Effective from Monday, the Federal Road Safety Corps,FRSC will effect total ban of petroleum tanker drivers from embarking on night journeys across the country.

FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, said in Lagos that efforts had been put in place to impound any truck found contravening the order, saying the ban was to promote safe petroleum haulage in the country.

Oyeyemi said no tanker should be seen on the road at night, saying they need to find solutions to incessant crashes of tankers on the road.

According to him, the effects of crashes are quite unquantifiable on human life, the environment and to the economy.

The FRSC boss also said a crash involving a tanker laden with petrol would lose about N50million being the cost of its contents and the vehicle.

Oyeyemi said many crashes that happened at night had also caused severe damage to people and the community, saying apart from the lives lost, number of houses, shops, farm and other investment were usually engulfed in flames during a crash involving fuel tankers.

The Corps Marshal said such incident had portrayed the nation in bad light in the comity of civilised nations, saying the dimension and scale of devastation caused by crashes involving petroleum tankers was evident in its multiplier-effects on the society.

According to him, there are existing laws and policies of government that are sufficient in tackling the problem if every stakeholder complies.

He said the National Road Traffic Regulations 2013, the Road Transport Safety Standardisation Scheme and Safe-to Load- Projects were part of the government efforts to tackle the problem.

Oyeyemi advised tanker drivers to stop deliberate violation, neglect and non-compliance to basic road traffic regulation, appealing to them to stop intimidating other road users, especially, those who drive light weight vehicles by exposing them to unnecessary risk.

The FRSC boss said the mandatory Speed Limiting Device installation was a good initiative aimed at reducing speed-related crashes.