Генпрокуратура проверит работу дорожных весов АПВГК

The Prosecutor General's Office, following an appeal by the Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights, has begun an analysis of the legality of the use of automatic weight and dimensional control points by the APVGK on the country's roads. This is stated in the letter of the agency to the business ombudsman.

According to the association "Gruzavtotrans", thousands of complaints about incorrect operation of scales have been registered, as a result of which carriers receive unjustified fines of up to 500 thousand rubles. The association came to the conclusion that road owners improperly operate APVGK, this is reflected in the results of measurements, the letter to the prosecutor's office explains.

"The work of the APVGK depends largely on the quality of the roadbed in the measurement zone. When the car goes at speed, the wheel can bounce over bumps and hit the recording device, and the shock loads are noticeably higher than usual, and the error of readings will increase many times," the press service of 3PL-operator NC Logistic told Izvestia.

According to Vadim Filatov, President of the Association of Automobile Cargo Carriers and Forwarders "AvtoGruzEx", APVGCs often erroneously record the load. The weight of a vehicle may differ from the data of the automated system by 5-10%, he noted.

The Ministry of Transport considers the installation of APVGK as a priority area of control over the movement of heavy vehicles and is not going to abandon them, according to the response of the agency to the association "Gruzavtotrans" (available at "Izvestia"). To correct the shortcomings of the APVGK, the Ministry of Transport is working on a bill to create a unified federal state automated system of weight and dimensional control of vehicles (ASVGK), the response says.

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