Using recording equipment to detect and handle vehicles violating the law

Document No. 1560/TCDBVN-ATGT ofVietnam Road Administrationon "Using recording devices to detect vehicles with illegally extended cargo walls as a basis for determining administrative violations and handling administrative violations according to the provisions of law" was sent to the Departments of Transport, Road Management Departments and the Vietnam Register.

Inter-provincial vehicles traveling on the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early morning of April 14, 2022. Photo: NPV

Document No. 1560/TCDBVN-ATGT has the following specific content:

From 2017 to present, there has been a recurring phenomenon of overloaded trucks in some localities, especially trucks with self-dumping cargo beds (using hydraulic dump trucks), illegally extending the bed to carry overloaded cargo, in particular, some semi-trailers are equipped with fake containers and hydraulic dump trucks, these vehicles can carry from 70 to 100 tons of cargo, causing damage to road infrastructure, traffic safety, etc.

To prevent the situation of vehicles expanding their cargo boxes illegally, the Vietnam Road Administration recommends that the Departments of Transport and Communications and Road Management Departments implement the following:

Sand transport vehicles on National Highway 7, Do Luong town section on the evening of April 13, 2022. Photo: NPV

- Direct the Traffic Inspectorate, Inspection Officers, Inspection - Safety Teams, Patrols, and Road Patrols to increase the use of recording equipment (equipped cameras) to record images when detecting illegal expansion of the container wall, as a basis for determining administrative violations according to the provisions of Circular No. 06/2017/TT-BGTVT dated February 28, 2017 of the Ministry of Transport and sanction administrative violations according to the provisions of the Government's Decrees (Decree No. 100/2019/ND-CP dated December 30, 20219 "Regulations on sanctioning administrative violations in the field of road and railway traffic" and Decree 123/2021/ND-CP "Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the decrees regulating sanctioning administrative violations in the field of maritime; road and railway traffic, civil aviation").

HOWO truck with a cargo bed showing signs of having its cargo bed extended, not having a license plate on the front of the vehicle as prescribed, operating on the night of April 13, 2022 on National Highway 15. Photo: NPV

- Notify the vehicle owner of the violation according to the provisions of Circular No. 06/2017/TT-BGTVT dated February 28, 2017 of the Ministry of Transport and the instructions in Decision 2191/QD-TCDBVN dated June 23, 2017 of the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam.

- In case the vehicle owner does not comply with the violation handling or does not receive the violation notice, it shall be sent to the Vietnam Register to be included in the violation warning program.