Four types of vehicles are required to install journey monitoring devices

Decree No. 151 of the Government clearly stipulates 4 types of vehicles that are required to install journey monitoring devices.

According to regulations, commercial transport vehicles, tractor-trailers, ambulances, and road traffic rescue vehicles must be equipped with journey monitoring devices that ensure technical requirements according to the provisions of the National Technical Regulation on journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices.

Commercial transport vehicles, tractor trailers, ambulances, and road rescue vehicles must be equipped with journey monitoring devices.

Information and data collected from journey monitoring devices installed on commercial transport vehicles, tractor-trailers, ambulances, and road traffic rescue vehicles serve the work of ensuring security, order, and road traffic safety and handling of violations of the law, state management of road transport and are connected and shared with the Ministry of Transport (Vietnam Road Administration), Departments of Transport of provinces and centrally run cities and relevant agencies according to the provisions of law.

Decree No. 151/2024/ND-CP also stipulates that passenger cars with 8 seats or more (excluding the driver's seat) used for transport business, tractor-trailers, ambulances, and road traffic rescue vehicles must be equipped with driver image recording devices that ensure technical requirements according to the provisions of the National Technical Regulation on journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices.

The Decree clearly states that the management, use of equipment, transmission, provision, updating, storage and use of data collected from journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices shall comply with the provisions of law on management, operation and use of data management systems for journey monitoring devices and driver image recording devices.

Decree No. 151 takes effect from January 1, 2025.

According to assessments, the use of journey monitoring devices has contributed to reducing traffic accident rates as well as the average speed violation rate per 1,000km.

Specifically, in 2015 this rate was 11.5 times/1,000km, by 2022 it will decrease to 0.75 times/1,000km, a decrease of 15 times compared to 2015.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/bon-loai-phuong-tien-bat-buoc-lap-thiet-bi-giam-sat-hanh-trinh-19224121218084727.htm