Text file: 420.txt
author: "Igor Bo\u017Ei\u010D"
downvotes: 0
end consideration date: 2010-02-24
id: '420'
number comments: 11
number views: 6226
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: 'Response from the Ministry of Transport

  We have forwarded your proposal to the head of the working group for the preparation
  of the new Traffic Rules Act, Ms Brigita Miklavc from the Ministry of Transport.
  The Slovenian law on traffic offences does not provide for or does not allow for
  the permanent confiscation of a motor vehicle as a sanction for classical traffic
  offences. The situation is similar abroad, where temporary withdrawal of the motor
  vehicle is imposed for various offences. In view of the fact that the new Road Traffic
  Rules Act intends to extend the cases of offences where suspension of the motor
  vehicle is imposed, your proposal will also be fully examined within the Working
  Party. The working material of the law was published on the website of the Ministry
  of Transport on 2.4.2010, where you can follow the process and the content of the
  amendments. As regards weighing scales and control, we would like to point out that
  the Police currently have two sets of their own weighing scales, which are used
  by the Specialised Traffic Control Unit. One of the priority tasks of this unit
  is precisely the control of goods vehicles, which also includes weighing, and therefore
  these weighing scales are in use on a daily basis.  The Police also cooperates on
  a contractual basis with the company Cestel d.o.o., which carries out weighing operations
  at the Police Headquarters with approximately 40 teams per month. In cases where
  individual Cestel teams do not operate in the area of a particular Police Headquarters,
  the police officers of the aforementioned Police Headquarters may order weighing
  from Cestel''s contractors, which in practice means that at least one weighbridge
  is available in the area of each Police Headquarters, where the police officers
  may order weighing every working day in cases where there is an obvious overrun
  of the maximum permissible weight of the vehicles or the permissible total weight.
  In order to ensure efficient work in this area, the police are planning to purchase
  additional weighbridges, which will be mobile and easy to use, in accordance with
  financial possibilities. In 2009, the police detected 1443 infringements of the
  maximum permissible total weight or axle loads, an increase of 33% compared to 859
  infringements in 2008. The share of domestic hauliers in 2009 was 78%, which means
  that the main problem of overrun of GVW and axle loads is not in transit traffic,
  but on roads in the interior of the country and mainly with domestic hauliers. In
  2009, the police also detected 1,452 over-runs of the maximum permissible weight,
  an increase of 267% compared to the 543 detected in 2008. There was a significant
  increase in the proportion of foreign drivers who loaded their vehicles over the
  maximum authorised weight (182 infringements in 2008 and 921 in 2009). These infringements
  were found mainly in transit traffic, mainly by drivers of light goods vehicles.
  Based on the facts described above, we consider that it is not reasonable to increase
  controls at the entry points into the Republic of Slovenia or that controls should
  be targeted in a planned manner at areas where a higher number of violations related
  to overloading of vehicles are currently occurring. In addition to the above-mentioned
  controls, the police also carry out routine checks, which are a partial indicator
  of the situation on the ground, and we intend to continue this practice in the future.'
response date: 2010-04-02
response due date: null
sent date: 2010-01-25
title: Reducing the destruction of roads and motorways
upvotes: 23
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/420
