Latest regulations on granting license plates and badges for trucks and cars

How is the issuance of license plates and badges for transport business vehicles such as trucks, passenger cars... regulated? - Reader Thanh Tam

Subjects granted car badges and plates

Pursuant to Clause 1, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP, business entities with a license to operate automobile transportation are granted badges and signs for automobiles in accordance with the licensed business type and ensuring the following principles:

- At any one time, each vehicle is only issued and uses one type of badge or sign corresponding to one type of transportation business;

- Vehicles with the “CONTAINER TRUCK” badge are allowed to transport containers and other goods. Vehicles with the “TRUCK” or “TRACTOR TRUCK” badge are not allowed to transport containers;

- Enterprises and cooperatives operating passenger transport on fixed routes are granted shuttle vehicle badges by the Department of Transport at both ends of the route.

Validity period of car badge

Pursuant to Clause 2, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP, the validity period of car badges is stipulated as follows:

- Badges issued to transport business vehicles and badges issued to shuttle vehicles are valid for 07 years or upon request of the transport business unit (recommended period is from 01 year to 07 years) and do not exceed the vehicle's usage period;

- The "FIXED ROUTE VEHICLE" badge issued to extra vehicles to relieve passengers during Lunar New Year is valid for no more than 30 days; on holidays, New Year's Eve and National High School Exams, University and College Admissions is valid for no more than 10 days.

Application for car badge

Pursuant to Clause 4, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP, the application for a badge must ensure the following components:

- Application for badge issuance according to regulations;

- Copy of car registration or copy of appointment letter to receive car registration from the registration authority.

In case the vehicle is not owned by the transport business unit, a copy of one of the following documents must be presented: A written vehicle rental contract with an organization or individual or a service contract between a member and a cooperative or a business cooperation contract.

Procedures for granting car badges

Pursuant to Clause 5, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP regulating the procedures for granting badges

- The transport business unit shall submit 01 set of documents requesting the issuance of a badge to the Department of Transport that issued the Business License to the unit. In case the dossier needs to be amended or supplemented, the badge-issuing agency shall notify directly or in writing or via the online public service system the contents that need to be added or amended to the transport business unit within 01 working day from the date of receipt of the dossier;

- Within 02 working days from the date of receiving the correct application, the Department of Transport shall issue badges to vehicles upon request of the transport business unit. In case of refusal to issue, the Department of Transport shall respond in writing or via the online public service system and state the reasons.

The Department of Transport is responsible for updating information on the journey monitoring data system of the Vietnam Road Administration, conducting inspections and only issuing badges when the vehicle's journey monitoring device fully meets the regulations on installation and data transmission.

Receiving dossiers and returning results are done directly at the issuing agency or by post or other appropriate forms according to regulations. In case of receiving dossiers directly at the issuing agency or by post, the dossier receiving officer updates the dossier information in accordance with regulations into the online public service system of the Ministry of Transport .

The issuing authority shall process the application and issue the badge on the online public service system of the Ministry of Transport;

- The authority issues and checks information on the Certificate of technical safety and environmental protection inspection for automobiles to ensure that the vehicle is eligible for transportation business on the Vietnam Register system;

- The licensing authority checks information about the vehicle's status on the online public service system of the Ministry of Transport and the journey monitoring data system of the Vietnam Road Administration to perform the following cases:

If the vehicle is not yet on the system, issue a badge;

In case the vehicle is already on the system, the Department of Transport where the application is received will send information via the online public service system to the Department of Transport that is managing the vehicle to request confirmation and removal of the vehicle from the system. Within 02 working days, the Department of Transport must respond to the request. In case of disagreement to remove the vehicle's information, the reason must be clearly stated. The Department of Transport where the application is received will issue badges and signs after the vehicle is removed from the system.

Cases of vehicle license revocation

Pursuant to Clause 10, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP, a transport business unit shall have its badge or sign revoked in one of the following cases:

- Revoke badges and signs for all vehicles of a transport business unit when the transport business unit is subject to a penalty of revoking the right to use its Transport Business License by a competent authority;

- Revoke the badge and sign of the violating vehicle in cases where data extracted from the journey monitoring device of each vehicle in 01 month shows that there are 05 speed violations/1000 km of vehicle travel (not including cases of speed violations of 05 km/h or less);

- Revoke the badges of vehicles operating fixed-route transportation when the enterprise or cooperative does not operate transportation business on the route for 60 consecutive days.

Some other notes on car badge issuance

- The badge is reissued when it expires, when it is lost or damaged, when the vehicle owner or transport business unit changes. The dossier, order, procedures and authority to reissue the badge are implemented according to the above regulations. The validity period of the reissued badge is according to the provisions in Clause 2, Article 22 of Decree 10/2020/ND-CP mentioned above. In case of reissuing the badge when it expires, the transport business unit is requested to reissue the badge within 15 days from the date of expiration of the badge.

- The badge is reissued when revoked. After the badge revocation period has expired, if there is a need to continue using the vehicle for transportation business, the transportation business unit must complete procedures to be reissued the badge according to regulations. The dossier, order, procedures, and authority to reissue the badge shall comply with the above regulations.

- The dossier, order, procedures, and authority to issue and re-issue license plates for tourist passenger transport vehicles shall comply with the provisions of the Decree detailing a number of articles of the 2017 Law on Tourism ; in case of requesting re-issuance of a license plate due to revocation or deprivation of the right to use, the dossier must include additional documents proving that the violation causing the license plate to be revoked or deprived of the right to use must be remedied.

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