Leszek Socha referred to the article Plague of Overtaking Trucks on the A4 and S8. Fines Were Handed Out.
The authorities have taken the side of the perpetrators of a series of road offences—mainly road hooligans, or road criminals, who are very often passenger-car drivers, comments the columnist.
The authorities and the creators of many road regulations have shown a lack of imagination, knowledge of traffic engineering, and even basic understanding of the specifics of heavy transport and the people working in it. Added to these inventions are a complete lack of empathy and the inclination of Polish parliamentarians to break traffic laws on Polish roads, which has long since been proven.
A lack of prudence in creating such destructive legislation leads to further divisions in society and sets social and professional groups against one another, in order to divert attention from incompetence in running the state. When I hear that the “irresponsible minister” responsible for this area of the economy and public life will send additional patrols onto the roads—and no minister in this country is responsible for anything, hence this freedom in pseudo-solutions—I ask: why? To punish drivers because they have to arrive on time at the contracted destination with the goods they are transporting?
For this reason, young drivers are leaving the profession. Staff shortages are enormous, because nobody wants to be punished in addition to making an effort. How proud the inspector is to have imposed so many penalties. This solution is simply STUPID! Who is most bothered by overtaking trucks? Cars travelling at speed—regardless of who is inside them, I know that my reaction has repeatedly saved the lives of these hard-working, hurried, important drivers.
The authorities are not concerned with safety on the roads, only with revenue from fines. Prevention has deliberately been abandoned in favour of profit and an increase in tragic incidents on the roads. If there were regular—I repeat, regular—patrols on the roads, the number of incidents and traffic offences would be reduced. The state bears responsibility for this situation and for the deaths of people on the roads—no one else. The proposed and implemented solutions merely shift the governing authorities’ responsibility onto road users.
Systemic solutions are necessary, such as expanding roads and parking facilities, because if we slow traffic down, professional drivers are subject to time restrictions. They have to take a break somewhere so as not to hurt the feelings of fools who are outraged because a truck driver stopped somewhere.
Regulations concerning trucks must focus on improving the movement of trucks on the roads, rather than being created to satisfy road hooligans, because that was at the root of parliamentary stupidity. Let us start electing MPs instead of approving the permanent candidacies of the same people.