ASU sets new penalties for overloading

The Verkhovna Rada passed a draft law on sizing and weight control for road transport on June 3.The new fines for overloading range from 1.7 to 51,000 hryvnia.

The Verkhovna Rada read second and supported the draft law as a whole, ensuring the possibility of automatic weight control of vehicles and automatic remediation of violations of dimension and weight parameters by the State Transport Safety Service (Ukrtransbezopasnost).We are discussing Bill №3742, which amends the "Road Transport" Act.280 delegates voted for him.

The law defines the rights and obligations of consignors and consignees, and also increases the liability of road carriers for exceeding the size and weight standards set by the law.

The amount of fines for exceeding the dimensional weight standard for shipment depends on the degree of overloading:

Exceeding established size and weight standards by up to 2% - 100 Citizens' non-taxable minimum income (UAH 1,700)

2% to 5% (inclusive) in excess of 2% to 5% (inclusive) for unauthorised transport of indivisible or divisible goods - 300 NMDG (5 100 UAH)

Over 5% to 10% - 500 UDMH (8 500 UAH)

Over 10% to 20% - 1000 NDMH (17 000 UAH)

Over 20% to 30% - 3000 UDMH (51 000 UAH)

In addition, a fine of 1,000 NDMG, or 17,000 UAH, is imposed for the transportation of passengers or goods without a proper permit and for refusal to provide such documents to Ukrtranssecurity employees.

"Introducing automatic logging of violations of size and weight standards will allow to start work on the WIM complex. First, automated weight control reduces the risk of corruption. Second - significantly increasing efficiency - the computer processes the information instantly and works around the clock. He recorded all Violations. This is much better than our inspector who physically didn't have time to cover the entire stream of trucks and was forced to selectively weigh in and then spend another half hour drafting all the infraction documents," the superintendent said.Ukrtranssezosnosti Yegor Prokopchuk.

The provisions of the law come into effect three months after publication.Ukrtransbezopasnost expects that in the remaining time, the Verkhovna Rada will also pass the relevant Act No. 3743 in the second reading, making corresponding amendments to the administrative law.