VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Transport has discovered a number of transport violations related to management, transport trading licensing, vehicle safety conditions and speeding after the ministry’s inspection in Quang Ninh, Phu Tho and Nghe An provinces.

Police officers examine loaded trucks running on National Highway 4D in the northern Lai Chau District’s Tam Duong District. Transport inspectors at weighing stations across the country discovered more than 5,300 overloaded vehicles last month, a decrease of more than 1,000 vehicles compared with the same period last year. – Photo: VNA/VNS

The inspection showed that several transport service companies did not pay enough attention to management and vehicle supervision, their drivers did not have work contracts and did not buy social insurance, and the companies did not properly punish drivers who were speeding.

For instance, two out of the seven companies checked in the northern province of Phu Tho had drivers on the road for too long a period without breaks. Four out of eight companies in the central province of Nghe An had drivers and driver assistants with no professional transport competence training. The companies also did not regularly perform vehicle safety checks.

In the northern province of Quang Ninh, six out of 11 checked companies did not post their transport service prices and did not submit health and social insurance for their drivers as per regulations.

Inspectors from the Ministry of Transport asked the transport departments in Quang Ninh, Phu Tho and Nghe An provinces to strictly punish violators, especially those that did not have trade licences and had loose management.

Provincial departments of transport must withdraw the badges of vehicles that were hired by transport companies, as these vehicles were not owned by the companies.

The ministry asked provincial departments of transport to conduct more inspections of transport trading, coaches and illegal terminals.

Overloaded vehicles

Transport inspectors at weighing stations across the country discovered more than 5,300 overloaded vehicles last month, a decrease of more than 1,000 vehicles compared with the same period last year, according to a Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam report.

The inspectors withdrew more than 1,700 driving licences and gave administrative fines of more than VND40 billion (US$1.8 million).

Vu Do Anh Dung, deputy director of the Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam, said that Son La, Nam Dinh, Ninh Binh, Nghe An, Quang Binh and Kon Tum provinces experienced many overloaded vehicles well.

To better manage overloaded vehicles, the Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam asked provincial departments of transport and inspectors to put in place more unexpected inspections, especially at night, at ports, cement factories, stone mines and wood processing plants.

VNS