Truckers deny hand in latest attacks but vows protests: While the truck driver’s forum says it has nothing to do with the latest attack on trucks on the N3 at Van Reenen’s Pass yesterday morning, it is threatening to intensify protest action against…
Six trucks were torched in the early hours of Sunday in what the Road Freight Association has described as a “co-ordinated attack”.one of the trucks in the queue at the N3 Concession Plaza had come under attack by occupants of a white vehicle who had forced it to a stop, opened fire on it and then burnt it.The RFA said the costs of the damage including the cargo could run between R18m and R60m.
RFA CEO Gavin Kelly also said the critical things from the task team implementation plans had not yet been implemented, adding that had they been implemented “I don’t think we would be where we are today”. On the issue of the recent attack on trucks, Kelly described it as “worrying”, adding that at this point, no group has taken responsibility for the attack.
He said in the past the ATDF and its affiliates “quite often acknowledged” that they were behind the attacks, but were denying taking in yesterday’s one.
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