Vietnam: What conditions do enterprises, cooperatives, and households conducting commercial transportation by car need to meet?
- What conditions do enterprises, cooperatives, and households conducting commercial transportation by car need to meet?
- What are the conditions for conducting commercial passenger transportation along fixed routes, commercial passenger transportation by bus or by taxi?
- What are the rights and obligations of passenger transportation dealers?
What conditions do enterprises, cooperatives, and households conducting commercial transportation by car need to meet?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 67 of the 2008 Law on Road Traffic in Vietnam, the conditions for commercial transportation by car are as follows:
Enterprises, cooperatives and households conducting commercial transportation by car must fully meet the following conditions:
- Making registration for commercial transportation by car under law;
- Ensuring the quantity, quality and use life of vehicles suitable to the business form; fitting travel monitoring devices on their vehicles according to the Government’s regulations;
- Ensuring the number of drivers and attendants suitable to the business plan and signing written labor contracts with them; attendants working on vehicles must be trained in transportation business skills and traffic safety; it is forbidden to employ drivers who are banned from driving under law;
- Persons who directly manage transportation activities of enterprises and cooperatives must possess transportation qualifications;
- Owning a parking lot suitable to the size of an enterprise, cooperative or household, ensuring requirements of order, safety, fire and explosion prevention and fight, and environmental sanitation.
Vietnam: What conditions do enterprises, cooperatives, and households conducting commercial transportation by car need to meet?
What are the conditions for conducting commercial passenger transportation along fixed routes, commercial passenger transportation by bus or by taxi?
Pursuant to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 67 of the 2008 Law on Road Traffic in Vietnam stipulating as follows:
Conditions for commercial transportation by car
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2. Only enterprises and cooperatives may conduct commercial passenger transportation along fixed routes, commercial passenger transportation by bus or by taxi, and must fully meet the following conditions:
a/ The conditions specified in Clause 1 of this Article;
b/ Having a section in charge of traffic safety conditions;
c/ Registering passenger transportation service quality standards with a competent agency and publicizing them.
According to the above regulations, only enterprises and cooperatives may conduct commercial passenger transportation along fixed routes, commercial passenger transportation by bus or by taxi, and must fully meet the following conditions:
- Making registration for commercial transportation by car under law;
- Ensuring the quantity, quality and use life of vehicles suitable to the business form; fitting travel monitoring devices on their vehicles according to the Government’s regulations;
- Ensuring the number of drivers and attendants suitable to the business plan and signing written labor contracts with them; attendants working on vehicles must be trained in transportation business skills and traffic safety; it is forbidden to employ drivers who are banned from driving under law;
- Persons who directly manage transportation activities of enterprises and cooperatives must possess transportation qualifications;
- Owning a parking lot suitable to the size of an enterprise, cooperative or household, ensuring requirements of order, safety, fire and explosion prevention and fight, and environmental sanitation.
- Having a section in charge of traffic safety conditions;
- Registering passenger transportation service quality standards with a competent agency and publicizing them.
What are the rights and obligations of passenger transportation dealers?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 69 of the 2008 Law on Road Traffic in Vietnam, the rights and obligations of passenger transportation dealers are as follows:
The passenger transportation dealer has the following rights:
- To collect transportation fares and freights;
- To refuse to transport before the vehicles leave the car terminal or embarking positions or to disembark under transport contracts persons who possess tickets or are named in the contracts but commit acts of disturbing public order, obstructing the transport dealer’s work, affecting the health and property of others or cheating in tickets, or passengers suffering a dangerous disease.
The passenger transportation dealer has the following obligations:
- To fully realize the commitments on transport quality or fully perform transport contracts;
- To buy insurance for passengers, with insurance premiums included in passenger tickets;
- To hand tickets and freight receipts to passengers;
- To pay compensation for damage caused by their employees or representatives when performing jobs assigned by them;
- To take responsibility for consequences caused by their employees or representatives in complying with their requests in contravention of this Law.
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