asian Development Bank Senior Transport Specialist Shihiru Date on the sidelines of a conference on the issue yesterday. The ADB has funded an axle-load control programme as part of a US$1 million technical assistance package to support government rehabilitation of about 150 kilometres of the Kingdom’s roads.

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