Subjects exempted from road service fees

5 groups of subjects must pay for road use services

According to the draft, vehicles using road services that are subject to payment for road services are divided into 5 groups as follows:

- Group 1 includes the following types of vehicles: Vehicles with less than 12 seats, trucks with a load capacity of less than 2 tons; public passenger transport buses;

- Group 2 includes the following types of vehicles: Vehicles with 12 to 30 seats; trucks with a load capacity from 2 tons to under 4 tons;

- Group 3 includes the following types of vehicles: Vehicles with 31 seats or more; trucks with a load capacity from 4 tons to under 10 tons;

- Group 4 includes the following types of vehicles: Trucks with a load capacity from 10 tons to less than 18 tons; trucks carrying goods in 20-foot containers;

- Group 5 includes the following types of vehicles: Trucks with a load capacity of 18 tons or more; trucks carrying goods in 40-foot containers.

The draft clearly states that vehicle owners subject to payment for road use services as mentioned above must pay for road use services, except in cases where road use service fees are exempted.

Subjects exempted from road service fees

The draft clearly states that the subjects exempted from road service fees include:

1. Ambulance.

2. Fire truck.

3. Agricultural and forestry vehicles include: plows, harrows, tillers, weeders, and threshers.

4. Specialized vehicles serving national defense include vehicles with license plates: Red background, embossed white letters and numbers with specialized equipment for national defense (including: tank trucks, crane trucks, vehicles carrying armed forces on the march are understood as passenger cars with 12 seats or more, covered transport vehicles with seats installed in the trunk, control vehicles, military inspection vehicles, specialized vehicles for transporting prisoners, rescue vehicles, satellite information vehicles and other specialized cars serving national defense).

5. Specialized vehicles serving security include vehicles of the Ministry of Public Security, Provincial and City Police, District and County Police:

- Traffic police patrol cars have the following characteristics: On the roof of the car there are rotating lights and on both sides of the car body there are printed the words: "TRAFFIC POLICE";

- Police car 113 has the words "POLICE 113" printed on both sides of the car body;

- Mobile police cars have the words "MOBILE POLICE" printed on both sides of the car;

- Vehicles of military, police and prosecutorial forces on emergency missions must use one of the priority signals as prescribed by law;

- Covered transport vehicles with seats installed in the trunk to transport police on duty;

- Special vehicles transporting prisoners, rescue vehicles and ambulances must have identification signs according to the provisions of law on specialized vehicles.

6. Specialized vehicles for funeral services, including:

- Vehicles with specialized structures for funeral services (including: hearses, refrigerated trucks used to store and transport bodies);

- Funeral-related vehicles (including: passenger vehicles accompanying the hearse, flower trucks, and photo-carrying vehicles) are vehicles used only for funeral activities with a vehicle registration certificate bearing the name of the funeral service unit. The funeral service unit has a written commitment that these vehicles are only used for funeral activities and sent to the electronic payment service provider (specifying the number of vehicles and license plate numbers for each type).

7. The convoy was led by a traffic police car.

8. Police and defense force vehicles use the prescribed National Road Ticket.

9. Vehicles carrying medicine, machinery, equipment, supplies, and goods to disaster-stricken areas or epidemic areas according to the provisions of law on emergency situations in case of major disasters or dangerous epidemics.

10. Motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles, two-wheeled motorbikes, three-wheeled motorbikes.