Managing contract trucking requires businesses to fully comply with legal regulations. This article will analyze in detail the necessary conditions for vehicle management, drivers, and legal regulations to operate a contract trucking business plan effectively and compliantly.
Vehicle and Driver Management in Contract Trucking Plans
1. Managing Commercial Vehicles for Transportation:
- Ensure minimum good vehicle days: Applicable to fixed-route passenger transport and bus passenger transport, businesses need to ensure a minimum of 110% good vehicle days compared to the vehicle operating days according to the contract trucking business plan.
- Periodic maintenance: Implement periodic maintenance plans according to the regulations of the Ministry of Transport to ensure the technical safety of vehicles.
- Tracking and management: Use vehicle history records or management software to track vehicle operations, maintenance, and repairs according to the form specified in Appendix 4 of Circular 63/2014/TT-BGTVT.
- Regulations on 2-story sleeper buses: From July 1, 2015, the use of two-story sleeper buses for transportation on level 5 and level 6 mountainous roads is prohibited.
- Luggage compartment separation: From July 1, 2016, the luggage compartment of passenger transport vehicles operating on fixed routes, under contract, or for tourism must be divided into compartments according to regulations to ensure safety during transportation.
Luggage compartment separation in a passenger bus
2. Managing Commercial Drivers for Transportation:
- Professional history: Establish and update complete information about the driver’s work history in the Driver’s Professional History or management software according to the form specified in Appendix 5 of Circular 63/2014/TT-BGTVT.
- Periodic health checks: Organize health checks upon recruitment and periodically for drivers, ensuring that drivers are healthy enough according to the regulations of the Ministry of Health. Absolutely do not recruit or use drivers who use drugs.
- Driving experience: For passenger vehicles with a capacity of 30 seats or more, businesses must use drivers with at least 02 years of experience operating this type of vehicle, especially for 2-story sleeper buses.
Experienced driver operating a large passenger bus
Conditions for Contract Trucking Business
3. Conditions for Transportation Business Units:
- Business registration: Must register for transportation business by car in accordance with regulations.
- Vehicles: Ensure the quantity and quality of vehicles suitable for the type of business, under legal ownership or use rights. Vehicles must ensure technical safety, environmental protection, and be equipped with a journey monitoring device according to Decree 86/2014/ND-CP. In the case of vehicles owned by cooperative members, there must be a service contract between the member and the cooperative.
- Drivers and service staff: Drivers must not be prohibited from practicing, have a labor contract with the business unit. Service staff must be trained in professional skills and comply with legal regulations. For tourist transportation, staff must be trained in tourism nghiệp vụ.
- Transportation operator: Have professional qualifications in transportation from intermediate level or higher, or a college degree or higher in other economic and technical majors, and have a continuous working period at the transportation unit of 03 years or more.
- Parking space: Have a suitable parking space, ensuring traffic safety, fire prevention and fighting, and environmental hygiene.
- Organization and management: Equip computers and network connections to monitor and process information from journey monitoring devices. Arrange enough drivers, organize health checks, and use drivers who are in good health. For passenger vehicles with 30 seats or more, there must be service staff. Enterprises and cooperatives engaged in fixed-route passenger transportation, buses, taxis, and containers must have a department to manage and monitor traffic safety conditions.
Parking space for a fleet of trucks
Roadmap for Issuing Transportation Business Licenses
4. Roadmap for issuing Business Licenses for types not yet licensed: Decree 86/2014/ND-CP stipulates the roadmap for issuing transportation business licenses for types not yet licensed before the Decree takes effect, specifically according to each milestone for different types of trucks with different tonnage.
Conclusion
A contract trucking business plan requires thorough preparation in all aspects, from vehicle and driver management to compliance with legal regulations. Meeting all the above conditions will help businesses operate efficiently, sustainably, and ensure the safety of passengers and goods. Contact Xe Tải Mỹ Đình for more detailed advice on suitable transportation business plans.
