The owner of the Truck Owners Association (Aprocam)Ricardo Squartini, said that although in the different parking lots that exist in Mendoza to wait for open the Passage to Chile About 2,700 truckers are waiting, At least 1,300 more need to arrive in the province. They are those who, even though clearance of the merchandise through Customs, They are waiting for the passage to open in their place of origin.
This is a decision of the companies that prefer to avoid waiting in Mendoza, since there is noso far, none information about a possible opening.
stranded trucks-Uspallata-Paso to Chile
This is how the parking lots in Uspallata are, where truck drivers have services to await the opening of the Paso to Chile
Gentleness
Content but anxious drivers
On the other hand, Squartini expressed that, although They are attended to and controlled by personnel from the Ministry of Health, Many have already started to feel anxious about the number of days they have been waiting.
Added to the already complex situation was the loss of the two drivers who died while waiting for the opening of the Cristo Redentor Pass. -one from Chile and another from Brazil- for different health conditions. What happened has made the atmosphere even more tense.
“After so many days we have to take into account that People are starting to get a little nervousalthough we ask them to be patient,” said the representative of the truck owners.
The problem is that, as detailed, when the Pass to Chile opensDrivers’ anxiety about crossing can lead to accidents.
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Criticism of the lack of structural solutions in high mountains
In Squartini’s opinion, that the problem of cuts in the Step to Chile The fact that the storms in winter have become chronic is the responsibility of successive governments that have never had enough political will to solve it.
This for the entrepreneur It does not just have to do with the construction of a low-height crossingas Las Leñas Pass is projected to be, but by trying alternatives.
“I wonder what they do in Canada or the Nordic countries where it snows almost all year round. It is important to copy these places as well, where the crises we go through every winter no longer happen.”
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