Unified Register of Road Carriers of Russia

2024: The Russian government supported the bill on the creation of a unified register of cargo carriers

The Russian government supported the bill on the creation of a single register of cargo carriers and the establishment of new requirements for the admission of carriers to the domestic freight transport market. This was announced on June 18, 2024 by the Interfax agency. The register will include information about carriers and their vehicles and will become available for public use.

According to Interfax, bill No. 595821-8 was introduced by the head of the State Duma Committee on Transport Yevgeny Moskvichev in April 2024. The new register will not affect international road transportation and vehicles designed to transport goods with a maximum weight of up to 3.5 tons.

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As the newspaper notes, the bill introduces qualification requirements for the admission of carriers to the domestic freight road transportation market. The unified register, which will be maintained by Rostransnadzor, should include data on carriers engaged in commercial transportation of goods and on their cars. The register will be posted on the official website of the EDS operator GosLog, operating from April 1, 2024.

According to Interfax, in order to be included in the register, carriers will have to confirm their financial viability, which implies the absence of debts on taxes, fees and other mandatory payments to the budget of the Russian Federation. The government also proposed to strengthen the requirements for the financial viability of carriers, including the absence of fines for violating traffic rules and the use of tachographs.

The government has proposed moving the law's effective date from March 1, 2025, to September 1, 2025, to give carriers more time to prepare. According to Interfax, the financial and economic justification for the bill will assess the need to increase the staff of Rostransnadzor and additional federal budget funds for the implementation of the powers provided for by the bill.^[1]

2020: Creation of a unified database of state-rate road carriers

At the end of August 2020, it became known that the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation creates a single database of road carriers with state rating. The main evaluation criteria will be the reliability of the driver's composition and technical serviceability of vehicles.

According to Izvestia, the rating will allow users to choose a bona fide carrier with no concern for the quality of the provided services and will motivate carriers to maintain a high level of maintenance. The press service of the Ministry of Transport added that the rating will not some kind of tightening, on the contrary, many checks will turn into more convenient format.

The Ministry of Transport is developing a unified database of road carriers with state rating

The department calls the security problem very acute road traffic in the organization of commercial automobile transportation. Among the most significant problems in the organization's system bus transportation in the Ministry of Transport indicated non-compliance with the established safety rules, wear of rolling stock, as well as presence on regular routes of illegal carriers. Meanwhile, in companies, carrying out cargo transportation, increasingly use their own transport, not cars of specialized organizations.

Experts interviewed by the publication agree that control over carriers needs to be expanded. Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Construction lower house of parliament Alexander Starovoitov said that together with full digital profile of carriers must be implemented and digital driver profile so organizations can hire to trace the entire history of a potential applicant.

Chairman of the trade union of road transport workers and road facilities of the Moscow region Lyudmila Emelianenko, in her queue, believes that the Ministry of Transport needs to analyze the work owners of passenger businesses, because often companies run by people who know nothing about transport security, occupational health and safety in the industry and transportation regulations.^[2]

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