No traffic! Why is pickup ETC illegal?

These two years are the first year of the development of high-speed ETC in China. Since the cancellation of provincial toll stations, ETC has gained very rapid popularity. At the beginning of development, ETC was originally designed to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce the waste of human resources. However, under the fast-paced market share plunder, the reaction of capital exceeded most people's expectations.

A piece of news recently exposed the illegal promotion methods of some unscrupulous merchants. The thing is, my high school classmate is a pickup truck owner. He drove into the ETC lane normally at high speed, but this time he didn't lift the pole as usual. Instead, the high-speed staff told him that this was an illegally labeled vehicle and was forced to cancel and stop using ETC.

He called the relevant departments in a muddled way, and the official answer was: "The official attribute label of its pickup truck is truck, but its registration label is passenger car, and the vehicle information does not match the real car, so it is forbidden to use it. Now I have to go to the outlet to cancel the ETC label and re-apply for the truck ETC. "

For this official characterization, the owner said that he was speechless. I asked him where to install it, and he said, "Last year, I saw many banks' pickup trucks and ETC promotions in the community, which can be installed at home for free and returned in cash. In order to be reliable, he chose a big bank to register and install, without thinking about taking any loopholes. Moreover, when the official came to the door, the staff also clearly informed him that the pickup ETC registration process and procedures were legal. Now it is forced to "violate the law", and what he said is very puzzling.

In the face of the owner's query, I also launched relevant consultation and investigation.

At the beginning of last year, the installation rate of ETC in China was less than 35%, and the export utilization rate of ETC in expressways was less than 45%. After the implementation of the policy of canceling provincial toll stations, the utilization rate of high-speed non-stop should reach more than 90%, which means that ETC will have a rapid development opportunity.

There is a big difference between car ETC and truck ETC in the actual installation and use process, and car ETC has a wider audience and relatively simple technical process, so it has become the focus of national promotion, while truck ETC is relatively lagging behind because of OBU units and other reasons.

Taking Beijing as an example, the standardized installation of the actual truck ETC has been popularized since the fourth quarter of last year, but the car ETC can be installed at any time.

While all kinds of capitals are plundering the market share of ETC, some capitals have exploited the loopholes of ETC rules. Before the popularization of truck ETC, car ETC was installed on trucks such as pickup trucks by tampering with vehicle information to seize the share. The owner mentioned above is suffering from this concept of stealing.

Conclusion: Reasonable and legal competition is the bottom line that an enterprise should abide by, and the road of exploiting loopholes in rules by stealing concepts is doomed to go far. If there is something similar to the above owner's situation, please change the vehicle label quickly to avoid affecting the use.