In the 3rd draft of amending and supplementing Decree 168, the Ministry of Public Security proposed to add many new penalties, including violations that are fined up to 14 million VND.
Typically, the Ministry of Public Security proposed to supplement the regulation:
A fine of between 12,000,000 VND and 14,000,000 VND shall be imposed on drivers of cars not engaged in passenger transport business but carrying people for money or signing contracts, receiving reservations to carry people on the car.
According to the drafting agency, the addition of new acts to have a basis for handling acts arising in practice is to evade and "distort" the implementation of the provisions of law in Clause 17 Article 9 of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety; Clause 5 Article 7 of the Road Law.
The Ministry of Public Security also proposed to add a fine of between VND 5,000 and VND 10,000 for one of the following acts:
Driving a road rescue vehicle carrying a rescued vehicle that exceeds the permitted tonnage of the rescue vehicle; pulling a rescued vehicle that exceeds the permitted tonnage of the rescue vehicle recorded in the vehicle's technical safety and environmental protection certificate.
Driving a road rescue vehicle carrying or pulling a vehicle that is not damaged or has an incident.
Explaining this issue, the Ministry of Public Security said that the addition of missing acts is to be consistent with Article 54 of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety; as a basis for handling violations of taking advantage of rescue vehicles to transport and pull new vehicles with large sizes, which are at risk of causing traffic unsafety.
In the 3rd draft amendment of Decree 168, the Ministry of Public Security also proposed to fine from 5,000 VND to 6,000 VND for individuals, from 10,000 VND to 12,000 VND for organizations that are internal transport vehicle owners who commit one of the following violations:
Bringing a vehicle without a vehicle's journey monitoring device or having a device but the device is not working, not in accordance with regulations or falsifying the data of the vehicle's journey monitoring device.
Bringing a vehicle without a driver's image recorder or having a device but not recording, not storing data according to regulations or falsifying the data of the driver's image recorder installed on the car.
The drafting agency said that the proposal to supplement the act to have a basis for fining owners of internal transport vehicles for not installing equipment on cars according to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 35 of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety (amended and supplemented in 2025):
Cars engaged in freight transport business, cars engaged in passenger transport business with fewer than 08 seats (excluding the driver's seat), tractor trucks, ambulances, and internal transport vehicles must be equipped with journey monitoring devices and driver image recorders. Cars engaged in passenger transport business with 08 seats or more (excluding the driver's seat) must be equipped with journey monitoring devices, driver image recorders, and passenger compartment image recorders.
