Boycott Trust Transport Co.
It baffles me how a company that has claimed many innocent lives still operates. I personally have boycotted this company long ago and I still wonder how and why people still use their buses, not after so many lives have been lost due to a fault of the company and their buses. how has this company not been sued over and over again many a fold? or has it? I am not sure, but I am pretty sure that this company should stop operating until it replaces its crumbling buses with better ones, and its drivers with more competent ones, and betters its services in general.
I will not go into detail about the tragedies that befell many Jordanian families for we’ve all heard it and seen it and read about it, As Nasim points out: Yesterday’s terrible accident is not the 1st accident happening with buses ran by Trust, but probably the 7th or 8th ever since this company started its operations to and from Aqaba. most of those happening on The Desert highway and Wadi Araba. the latest one was last June on the desert highway. It is worthy to mention that one of the passengers on that buses that crashed on June, was a friend of mine, he experienced a massive head injury and fell into a coma for weeks after which he was incapacitated, and is still a resident of the hospital to this day where he is being treated. I know if he was of my family, I will not rest untill those who are responsible are put behind bars!
However, That is a burden we all share, and we should act as best as we could, Boycott the company and give them a piece of your mind: titc@nets.com.jo
spread the word and let it be heard.
God Bless.
Qwaider قويدر on Mon, 28th Jan 2008 8:58 am
Boycotting is when people can’t do anything about the matter
I say people need to sue them! Complain to the government, and even give out leaflets at the bus stops educating riders that they are travelling with an unsafe company, with a very bad track record
Araba on Mon, 28th Jan 2008 11:17 am
Hey!! thanks…
Anonymous on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 2:54 am
First, I am sorry for your friend. I hope that he gets better.
It’s very easy to sit back and put the blame on others. The cause of this last tragedy is already known; the driver was simply going too fast for the road. The question of course in your mind is “why?”
You might believe what some people have said (like naqeeb el sawwaqeen), that the driver had probably been driving for 10 hours straight before the accident.
You might also believe what some lady said on TV that the driver called the office and said the bus had something wrong in it.
But neither is true. This was the first trip from Aqaba, and the last trip was the night before. The driver had enough time in the rest area to have a full 7-8 hours of sleep.
Second, with all respect to the lady, the records show that no such phone calls were made by the driver to the office. The general manager of the company already said the police can check the records both at the company’s office and at the telephone company.
People are not rational when these things happen. Consider this example. Today on TV, a father of one of the victims called and said that his son had “called him and told him that the bus was stopped for 2 hours because it was broken.” Ask yourself how this can be possible! A bus that leaves Aqaba at 8 in the morning, makes it to Jarash by 12:30-1pm after having stopped for 2 hours? What does that leave? 2 hours and half to three hours?
Also consider your example. I understand your frustration towards what happened with your friend last summer, but do you know why the bus had the accident? Because the driver had a stroke. What can be done about this? It is really sad and tragic, a horrible situation for both the driver and the passengers, but what could have been done?
You might be thinking now, but this is the 2nd or 3rd accident for this one company. That is true, but you know the facts, and you should consider the context as well. This company is one with probably the most number of buses going between cities in Amman. They have daily trips from the north to the south between all sorts of cities. This makes it more likely that this will happen to them.
I understand you’re trying to find a solution, a way out of this situation, and you’re thinking that if this company is boycotted that it might do something to have this change, but it won’t change, because there’s nothing the company itself can do to make sure once a driver has left the city with the bus, he’s not gonna make a wrong decision. This last accident is the perfect example of that. The speed limit was 100 or 90, the bus was going about 80, below the speed limit, but still, it was going at a dangerous speed. But who decides that it was dangerous? It’s easy for us to know that because we’ve seen the aftermath, but the bus driver didn’t, he calculated that as long as he didn’t go over the speed limit, it was solely up to him to decide which speed under that limit to drive at. As far as he could tell, no police officer could stop him and give him a ticket, and as long as that was the case, he was willing to take the risk.
There is something that can be done to solve this. Install light signs that are programmable and are controlled so that they display updates about the road conditions and notify drivers of restrictions because of the bad conditions. For example, there could have been a sign right before that section of the road that said “wet conditions, slippery road ahead, trucks and buses don’t pass, speed limit 60 km/h.” If that is done, and they put a police patrol for a while there, drivers will know that they have to obey these signs. Trust me these signs will save lives.
Finally, regarding the drivers of this company. They are all licensed by the state of course, and all have to pass additional training at a driving academy before being hired, and after that, they are still escorted by supervisors to determine that they are good drivers. Yet still, they make mistakes like this one.
The tachographs are checked daily to see who drove too fast, and some drivers were fired because of this. Some drivers were also fired because of misbehavior.
I understand you probably have a lot of experience with this company because you go to Aqaba (or is it the other way around) a lot, right? Have you had bad experiences with drivers? With stewardesses? Have you ever filed a complaint? Some people have and the cases are always dealt with. You can’t just stay silent and think that the next time it won’t happen, it has to be reported. If you think a driver was going too fast for the road, did a dangerous maneuver, do report it, not just keep it to yourself and then after months of it start telling the story. These people wanna run a business decently and they’re people just like you and me. There are people in charge that will listen, and if an employee makes a mistake, they know how to deal with it, but they have to know, you have to talk to them.
Anyways, I think the focus should be on installing those signs that depend on the weather. They are used widely here in the US and they are very useful and helpful.
Daniel on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 7:01 am
u should file a public litigation case against the company. battle it out in the court. then only the company will come to its senses.
nasimjo on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 9:53 am
Anonymous: just some corrections:
The bus was driving with a speed of 90 KMs / H, and had the speed of 80 KM at crash time!
The speed limit on that piece of the highway is 80 KM/h for cars and 70KM/h for trucks and buses (there is an obvious sign for this).
Just before the curve, there is a big red obvious red sign saying (SLOW DOWN NOW USING LOW GEARS) in arabic and english …
I go through this road almost daily ever since it was opened! as i was a resident of jerash for 18 years.
why is it that the bus was going with 90 KM while the water tank was going with 45-50 KM/h !!!!
Double spead! when both have the same limits!
Anonymous on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 5:11 pm
nasimjo, I was going off what the police report said. It said that the speed wasn’t suitablefor the road’s conditions, not that the driver exceeded the limit. Anyway, I’ll take your word for it, but still, even if the driver had gone at 70km/h, I think it would still have been too fast and the same would have happened. The point being that the posted speed limit does not always match the limit of the roads.
The signs I’m talking about are very different than the red sign you mentioned. The one you mentioned only tells drivers to not use their brakes, and instead use lower gears to slow down. The signs I’m talking about can be used to tell drivers of additional restrictions, as in if you don’t do what they tell you you get ticketed. Police won’t give you a ticket if you don’t use low gears to slow down, so ultimately it’s more up to you than if it was mandatory, in which case it is still up to you as a driver to abide by the law, but now you have an incentive not to break it.
Finally, the two vehicles were driven by two different individuals, each making their own decision about what speed to go at.
Mu3aZ on Tue, 29th Jan 2008 8:38 pm
Thanks for the post bro
Transport in Manchester on Mon, 27th Oct 2008 3:46 pm
Thanks for the information
Transport on Mon, 26th Jan 2009 4:49 pm
Thanks for the info
Movers from Miami on Sun, 22nd Mar 2009 5:57 pm
I would advice of building up mass awareness against the company. There is commitment involved in this field that the safety of passengers is of utmost importance…
I suggest you build up a movement or a cause at some social networking site and try to create a mass movement…
lowsear45 on Fri, 17th Apr 2009 3:43 pm
First, I am sorry for your friend.my opinion is u should file a public litigation case against the company.