Hanoi (VNA) - Allvehicles providing cargo and passenger transportation services must change fromwhite licence plates to yellow ones with black letters and numbers from August1, according to the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of PublicSecurity.
Thisnew regulation issued in Circular 58 would be applied for trucks, traditionaltaxis, cars and motorbikes, and also tech-based taxis and motorbikes. Theconversion for vehicles operating before August 1, 2020 must beimplemented until December 31, 2021.
Accordingto the Traffic Police Department, the nation has about 1.5 million passengercars and trucks expected to change to the yellow licence plates. Besides that,individual cars and motorbikes providing passenger transportation services alsoneed to implement the change.
Tech-basedcars and motorbikes also have to change their licence plates. When the vehiclesstop doing business, their owners can go to the vehicle registration agency tochange the yellow licence plates back to white.
Nguyen Van Quyen, chairman of the Vietnam AutomobileTransport Association, said there were many vehicles needing to change thecolour of licence plates from white to yellow, so the State agencies need tocreate favourable conditions for the change, avoiding impacts on the operationof companies and individuals providing transport services, especially in thecontext of economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic./.