QC govt revokes truck ban exemptions, stops moonlighting cops

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QUEZON City traffic czar Ariel Inton has revoked all exemptions to the city’s truck ban issued under the administration of former mayor Herbert Bautista.

The move came after several truck operators given the privilege purportedly so these could carry out public works projects were caught deploying the vehicles for private purposes, the Philippine Daily Inquirer said in a report.

“If they [truck drivers] will be apprehended and they show an exemption I didn’t sign, it will not be honored,” the Inquirer quoted Inton as saying.

Inton heads the Task Force for Transport and Traffic Management created by incumbent mayor Joy Belmonte.

Inton said the exemptions would be revoked indefinitely until the concerned government agencies could confirm that these truck operators are involved in public projects, the Inquirer said.

It also quoted Inton as saying that all traffic enforcers in Quezon City are now banned from moonlighting as escorts for funeral processions, said to be a lucrative line of work given the large number of funeral parlors in the city.

Inton said the practice had proliferated to the point where more enforcers were watching the dead rather than monitoring traffic, according to the Inquirer.