Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has called on public service vehicle operators to acquire long term road service license.
RTSA Chief Executive Officer, Zindaba Soko said the long term service licence is issued to a person or a body corporate who wishes to use the public service vehicle for hire or reward for a period of more than three months.
Mr Soko said this in a speech read on his behalf by RTSA Principle Registrar, Joseph Mumba during the official opening of a two day public sitting held at Solwezi Lodge today.
He said the licence is granted in accordance with the provisions in section 100 of the Road Traffic Act number 11 of 2002.
Mr Soko said the licence for the fiscal year 2019 can only be awarded to operators or owners who meet the terms and conditions and with public approval.
He said the applicants will be assessed in threefold that include operator, vehicle and driver.
Mr Soko said the operator requirements demand that applicants must be individuals or corporate bodies as specified in section 108 of the Road Traffic Act No.11 of 2002 which require that an individual need to be a citizen of Zambia or a non-Zambian citizen who is a holder of an investment licence.
He added that a partnership needs to be composed of exclusively of persons who are citizens of Zambia while a corporate body needs to be incorporated in the laws of Zambia, certified by the minister, with not less than 75 percent membership exclusively of citizens of Zambia whose directors are exclusively citizens of Zambia and which is not controlled by any means directly or indirectly outside Zambia or by persons who are not exclusively citizens of Zambia.
Let’s roll! It is UNELECTABLE!
Our money for vehicle licenses, drivers licenses, speed fines & toll gates going out to foreigners lebanese Lamise & Austrians Kapsch.
PF00Lish Govt is a silly sell-out regime.
This is not news naimwe ba LT. This is information you can obtain from RTSA through out the year
Why can’t Ratsa also simplify licencing online. Even musonko now you will find long queues at Ratsa offices and fleet owners it will be a nightmare. If Ratsa introduce a system for uploading our insurance certificates online then their system checks including if fitness is valid then ask us to pay with airtel,mtn,Or zamtel money after that issue the musonko which we just printout and stick.
We need Drivers Licenses that don’t require renew.
Put an engineer as director at RTSA who will understand that driving a motor vehicle at 40km/hour increases cost, consumes time and has a detrimental effect on the economy
I dont know how you drive your vehicle you need training maybe you labour the engine and drive in gear two…40 km/hr or 30 miles / hr a driver has a shorter stopping distance …why do you want to drive at 120 km/hr in a residential area going to buy sugar and pizza in Shoprite!!
kikikikik ba Mwelwa. They know that driving at lower speed does all that you have mentioned. But the motivation is revenue collection. The slower you drive the more edge you become to increase the speed. Lol. You are captured and paying fines. Taxes in Zambia are killing everyone. Imagine, even interest earned from fixed deposit is taxed at 2%.