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A transport ministry spokesperson. The ministry plans to impose the administrative penalties under the Road Transport Vehicle Law starting in late November.
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Businesses operating trucks, taxis and buses will soon become subject to administrative penalties if their drivers tailgate other vehicles.
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Mickelicious
If laws are so piecemeal, fragmented and labyrinthine, it's little wonder their policing is so lax.
wanderlust
Highway and road traffic police are never around when these offences are commited; only a few drive recorders have rearward-facing recording capability to collect the evidence; and police seem to ignore commercial vehicle offences unless they are involved in a crash.
uktokyo
Taxi drivers have access to the best lawyers who will wriggle them out of any traffic violation.