Transport minister Sibusiso Ndebele has welcomed Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu) stand on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act. This comes after taxi drivers marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria earlier this month in protest against the Act. The march was organised by South African Transport and Allied Workers’ [...]
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A national fleet manager of a retail furniture group has to budget an extra R1.2m just that his company can check truck drivers’ demerit points once every month. This is only one of the additional expenses that he faces when the controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) traffic [...]
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[Media Release by Justice Project South Africa] JOHANNESBURG – The controversial AARTO Act and its associated points-demerit system is once again in the news and now SATAWU is also taking the matter to task. Justice Project South Africa (JPSA) is astounded to see that even large and mighty organisations are being blindly ignored by the [...]
The main purpose of the AARTO pilot since July 2008 in the municipality of Tshwane and February 2009 in Johannesburg was to, amongst others, test all the various systems, procedures and processes that are utilized in the daily operations, identify weaknesses and deficiencies with the view to develop and apply remedial measures. These related to [...]
The Arrive Alive website has received an interesting email titled “AARTO AND YOUR BUSINESS” This was written by Jan du Toit and deals with the impact that AARTO might have on the employer, his employee and his business. We would like to share this along with the response received from the RTMC – having referred [...]
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We decided to provide greater clarity on the demerit system and specifically the effect thereof on speeding offences! There are many hoax emails doing the rounds about AARTO and the demerit system. Some of these claim that the demerit system has started and others that you will lose demerit points if you exceed the limit [...]
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This question was sent to the Arrive Alive website yesterday. We would like to share the answer provided by one of the Experts from the RTMC: “The Demerit Point part of AARTO will follow after the implementation of AARTO (Penalty Payment part) countrywide. The National Minister of Transport already indicated that he would like to [...]
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RTMC Media Release: The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) maintain and would like to affirm to all net surfers that the official and legitimate the AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) information can be obtained from www.aartoSA.co.za. The same information can also attained from the RTMC website (www.rtmc.co.za) via the web link. As a [...]
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Please note: The Annual Road Transport Legislation Workshops of Alta Swanepoel & Associates will be presented in May 2010 – Information to follow within the next few weeks. The AARTO Act is being rolled out across South Africa in 2010. Make sure you understand and comply with the Act to avoid expensive penalties or disqualification [...]
Since yesterday the Arrive Alive website received a few emails with questions pertaining to the start of the demerit system. Examples of such questions are: Question “I received an email this morning stating that the new demerit system is in place as of today. Can you clarify if this is true or not?” “Do you know if [...]
