During the Lunar New Year, the traffic volume through expressways and road toll stations increases sharply. Vehicle owners and drivers need to clearly understand the regulations on non-stop electronic toll collection to avoid violations and penalties.
According to the provisions of Decree 336/2025/ND-CP and Decree 168/2024/ND-CP, violations related to electronic road traffic payments at non-stop toll stations are fined with many different levels.
Specifically, Decree 336/2025/ND-CP stipulates a fine of 3–5 million VND for individuals, from 6–10 million VND for organizations when committing one of the following acts: arbitrarily transferring terminal cards from one vehicle to another; destroying, forging, deleting data or interfering with terminal card content; opening or maintaining anonymous or impersonated traffic accounts.
Meanwhile, Decree 168/2024/ND-CP stipulates a fine of 2–3 million VND for drivers who do not meet the conditions for automatic non-stop electronic toll collection (vehicles without end-to-end tags) but still enter the lane reserved for non-stop toll collection at toll stations.
Therefore, before starting a tourist trip or returning to their hometown during Tet, especially when traveling through road toll stations, vehicle owners and drivers need to proactively check whether the vehicle has pasted a non-stop toll card or not; and at the same time convert the toll collection account to a traffic account in accordance with the provisions of Decree 119/2024/ND-CP on electronic road traffic payments. Intentional violations may cause people to face high fines right during Tet.
For units managing and operating toll stations, Decree 336/2025/ND-CP also stipulates many levels of penalties. Specifically, fines from 10–20 million VND are imposed for acts such as: not disclosing information as prescribed; selling and checking tickets in a timely manner, causing harassment to ticket buyers; not selling fully or limiting the selling time of monthly and quarterly tickets; receiving cash but not delivering tickets or delivering tickets improperly; lax professional procedures so that vehicles that do not buy tickets still pass through the station.
Fines ranging from 10–20 million VND for individuals, from 20–40 million VND for organizations are applied to more serious acts, including: non-compliance with management and operation procedures of stations leading to traffic accidents; issuance of toll collection documents to the wrong subjects or values; intrusion and sabotage of electronic payment systems; data theft, illegal interference in software and data.
For acts such as not reporting revenue, reporting incorrectly or not on time; not disclosing daily revenue; arbitrarily changing the collection level without the approval of competent authorities; not maintaining and inspecting equipment according to regulations; arbitrarily dismantling, liquidating, and selling toll station assets..., the proposed fine is from 30–50 million VND for organizations.
In the context of increased traffic volume during Tet, toll stations also need to pay special attention to operation to avoid being fined from 50–70 million VND if prolonged congestion occurs from 750m or more in the toll lane; vehicle time passing through the station exceeds 15 minutes; serious traffic accidents occur; not building or not fully implementing professional procedures on clearance, payment, reconciliation, electronic toll collection transactions; not synchronizing data according to regulations.
In addition, acts such as not managing the amount of money in the road use fee account separately, and misusing this source of money may also be fined from 80-100 million VND according to current regulations.
