Senator Antonio Marte urged the government to order public transport drivers to be subject to routine anti-doping tests to purge drivers effectively.
Marte says the tests should be mandatory and covered by the government. He says it is costly for private passenger and cargo companies to constantly carry out the doping tests to those who drive public transport vehicles, trucks, freighters and other heavy vehicles.
Conatra is the main owner of the National Confederation of Transportation Organizations (Conatra), a major public transport association. He wants the government to fit the bill for the tests.
“You cannot give a person who has a head full of cocaine, a bus with 90 passengers that costs more than 40 million pesos, because that means a sure accident, loss of human lives and loss of a vehicle,” said Marte.
The current congressman for the province of Santiago Rodriguez, considered that these tests should be mandatory and coordinated by the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant).
He revealed that there are unions of drivers that if they are drug tested, would easily be left without drivers.
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21 June 2023