Some amendments to the Transportation sector

The Ministry of Transportation is conducting amendment of some provisions of the transport operation and vocational standards, conditions for professional guest driver, taxi drivers, long-haul truck drivers.

The new rules will tighten further transport operations.

With that, the tighter regulations, but the old regulations on transport business, the latest point in the new regulations is the individual can not be business passenger transport. Only new businesses are engaged to transport passengers, but the criteria for participation passenger transport operator must have a management apparatus now complete and at least 30 vehicles.

Strict management and medium enterprises

Stock strictly prohibited sales mechanism in the transport unit, this to avoid pressure with the driver, a major cause of the rapid run beyond Europe to other struggles between vehicles. Now there are a lot of cooperative work style transport vehicle into contributing members of cooperatives and bring a list of passenger travel. Under the new rules, the business wants cooperative transport operations have centralized management, avoiding spontaneity of the current vehicle owners.

The transportation business enterprises when recruiting workers into driver must sign labor contracts with a term written, premiums for drivers from 3 months upwards. They must also fully implement the terms of ensuring traffic order and safety as well as to implement periodic health checks for drivers. These rules are designed to fasten the responsibility of the vehicle owner when a traffic accident occurs, avoid vehicle owners often deny responsibility when the car accident today.

In case the authorities proves the vehicle owner does put pressure makes you do not have to start driving right place regulations causing serious consequences and could be criminally prosecuted. Will have prescribed time driver of driving cars must not exceed 10 hours per day and not more than 4 hours continuously. According to this regulation will have to closely monitor the implementation of this regulation.

Driving for transport enterprises must be guaranteed idle labor law. As for the driver, 3 times a year with violating regulations on traffic safety that sanctioning decisions of traffic police, the driver will be suspended for 6 months

According to the Road Management Bureau, Department will request the Ministry of Transportation regulations organizing the school and closely examine knowledge of road traffic law for drivers violating the provisions of law and order traffic Safety. Guide indefinitely revoked driver’s license, adding a number of provisions of the law degree driving violations and to re-examination.

Under the new rules, the exchange of driving licenses must relearn traffic laws, such as competition for the first time. The driver training institutions to supplement a number of detailed provisions on the responsibility of training institutions and learners in the training contract. All these new regulations to curb unlicensed driving school but only superficial, unreal quality.

The Department has already requested the Prime Minister to establish interdisciplinary inspection team, set fixed checkpoints in the provinces of Nghe An, Quang Ngai and Binh Thuan to control the operation of the drive. The fact there are now many businesses small transport business, even households passenger transport business only 1 to 2 passenger cars but hiding under the name of the cooperative to operate. Thus the new rules do not make it difficult for enterprises to grow real transport but also to create conditions for them to grow and better compete.

According to Nguyen Van Thanh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Road Administration, the Government should have its own mechanisms and policies applicable to the development of automobile transport enterprises and bus station as this is the type of service business nature public service. Admittedly, the planning system at the local bus station is too sketchy. Currently trading near the bus station to remain proprietary, systems Roadside stations, shelters … implemented too slowly.

Mr Thanh said: “This is the problem we are seeking to resolve without the drive back to the hotel they started, stops along the way due to lack of rest stations, piers. State should have policies and mechanisms for car service stations, rest areas, shelters as this in the list of public works. The transportation business enterprises had to pay a fee to maintain the operation of the bus stations, rest areas, shelters … “