Expert Cargo transportation in Russia: dangers, bureaucracy and weight limits
Automatic points of weight and size control are located almost throughout the territory of the Russian Federation on federal roads
Freight transport - dangerous, difficult, emotionally and financially costly. For the owner of a truck, in addition to titanium nerves, you need to have a very voluminous wallet. Every kilometer traveled by his train devastates not only the fuel tank and nerves, but also, as it seems to many, a voluminous bank account.
On the roads of Russia, the carrier is waiting for:
- High prices for fuel and spare parts;
- severe climatic conditions;
- a roadway of questionable quality;
- field of legal science - Code of Administrative Offences (CAP RF).
In addition to burning nerve cells, equivalent to the fuel consumption of a loaded truck, you have to spend on minor repairs at each parking lot.
Weight control is a myth or a reality?
Every large city has a weight control framework for the owner of a truck. For truck drivers, a weight control framework - It is a creature from another planet: everyone suspects its existence, but it is almost impossible to see it on the vast snowy roads of Russia.
Only a week after the flight, the owner informs the driver that he encountered this frame. The driver swears that he did not notice it, and the fault often lies with the owner: he slept sweetly while the driver was driving through winter Siberia.
How weight control works
Automatic points of weight and size control are located almost throughout the territory of the Russian Federation on federal roads. They:
- fix weight and dimensions in motion;
- send data to a single information center;
- help make decisions on bringing the carrier to administrative responsibility.
Only the carrier is liable, bypassing the shipper.
Why there are wrongful penalties
The reasons are often related to technical and procedural problems:
- errors in sensor calibration;
- incorrect interpretation of data from cameras and frames;
- failures in the transmission of information to a single information center;
- errors in the identification of the vehicle;
- poor condition of the roadway.
Fines may be unlawful, as evidenced by numerous court decisions.
Judicial bureaucracy
It’s one thing to get an administrative offence, another. - Cancell it.
An example from our practice:
- 25.03.2025 - State inspector of MTU Rostransnadzor for the Central Federal District found the individual entrepreneur guilty under Part 2 of Art. 12.21.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation and imposed a fine of 375,000 rubles.
- 21.02.2025 - The driver of Kamaz as part of a five-axle road train violated traffic rules: excess of the load on the axles by 3-10% (measurement error of 10%).
The individual entrepreneur did not agree:
- the shipper's scales are more accurate;
- other frameworks did not record a violation;
- Normative legal acts do not contain formulas for calculating the load on axes.
The average axle load, as calculated by the applicant, was 7,455 kg with a permissible 10 tonnes.
Labyrinths of the judicial system
The individual entrepreneur filed a complaint with the Moscow Arbitration Court. The court decided that at the time of the violation he did not carry out entrepreneurial activity, and referred the case to the court of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow. After several months, the case was redirected to the Kemerovo region.
During this time, the entrepreneur had the opportunity to:
- appeal the decision to a higher authority;
- apply to the district court at the place of consideration of the case;
- Protect your rights through arbitration courts.
Today, ten months after bringing to administrative responsibility, there is no procedural decision in the case. The individual entrepreneur went through all stages: from denial to acceptance.
Expert contact:
Sidorenko Olga Sergeevna
Head of the contract department of LLC "PRO ZAKON"
Phone:+7 923 100 55 72
Website:prozakon54.ru
