Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) pres­i­dent, Visham Bab­wah, is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­view its tick­et­ing pol­i­cy when it comes to spare tyres and wind­screen de­fects, cit­ing glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ing trends and on­go­ing sup­ply-chain chal­lenges.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Bab­wah said the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties are squeez­ing mo­torists for not hav­ing a spare tyre. He ex­plained that many hy­brid, elec­tric and even con­ven­tion­al ve­hi­cles are now man­u­fac­tured with­out spare tyres. Ac­cord­ing to him, this is large­ly due to de­sign con­straints and cost-cut­ting mea­sures by man­u­fac­tur­ers.