Thursday, February 19, 2015

Start charging heavy trucks can move in 2016 – Behind the wheel

Start charging heavy trucks can move in 2016 – Behind the wheel

Rosstandart want to periodically check on-board devices of all trucks weighing over 12 tons, which could push the launch date of tolls on federal highways. Carriers will have to regularly remove and transfer to check the on-board instruments, which greatly complicate the functioning of the future system.

The newspaper “Izvestia” draws attention to the initiative Rosstandart, indicate the need for inclusion in the State Register of measuring instruments “on-board devices, and other measuring instruments used for determine the size of the board. ” The department indicated that the implementation “of this mechanism on the scale of the Russian Federation is a complex organizational and technical challenge.” However, management believes Rosstandart, only this approach “will allow the regulator to defend the interests of the judiciary in the event of disputes».

In practice, this means that the system operator to collect tolls have to be removed from trucks instrumentation, send them to the test center, and then returned to the owner, and have to do it regularly. Taking into account the type and number of required on-board devices – about two million, only the initial verification of these gadgets will cost 14 billion rubles.

The system of tolls with heavy trucks must earn to 15 November 2015. The transport offer to postpone the start of the 2016, as well as reduce the planned rates.

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