Road tolls: Garages claim to raise rates
In the early days of implementing road maintenance fees with cars, Da Nang has more than 500 means of paying fees. But freight and passenger businesses note that maintenance fees will have an impact on transportation costs, especially on the Lunar New Year 2013.
In the afternoon of January 6, Mr. Nguyen Huong, Director of Danang Motor Vehicle Registration Center (Danang Department of Transport), said that in the first week of 2013, the center had 510 cars in the area. payment of road maintenance fees, stamps.
After the car inspection and registration procedures, if the vehicle meets the requirements, the unit instructs the car owner to pay a fee. In addition, there are vehicles not yet registered but paid fees collected by the center in accordance with Circular 197 Ministry of Finance.
Due to the preparation, training for the staff, propaganda to the car owners, most of them are self-realization. Particularly motorcycles, motorcycles, by the commune and ward to take charge and wait for the City Council approved fees, "said Huong.
According to the passenger car transport, road maintenance charges will be raised on the peak before the Lunar New Year 2013 so many cars will massively raise rates on Tet. Every year, fare at the summit is usually increased by 40-60%, but this year, units expecting at least this increase will add 10%. Le Viet Hoang, General Director of Da Nang City Bus Station, said: "The price of passenger tickets for Tet holiday is waiting for appraisal. This year, due to many impacts, the peak fare price tends to increase sharply. Thus, hundreds of charges "head down" people.
According to Circular 197, the road maintenance fee for cars, the lowest from 130,000 VND / month, the highest is over 1 million / month.
Many carriers say that this maintenance cost increases the cost of transportation to offset the cost of inputs.
Nguyen Van Anh, head of luxury car company Ngoc Anh (Da Nang - Hanoi), said: "The company has nearly ten vehicles, based on this fee, each year the unit makes up over 100 million pay the fee. The unit is calculating to submit the plan to increase the fare to suit.
Currently, only the Da Nang-Hanoi route, the price of 380,000 VND / way / customer (food). However, according to the owners of this line: With the number of passengers to meet 60-70% of beds / seats, many car trips do not compensate.
It is expected that the level of passenger transport tickets will increase by more than 10%.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Thuy, Director of Song Toan Co., Ltd. (Da Nang) said that with 36 tractors and nearly one hundred trailers, the company spent several billion dong each year to pay maintenance fees the set. In the context of difficult business, this burden is not small. Sure customers must share.
Tran Viet Hoe, Chairman of the Da Nang Passenger Transport Association, said that the disadvantage is that the fee is charged on the vehicle's head, but not any vehicle is purchased for use. Instant.
Therefore, it is necessary to study in the long term to change the form of collection by the means by directly collecting through gasoline. "The additional road maintenance fees, which will increase freight rates, passengers increase, at least 5-7%," said Hoe.
Road tolls will be collected by bank transfer
On January 7, the Ministry of Transport said that in the first week has collected more than 51 billion of more than 25 thousand vehicles. Despite the phenomenon of parking cars to test and pay fees, but resolved definitely.
The units have completed the process of collecting fees, paid receipts and stamps using land roads for cars to pay fees and are coordinating with banks to install equipment, install programs to Charge via bank transfer or debit card.
According to the Ministry of Communications and Transport, the first days of implementation show that the users of the means have initially complied with the regulations on the payment of road tolls, determine liability and have no pressing charges. Many owners of vehicles have not yet expired but have paid to pay for the use of roads, the transport agencies do procedures for payment of funds transfer to multiple means of the unit.
The Ministry of Transport said only cars that meet the technical safety and environmental protection standards are allowed to carry out procedures to pay fees and stamps using the road. For accredited cars only to pay the fee will be processed immediately.