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person entrusting the cargo transportation says that the safe fare system should be abolished because of the cost burden, but truck drivers say that it is very effective.

You can drive more safely because you are not pressed for time and money than before.



Reporter Jo Ki-ho continued to discuss the issues surrounding the safe fare system.



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major traffic accident caused by a truck.



Overloading and speeding are frequently cited as the cause of accidents, and truck drivers have complained that it is because of the low transportation cost.



In fact, before the safety fare system was implemented, 750,000 won one way was set for transporting containers from Busan to Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, but it disappeared for various reasons and the driver only received 450,000 won.



[Park Yeon-soo / Head of Cargo Solidarity Policy Planning Department: It is a situation in which freight workers have to drive unreasonably in order to cover these cost costs such as car installments and fuel costs.

Because the fare is poor...

.]



So, let's take a look at safety, we introduced a safe freight rate only in the container and cement sector with a three-year time limit from 2020.



The union claims its own investigations have shown it to have worked.



When I asked about 400 truck drivers, the response that they had experienced overloading decreased by one-third, and the percentage that they had tried speeding also decreased from 32% to 20%.



According to an analysis conducted by the Korea Transportation Research Institute on behalf of the government, the income of truck drivers up to doubled and the hours worked on the contrary decreased by 5-11%.



In addition, accidents with special trucks decreased by 2.3% and overload by 1.3%, respectively.



However, speeding increased by 1.8%, and the number of deaths increased, but he said that there was a limit to the effect analysis due to the short implementation period.



While there are subtle differences in effectiveness, shippers object that shipping costs have risen from 32% to up to 72%.



So, 84% of drivers wanted to keep the system, but 80% of shippers wanted it to end.



Truck drivers view the freight rate system as a minimum safety device, but shippers are fighting against the fact that they are less competitive due to increased logistics costs.



(Video editing: Park Ji-in, CG: Ryu Sang-soo, Eom So-min, VJ: Jeong Young-sam)



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