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Saturday, July 15, 2006
Another compactor truck driver sacked for mishap
BARELY three days after a driver of a garbage compactor truck was discharged for figuring in an accident resulting in the truck's damage, another driver faces the same fate as the truck he was driving fell into a roadside excavation of the Davao City Water District, Thursday night, causing a P1,000 worth of damage to its vault.
Richard Peralta, 43, an employee of the City Environment and Natural Resources (Cenro), was driving the compactor truck at about 10 p.m. Thursday when the truck fell into the construction canal.
Peralta, in a police blotter report at the Sta. Ana Police Station, claimed there was no warning sign for the canal thus he failed to notice there was an excavation. The center vault of the truck was damaged.
City Administrator Wendel E. Avisado said whether Peralta caused the damage of the compactor truck intentionally or not, he may have to be discharged from work, following the policy of City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte in protecting public properties.
Avisado said he is only waiting for the report of Cenro chief Joy Espina on the matter to come up with their final recommendation to the mayor.
"We recently relieved a driver, we may lose another one," Avisado said in an interview Friday.
"Unfortunately, that is what the mayor want the people to know because he wants government properties protected, nothing personal," he added.
Meanwhile, DCWD operations manager Edwin Regalado said the company will answer for the damage.
"The truck is with us now, gipaayo namo. It is expected to come out this afternoon," Regalado said in a phone interview.
Regalado belied that the excavation was left unmarked, saying they even had a barricade around it.
"But it was beside tricycle drivers that could be the reason why the truck driver didn't see the barricade," Regalado said.
Peralta said fixing the damaged center vault will only cost them less than P1,000, which will be taken from the company's contingency plan.
Last Tuesday, Reynaldo M. Rincal, a contractual worker of the Cenro was dismissed from his job after he figured in an accident that smashed a truck's windshield.
During the blessing of the 10 garbage compactor trucks, Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte warned all truck drivers to take extra care while driving public-owned vehicles. He told them they will be held accountable for damaged trucks. (BRQ)
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