In a meeting with Congresswoman Patricia Juárez Gallegos
Representatives of the General Transport Confederation requested, this afternoon, exceptionally, Congresswoman Patricia Juárez Gallegos (FP) to channel the request for flexibility in obtaining and recategorizing driver’s licenses, for the public service of urban transport at the national level. national.
The legislator indicated that the objective of the meeting was to find solutions to the public transport problem in Lima and Callao. “I met with the Confederation of Transport, who to date have been suffering from a lack of drivers, because the time to obtain the recategorization of the license takes two to three years, which has meant that they cannot put into service the new vehicles they purchased and that their drivers work double hours.
He argued that this causes dangers and lack of quality service. We are going to review the regulations and talk with the authorities of the sector to solve this problem that affects urban transport, “he said.
In their interventions, the Carrier representatives indicated that the recategorization should be reduced to one year, with the prior approval of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and that the AIIIB or AIIIC licenses should be granted directly, after fulfilling the requirements to be established.
Other requests were that young people who do military service (Army, Navy and Aviation), who drive buses or troop trucks, should be granted the AIIIB and AIIIC license directly through the ATU, fulfilling the requirements , as well as general drivers who have 1 or 2 years of validity on their license, after meeting the requirements, are granted a driver’s license for the use of buses of the public urban passenger transport service.
The president of the General Transport Confederation (CGT), Gregorio Torres Gonzales and the leaders Hugo Rodríguez Aquino, Juan Quispe Huamaní and Ernesto Hurtado Villavicencio participated in the session.