Our good friend Umar Marwat sends this photo to be shared at ATP. Maintenance crew is seen using construction cones as hats on Motorway M2 (also see here and here). I wish the company who has hired this staff can atleast provide them with decent hats to save themselves from breeze and sun.
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Salams. You guys are ignoring the possibility that the truck might have a number plate but only at the front … (not the back). Regards, Omar
The truck in the picture represents the typical Contractor’s Truck, this type of moving vehicles are commonly used in Pakistan by Construction & Maintenance Contractors to hook-up mobile welding machines/generators etc. and no registered number plates are required for limited designated site areas in Pakistan. The workers in the picture are not wearing safety helmets but covered their heads with traffic warning /reroute signs and those are required to place on the road for warning/caution the coming traffic during maintenance of road
While people are commenting on the riders and existence of safety laws, one detail has been missed. The truck does not have any registration number. This means that most probably the truck belongs to a governmental agency. If it belonged to a private enterprise or was a hired one it would probably show some company name or a logo or local art etc. On close scrutiny one can see the material belongs to the Motorway itself. The machinery is most probably a mobile generator for welding. The material is clearly the one used on motorway for low ‘fences’ (suggest a better word here). Additionally the truck may be carrying poles.
Few national organizations, besides MNCs, probably do have and follow safety laws and practices.
Local Halloween … wow nice catch :)
OSHA type body in Pakistan? I don’t know I find humor in that question.
On a side, the truck in the picture is a Bedford truck seen on every road and highway in Pakistan. I would like to know if this model is still being prduced. I wonder how the economy of the country would fare if this specific truck was taken away from the roads. It numbers in thousands and does major hauling both at the macro and micro level. Going by memory, I never saw this truck, often overloaded to the max , do more than 80km/hr on the highway. In the mid 90s, I remember, there was a growing competition from Isuzu and Hino to Bedford but its numbers never seemed to dwindle. Any one has any takes on its basic 6 cylinder diesel (I think it is 3000 cc) engine?