Drivers will be managed using unified software nationwide.

The Vietnam Road Administration has just proposed that the Ministry of Transport build a unified software to manage transport business drivers nationwide.

Accordingly, transport business units will update information of each driver from the time they start working at the unit until the end of work. The information includes recruitment date, contract form, driver's license, traffic safety violations and violation handling results, training courses, and professional training.

Driver management at transport businesses still has many shortcomings.

This will be an important information channel for transport enterprises to refer to in the process of recruiting and using drivers as well as serving the rescue and investigation work of law enforcement agencies. In addition, this database also serves the work of evaluating, recognizing, and awarding prizes to safe drivers and transport enterprises.

The software will connect with the driver's license management software to synchronize information about the driver, license class and license validity period. At the same time, connect with the journey monitoring system to connect data on operating kilometers, speeding violations, driving time violations for each driver to monitor, correct and serve as a basis to determine whether the driver is eligible to upgrade the driver's license. In particular, the software will connect with medical facilities that organize health check-ups for drivers to update and store information on the results of periodic health check-ups, drug and substance tests of the driver.

According to the Vietnam Road Administration, in recent times, a number of particularly serious accidents have occurred across the country, the main cause of which is the driver using drugs. When an accident occurs, state management agencies spend a lot of time verifying the driving history of the driver causing the accident to determine the cause of the accident. Driver management at transport business units still has many shortcomings, some units, for many reasons, force drivers to follow orders, and the supervision and implementation of periodic health check-ups of transport business units are not yet strict.

The software will connect with the GPLX management software to synchronize information about the driver, license class and license validity period. At the same time, connect with the journey monitoring system to connect data about operating kilometers, speeding violations, driving time violations for each driver.

Circular 63/2015/TT-BGTVT of the Ministry of Transport stipulates that transport businesses must manage drivers and update driver information in their personal records. However, this is done manually, in a reactive manner, without connection and data sharing to serve management work.