Imphal, October 27: Although the transporters and State Police Department have come to an agreement on the rules to be followed with regard to providing escort while plying along the Imphal-Dimapur Road (National Highway 39) during a joint meeting yesterday, 118 LGP carrier trucks remained stranded at Koirengei today demanding a separate escort party for them.




The LPG carriers which were left stranded after the security escorts provided to them sped off leaving them in the lurch

Talking to mediapersons, the drivers of the LGP carrier trucks stationed at Koirengei airfield informed that they were waiting at Mantripukhri today morning when an escort party went ahead after telling them to follow.

However, the escort party was nowhere to be seen when they arrived at Sekmai, thus compelling them to demand for a separate escort party for the LPG carriers.

�Even if a separate escort can be arranged, we are willing to be accommodated among the petroleum tankers.

Otherwise, we won�t ply the vehicles�, they stated firmly.

Explaining their stand, the truck drivers said that they have to carry the LPG cylinders whether filled or empty to and fro the journey.

So it is difficult for them to catch up with other empty vehicles/trucks leaving from Imphal.

On top of this, the escort party have never taken care of the LPG carriers in the past, they alleged.

�In view of this difficulty, either a separate escort party should be arranged or we should be accommodated among the petroleum tankers�, the aggrieved LPG truck drivers stated resolutely.

It may be noted that representatives of All Manipur Road Transport Drivers and Motor Workers� Union and other transporter bodies yesterday held a meeting with the officials of the Police Department in a bid to resolve the problems being faced by the transporters in plying along the stretch of National Highway 39 from Imphal to Dimapur and laid down certain traffic rules to be followed by all the transporters.

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