Road maintenance staff under the Stanger Cost Centre have started the year with high morale following the receipt of two additional tip-trucks purchased by the Department.
For quite some time the Cost Centre relied on hired machines to do maintenance work on gravel roads. This came with high costs to the Department.
Acting Cost Centre Manager Thami Khumalo says that they are relieved and grateful to the Department that they now have their own trucks to service the community of KwaDukuza and surroundings.
“We are indeed grateful that after a long wait we finally have our own machines we will use as often as we like without having to worry about the high costs of hiring.”
“The department had a contract with a hiring company and the machines used to come with drivers who would be operating them. But the departmental drivers have since received training on how to operate the new vehicles,” says Khumalo.
The purchase of the two trucks follows that of an excavator machine which the Cost Centre received last year. Pictured is one of the new trucks.
The Cost Centre is responsible for the maintenance of 1400 kilometres of gravel roads around KwaDukuza.
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