The fleet of brand-new construction vehicles parked for six months outside the Department of Roads and Public Works, in the Grahamstown Industrial Area, is finally being put to use on Eastern Cape roads.
Mvuyisile Goxa, senior manager for In-House Construction, said the fleet would be deployed wherever roads were being built. At present, roads were due to be built in Coffee Bay, Elliotdale, and Cofimvaba, in the former Transkei.
Goxa explained that the construction vehicles were not moved out of Grahamstown in a single day and that the process had started in mid-July. “It has been an ongoing process to move the vehicles to designated sites,” he said. “There might be one or two that are still at the Department of Roads and Public Works, but we are busy delivering them to construction points.”
One of the reasons for the delay in moving the vehicles was that they needed to be inspected and licensed. “The majority of the vehicles have been licensed, hence they are gone,” said Goxa.
The 54 vehicles were bought as part of the department’s three-year recapitalisation programme.
The fleet comprises 18 graders, three dump trucks, five tip trucks, 14 water tankers, eight TLBs (tractor loader backhoes), four loaders, and two transporters, costing more than R26 million.
The equipment was brought from Port Elizabeth to Grahamstown in February.
The fleet of brand-new construction vehicles parked for six months outside the Department of Roads and Public Works, in the Grahamstown Industrial Area, is finally being put to use on Eastern Cape roads.
Mvuyisile Goxa, senior manager for In-House Construction, said the fleet would be deployed wherever roads were being built. At present, roads were due to be built in Coffee Bay, Elliotdale, and Cofimvaba, in the former Transkei.
Goxa explained that the construction vehicles were not moved out of Grahamstown in a single day and that the process had started in mid-July. “It has been an ongoing process to move the vehicles to designated sites,” he said. “There might be one or two that are still at the Department of Roads and Public Works, but we are busy delivering them to construction points.”
One of the reasons for the delay in moving the vehicles was that they needed to be inspected and licensed. “The majority of the vehicles have been licensed, hence they are gone,” said Goxa.
The 54 vehicles were bought as part of the department’s three-year recapitalisation programme.
The fleet comprises 18 graders, three dump trucks, five tip trucks, 14 water tankers, eight TLBs (tractor loader backhoes), four loaders, and two transporters, costing more than R26 million.
The equipment was brought from Port Elizabeth to Grahamstown in February.
