New Delhi, March 3 -- India's Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board has issued fresh guidelines on transporting petroleum products by road in the wake of recent tragic accidents involving trucks carrying liquified petroleum gas, or LPG.

The regulator has prohibited transporting petroleum products by road at night and mandated quarterly safety checks of vehicles to ensure that all safety fittings are installed, maintained and tested, as per its regulations.

PNGRB suggested avoiding roads to transport bulk petroleum products over long distances and using pipelines or railway rakes instead. It added that spare pipeline capacity of oil marketing companies be utilized under product sharing or as common carriers to transport petroleum pr...