Incheon City Strengthens Management of Unqualified Drivers to Prevent Cargo Truck Traffic Accidents

Incheon City announced on the 17th that it will strengthen the management of unqualified drivers to prevent cargo truck traffic accidents.

The city plans to introduce a real-time monitoring system that shares data on unqualified cargo truck drivers in cooperation with 10 districts and counties, as well as the Korea Transportation Safety Authority.

This is to improve the difficulty in identifying unqualified drivers due to delays in reflecting changes in transportation workers in the management system.

Currently, the history of transportation workers is entered and managed in the Transportation Worker Management System. This system manages changes such as business closure, transfer, acquisition of transportation companies, and detailed driving inspection history.

The city also plans to thoroughly manage the refresher training for cargo truck transportation workers operated by the Incheon Transportation Corporation Traffic Training Center, ensuring all eligible individuals complete the training.

The city held a meeting with related organizations such as the Korea Transportation Safety Authority and the Cargo Truck Association the day before to discuss measures for managing unqualified drivers.

There are 21,695 cargo transportation workers active in Incheon, of whom 426 (2%) are unqualified workers. This is the second highest rate of unqualified workers among the 17 metropolitan cities and provinces nationwide, following Busan (4.4%).

Additionally, last year, there were 9 fatalities in business-use cargo truck traffic accidents in Incheon, a slight decrease from 12 the previous year, but accounting for 10.7% of all traffic accidents and 45.8% of business-use vehicle accidents.

Cargo truck [Photo by Asia Economy]

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