Detailed regulations on safety traffic procedures in Vietnam from July 15, 2020

According to Article 4 of Circular No. 12/2020/TT-BGTVT of the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam, a safety traffic procedure shall be adopted following the steps below:

1. Before assigning a new transport task to drivers, the department in charge of management of satisfaction of traffic safety conditions at an enterprise or cooperative conducting business of passenger transport by auto along fixed routes, by bus, taxi or containers or officials assigned to supervise traffic safety at a contractual passenger transport business or tourist transport business (hereinafter referred to as “traffic safety department (officer)) shall:

- on a daily basis, aggregate and analyze data on operation of each vehicle during the process of performing the transport task through a vehicle tracking device and other management measures to warn and take actions against violations;

- receive and resolve drivers’ proposals and feedback about traffic safety;

- cooperate with other departments to consolidate customers' transport requests, grasp transport routes and other contents related to traffic safety;

- cooperate with other departments in deploying vehicles and drivers to perform transport tasks in a manner that complies with regulations on drivers’ continuous driving hours, daily working hours and rest hours as prescribed by the Law on Road Traffic; not operate double-decker sleeper buses on level V and level VI mountainous roads.

2. Before performing a transport task, the person directly operating the transport of an enterprise or cooperative (hereinafter referred to as “the transport operator”) or management of a transport business and person managing drivers shall perform the following tasks (in the case of conducting taxi business, perform the tasks specified in the business plan of the business):

- Inspect the driver’s license; certificate of technical and environmental safety inspection; vehicle registration certificate; transport order in the case of transport of passengers along fixed routes or by bus; transport contract in the case of transport of passenger under a contract or tourist transport; and other documents upon request.

- Notify drivers in person or via software of the transport business of customers’ transport requests and traffic safety notes (if any);

- Conduct tests for drugs and alcohol (if testing devices are available).

3. After being assigned to perform a task and before the departure, the driver assigned to perform the transport task shall carry out an inspection of the vehicle (in the case of conducting taxi business, perform the tasks specified in the business plan of the business). The following shall be inspected: tracking device, cameras fitted to the vehicle (for the vehicle required to be fitted with a camera); steering system; wheels; brake system; lights and horn; information posted on the vehicle.

4. Before the departure, the driver shall use his/her driver ID card to log in the vehicle’s tracking device.

5. When the vehicle is operating on road

- The traffic safety department and officer or transport manager or management assigned by the business shall supervise the vehicle and driver during his/her performance of the transport task via the tracking device; immediately warn the driver if he/she is found driving the vehicle in excess of the speed limit, permissible continuous driving hours or daily working hours or if he/she fails to follow the route or the tracking device fails to give any signal, and other traffic safety threats; receive and propose measures to handle incidents threatening traffic safety. The warnings shall be recorded or updated to software;

- The driver shall strictly comply with traffic safety regulations while driving, comply with regulations on continuous driving hours, daily working hours, speed, itinerary, tracking devices and cameras (for the vehicle required to be fitted with a camera) ; immediately notify the time, place and causes of incidents threatening traffic safety so that appropriate measures are taken.

6. When the driver finishes his/her task or work shift

- The traffic safety department (officer) or transport operator or management assigned by the business shall: determine the distance over which the vehicle has been driven to provide the basis for formulating and implementing a maintenance and repair plan in accordance with the periodic maintenance schedule; consolidate results of and supervise the maintenance and repair; make a list of violations against regulations on speed limits, continuous driving hours, daily working hours, transport route and tracking device; request the head to take actions against such violations; make a list of incidents threatening traffic safety during the transport;

- The driver shall: use his/her driver ID card to log in the vehicle’s tracking device; after the trip or at the end of the work shift, before leaving the vehicle, make sure that there are no passengers in the passenger compartment.

Moreover, on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis, the traffic safety department (officer) shall:

- produce statistics of accidents, causes and level thereof involving each driver;

- develop and implement remedial measures against incidents threatening traffic safety during the process of conducting transport business;

- provide lessons learnt from accidents at serious level or higher to all drivers during the process of conducting transport business;

- cooperate with specialized departments of the transport business to provide professional training in transport and traffic safety to all drivers and attendants on the vehicle (if any) in accordance with regulations;

- archive physical documents and books or save them as prescribed in Clauses 2, 3 and 5 and Point a Clause 6 of this Article for at least 03 years.

View more details at Circular No. 12/2020/TT-BGTVT of the Ministry of Transport of Vietnam, effective from July 15, 2020.

Thu Ba

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