What is the penalty for carrying 8 people in a 7-seater vehicle?
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Carrying 8 people in a 7-seater vehicle constitutes an overloading offense and is subject to corresponding fines. Below is relevant information about overloading: 1. Hazards: Research shows that when a vehicle's axle load exceeds the standard load by one time, driving on the highway once is equivalent to a standard vehicle driving on asphalt pavement 256 times or on cement concrete pavement 65,536 times. Moreover, the larger the vehicle's rated load capacity, the more severe the damage to the road caused by overloading. The maximum single rear axle load recorded in China is 24 tons. Such a vehicle driving on a cement highway once is equivalent to a standard vehicle driving 1.21 million times. 2. Negative impacts: Overloading causes significant harm to the healthy development of the transportation market. It 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 cargo. Overloaded vehicles also severely pollute the atmospheric environment. To gain greater traction, overloaded vehicles often drive at low gears with high throttle, resulting in incomplete fuel combustion in the engine. This leads to excessive exhaust emissions, excessive noise, and severe pollution of the atmospheric environment.
