For a long time, many car friends feel that the domestic laws and regulations on trucks are relatively strict and the penalties are relatively strong. In fact, not only at home, but also at some foreign countries are very strict in penalties on truck-related regulations.

[ Truck Home Original] For a long time, many car friends feel that the relevant laws and regulations on trucks in China are relatively strict and the penalties are relatively strong. In fact, not only at home, but also at some foreign countries are very strict in penalties on truck-related regulations. In this issue, Truck Home will lead the truckers to check out some foreign regulations on trucks, mainly introducing the two items that are overloaded and fatigued driving that everyone is more concerned about, and compare which country is the strictest!

China

Governance of overload has always been a topic of concern in my country's road transportation industry. Relevant state ministries and governments in various places have issued various policies to rectify overloaded overloaded vehicles. And at the 2022 National People's Congress, Lu Yongquan, representative of the National People's Congress, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation, and director of the Provincial Railway Office, suggested: Referring to the provisions of serious overload and serious speeding, serious overload transportation of freight vehicles will be included as a case of dangerous driving in the " Criminal Law ", and drivers will be held criminally responsible in accordance with the law.

Not only that, in the latest version of " Road Traffic Safety Illegal Score Management Measures ", a number of modifications have been made to the "overload" scoring management method. For example, " exceeds the maximum allowable total mass " is used as the criterion for determining overloading. Moreover, the management of vehicle overload in the new version is more segmented, but its overall deductions have decreased. Specifically, you can subdivided three levels: 1 point is given below 30%, 3 points are given to 30%-50%, and 6 points are given to above 50%.

U.S.

I believe everyone knows that the United States is a federal country. Each state has its own laws and different management regulations. Any overload problem involves a high penalty in any state. So what are the methods of treating supernatural control in the United States?

First, a fine is issued to overload vehicles, and the excess is calculated at US$1-4 per pound; second, the cargo of overloaded vehicles is unloaded, and overloaded models are not allowed to continue driving; then the driver and transportation companies are included in the bad record file; in addition, for serious overload or repeated violations, criminal proceedings, short-term detention or imprisonment of up to one year can be carried out.

Japanese

Japan is more strict in overload punishment than in China, because they implement the "one over three penalty" system, that is, fines the cargo owner, transport enterprises, and drivers. According to relevant Japanese laws, large and medium-sized trucks will be fined 30,000 yen for overloading less than 50%; more than 50%-100%, they will be fined 40,000 yen. Similarly, once an overloaded vehicle is found, it will be detained immediately and the excess cargo will be unloaded to other models. Overloading is not allowed to continue driving.

German

As the birthplace of modern cars in the world, Germany can be said to be the country with the longest history of producing cars. This is why they will not be ruthless in dealing with overloading. The country's Federal Cargo Transportation Bureau has a special agency to manage overloaded vehicles, and has more than 700 checkpoints on its highway of more than 10,000 kilometers.

. In terms of the penalties for overload transportation, the first overload transportation will be registered and verbally warned; if the second time you are discovered, you will face a part-time job of 3 months; if there are more than 3 overload transportation within a year, the driver will not only be revoked and placed on the blacklist, but will not be allowed to work in the driving industry for life.

China

In terms of controlling fatigue driving, Article 62 of my country's "Regulations on the Implementation of Road Traffic Safety Law" stipulates that driving a motor vehicle continuously for more than 4 hours, without stopping to rest in the middle or stopping for less than 20 minutes is considered fatigue driving.The specific monitoring method is to rely on the navigation system developed by my country - Beidou satellite navigation system . Among them, "two passengers, one dangerous and one heavy" is a vehicle model that forces the installation of Beidou system ("one dangerous and dangerous" refers to hazardous chemical transport vehicles, and "one heavy and heavy trucks with more than 12 tons).

Similarly, in the latest version of the "Score Management Measures for Road Traffic Safety Illegal Acts", a number of modifications have been made to the scoring management Measures for "fatigue driving". However, in the " Draft for Comments for " released in early 2021, there was a controversial "8-hour working system", but there is no expression of "8-hour working system" in this new regulations.

U.S.

In terms of fatigue driving supervision, the US Department of Transportation enforces the installation of electronic monitoring equipment (ELD) on trucks to view all data at any time through mobile terminals or computer web pages. Not only that, the United States has a very strict definition of fatigue driving. For example, you must have a 30-minute rest for 8 hours of driving and 11 hours of driving. That is to say, the driver must have 10 hours of rest for 11 hours of driving.

In addition, the driver starts from work, whether on standby or driving, after 14 hours of continuous duty, the driver must rest for 10 hours before driving the vehicle again. In addition, the total number of hours for a truck driver to drive a vehicle for 8 days cannot exceed 70 hours or 60 hours within 7 days.

Japanese

Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also defines the scope of fatigue driving by publishing the "Improving Standards for Labor Time, etc.". The specific working hours for one month are less than 293 hours; the working hours for one day are less than 13 hours, and if you work overtime, you will have at least 8 hours of rest after get off work; and the driving time will not exceed 9 hours within two days. If the above provisions are violated, the country's laws may be punished with a maximum of one year in prison or a fine of 300,000 yen, and the license will be revoked for two years.

German

Germany stipulates that if fatigue driving is found to exceed 2 hours of the specified time, as long as it is proved that the transportation company is in an unreasonable place in the departure plan, the driver and the transportation company will be punished at the same time. The relevant penalty records will be used as the basis for whether the company can continue to obtain operating qualifications.

In addition, it is understood that in 2023, EU will force the installation of Smart Tacho 2 dash recorder for newly produced trucks. The new generation dash recorder will also implement driver rest policy. For example, every 6 hours of driving a truck, the driver must rest at least 45 minutes; drive for up to 10 hours a day, and there is also a mandatory rest time on weekends.