How is vehicle overloading penalized?
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For passenger vehicles other than commercial buses and school buses, carrying passengers exceeding the approved number by less than 20% will result in a fine and 3 demerit points. Below is relevant information about overloading: 1. Hazards: Research shows that when a vehicle's axle load exceeds the standard load by one time, one trip on the road is equivalent to 256 trips by a standard vehicle on asphalt pavement or 65,536 trips on concrete pavement. Moreover, the larger the approved load capacity of the vehicle, the more severe the damage to the road caused by overloading. The maximum single rear axle load monitored in China reached 24 tons. One trip by such a vehicle on a concrete road is equivalent to 1.21 million trips by a standard vehicle. 2. Negative impacts: Overloading has caused significant harm to the healthy development of the transportation market. Overloading leads to market chaos, completely disrupting the basic pricing system of the transportation market. Under normal circumstances, transportation pricing is based on the cubic volume and weight of the goods. Overloaded vehicles severely pollute the atmospheric environment. To achieve greater traction, overloaded vehicles often drive at low gears with high throttle, resulting in incomplete fuel combustion in the engine, excessive exhaust emissions, excessive noise, and severe pollution of the atmospheric environment.
