Blogger on Haulage activities in Nigeria

         A ccording to Marc Amblard Article titled “Will the Future of Mobility be Sustainable?”, all indicato r s are trending towards continued growth in the global demand for mobility. The UN anticipates that the world population will increase from 7.8B to 9.7B in 2050. Urbanization is expected to reach 68% by 2050 vs. 55% today. The number of people who can afford a personal vehicle is constantly increasing. As a result, the global fleet of light vehicles is expected by some to grow from 1.2B today to 1.6B in 2040. In 2017, transportation represented 58% of all the energy consumed on the planet, according to the International Energy Agency .     It is scary the trend we are headed. We must begin to see an alternative route to mitigate this negative trajectory. Early this year I took a free online course offered by University of Leeds themed “Transport Systems: Global issues and Future Innovation” via www.futurelearn.com . It is amaz...

     On the 11th April, 2019 I wrote an article titled “ An urgent need for Truck driving School ”, the motive behind the article is the rampant road traffic crashes caused by articulated vehicles across the country. Statistically, approximately 1.35 million people are killed and 50 million seriously injured due to road crashes annually. Road crashes kill 1 person every 24 seconds — about 3,700 killed a day. In Q2 of 2020 according to the statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics of Nigeria 64% of Road Traffic Crashes(RTC) that occurred were commercial vehicles, 34% of those vehicles are trucks, tankers and trailers. The Statistics also shows that Human factor make up 80.7% of the causes. The shocking revelation was that these accidents occurred during the COVID-19 lock down which means that Heavy Duty Trucks were the main actors in the RTC.   T his is not surprising because of the high rate of illiteracy amongst heavy duty trucks drivers; this has ...