Nghe An: Strengthening the handling of violations of oversized, overloaded vehicles and passenger transport vehicles violating regulations during Tet

Accordingly, to strengthen the control and handling of violations against oversized and overloaded vehicles, cars with less than 12 seats operating in illegal transportation, farm vehicles, and homemade 3-4-wheel vehicles, contributing to ensuring traffic safety and order in the coming time. Especially before, during and after the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival 2022.

Nghe An Department of Transport inspection team checks overloaded vehicles on Ho Chi Minh trail. Photo courtesy of CTV

Nghe An Provincial People's Committee requests:

-Standing Committee of Provincial Traffic Safety Committee:Preside over and coordinate with relevant units to advise the Provincial People's Committee to establish interdisciplinary teams led by leaders of the Provincial Police and leaders of the Department of Transport to inspect and handle violations of oversized and overloaded vehicles, cars with less than 12 seats operating in illegal transportation, farm vehicles, and homemade 3-4-wheel vehicles in the first quarter of 2022.

- The Department of Transport directs the Transport Inspectorate to continue to strengthen the control of road vehicle loads in accordance with regulations; focus on controlling loads at key areas of loading and unloading goods (key traffic and construction works, ports, wharves, yards, stations, mines, warehouses, etc.); strictly handle vehicles that expand the size of the vehicle's walls and cargo compartments for the purpose of overloading goods; coordinate with competent authorities to inspect and handle violations of vehicles with foreign license plates operating in the transport business with signs of overloading or oversized goods when requested.

Traffic Inspectorate forces guide vehicle owners who violate the weight scale to compare. Photo courtesy of CTV

Combine handling of violations with propaganda and dissemination of laws on vehicle load to mineral exploitation enterprises, management units of train stations, seaports, inland waterway wharves, works and projects under implementation.

Direct the Nghe An Motor Vehicle Inspection Center and request the Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers in the province to resolutely refuse to inspect vehicles that change the size of the sidewalls, trunks or reinforce other details of the vehicle for the purpose of carrying overloaded goods. At the same time, recommend the Vietnam Register to strengthen inspection and supervision of the activities of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers in the province; request the Inspection Centers to strictly comply with the procedures and regulations related to technical safety and environmental protection inspection of motor vehicles, and strictly handle violations.

Traffic police inspect the violating vehicle after unloading. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Hai

In addition, the Provincial People's Committee also requested the Department of Transport to review and install additional signs to limit the load of bridges and roads on the managed routes in full compliance with regulations. Directing subordinate units to request road patrol, inspection forces, and road management units to regularly monitor the operation of overloaded and oversized vehicles on the assigned routes. When detecting any violations, they must immediately notify the authorities (Inspector).gTraffic Police) to inspect and handle promptly. Require contractors to commit not to use or hire vehicles that violate the load capacity, wall size, and container to construct works with the Department's Project Management Boards; inspect the implementation of commitments by contractors constructing works and projects invested by the Department.

-Provincial Police:Continue to direct the effective implementation of the peak period of crime suppression and the peak period of ensuring traffic order and safety during the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival of 2022 under the direction of the Ministry of Public Security and the Provincial People's Committee. Coordinate to promote propaganda and dissemination of laws, mobilize people and vehicle owners to strictly comply with traffic safety laws, especially for vehicle owners operating in the business of transporting goods and passengers by car; organize reviews and mobilize cases of keeping agricultural vehicles, homemade 3-wheeled and 4-wheeled motor vehicles to voluntarily dismantle and destroy the vehicles.

Local police handle oversized and overloaded vehicles. Photo: Archive.

At the same time, direct the police of units and localities to strengthen patrols and control to proactively detect and strictly handle violations of overloading and oversizing; vehicles that have expired or are past inspection; cars with less than 12 seats operating in the passenger transport business against regulations; farm vehicles; homemade 3- and 4-wheel vehicles; driving vehicles with drugs or alcohol in the body; vehicles with foreign license plates operating illegally.

Organize a review of inappropriate legal regulations and unreasonable traffic organization to propose to competent authorities for consideration and amendment. Grasp the situation of activities of organizations and individuals that broker and sell fake driving licenses to handle according to the provisions of law.

Authorities check the allowed height of trucks. Photo: D.C.

- Department of Information and Communications, Nghe An Newspaper, Provincial Radio and Television Station:Coordinate with the Provincial Traffic Safety Committee to strengthen the propaganda of legal regulations on handling violations of oversized, overloaded vehicles, 3- and 4-wheeled homemade vehicles; agricultural vehicles; mobilize businesses and households to voluntarily comply with the law on traffic order and safety. Propaganda of fine levels according to new regulations in Decree No. 123/2021/ND-CP dated December 28/2021 of the Government.

- People's Committees of districts, cities and towns:Directing the strengthening of measures to ensure traffic safety in the area; establishing an interdisciplinary team, with the core being the police and members of the district-level Traffic Safety Committee, to simultaneously inspect and handle violations of oversized and overloaded vehicles in the area; farm vehicles; homemade vehicles; and cars with less than 12 seats operating in the passenger transport business in violation of regulations.

At the same time, strengthen propaganda and mobilize organizations and individuals to actively monitor, detect and promptly report cases of oversized and overloaded vehicles; farm vehicles; homemade vehicles; cars with less than 12 seats operating in the passenger transport business in violation of regulations in the area to the competent authorities via the hotline of the District Traffic Safety Committee for handling.

Checking vehicle load in front of Dien Chau Traffic Police Station. Photo courtesy of D.C.

- Notice to organizations, individuals, and businesses engaged in the business of transporting goods and materials for leveling the ground at highway projects and key works in the area to strictly comply with the provisions of the law on traffic safety and order, not to carry goods and construction materials that are oversized or overloaded; to take measures to cover and prevent materials from falling on the road, affecting traffic safety and environmental pollution; if violating, they will be punished according to current regulations.

- Directing the local police to coordinate with the Provincial People's Committee's interdisciplinary inspection teams to handle violations, arrange temporary detention of violating vehicles, as well as unloading; at the same time, effectively use the fixed and mobile load scales provided in vehicle load control activities, regularly monitor the situation, develop and deploy plans, topics, patrol plans, control, and handle violations of traffic order and safety, focusing on cutting the walls and boxes of vehicles that arbitrarily change the size of the vehicle's box against regulations on national highways, provincial roads, district roads, rural roads, roads on dykes, etc.

For the Road Administration Department II and road BOT units, the People's Committee of Nghe An province requested the Road Inspectorate to strengthen coordination in inspection, control, and strict handling of violations of vehicle load, side and body size according to authority and legal regulations; strengthen control of vehicle load on roads managed by the Road Administration Department II. Coordinate and exchange information with the Department of Transport and the Provincial Police on the situation of violations of load and size limits on roads in the province; information and data on granting of Licenses for overloaded and oversized vehicles to serve the management and handling of violations. At the same time, direct 02 road toll stations (Hoang Mai Station and Ben Thuy Station) to connect, extract data from cameras, provide information, and promptly notify vehicles violating the size limit, bridge load, and road traffic through the station to the functional forces (Inspector of the Department of TrafficgTransport, Traffic Police, Road Inspectorate (Department of Road Administration II) for inspection and handling.

Gia Huy