Vietnam Removes Nearly 21,000 Outdates Cars

Vietnam Removes Nearly 21,000 Outdates Cars

The Vietnam Register (VR) says that it has cooperated with the traffic police force to remove 20,783 outdated automobiles from February 1, 2005 under the government’s Decree 23.

Eradicated vehicles include trucks of over 29 years old, passenger cars of over 23 years old, old special vehicles and vehicles without an exact manufacturing date.

To know when vehicles are made competent authorities would use a range of factors including vehicle identification numbers (VINs), technical records such as catalogs, technical handbooks, computer-assisted software packages, producers’ information, and archives.

However, according to local media, it is hard to remove all outdated cars because car owners normally refuse to arrive at registration centers for technical checkups once their cars are out-of-date.

For example, only 10 out of 107 outdated cars in northern Vinh Phuc province have shown up for the final death sentence. Also one out of 23 in northern Son La province, five out of 50 in Hoa Binh province and nine out of 133 in Yen Bai province have abided by the governmental decree.

In many provinces such as Cao Bang and Lai Chau, no old car owners arrived in registration centers to verify their cars.

According to Mr Le Hai Linh, a transport authority from Cao Bang province, outdated cars are now operating in remote areas to avoid the reach of the authority.

Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, has required all level authorities to join forces to keep old cars off the street. However, until now 95 per cent of 664 out-of-date cars were reported missing.