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Freight workers are unable to transport cargo on their own, even if they pay a high price to buy a car.

To do that, you need a yellow license plate, which only transport companies have, and you need tens of thousands of won to rent a license plate.



Reporter Park Chan-beom covered the situation.



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A rectangular yellow license plate with a width of 44 and a height of 22 cm.



It is the existence of 'love and hate' for truck drivers.




These license plates can make a living, but all the disadvantages start here.



A license plate is like a license to be in the transportation business, but it is difficult for an individual driver to find it, so if you want to do cargo work, you have to go to a shipping company with multiple existing license plates.



[Kim Geun-sik / Freight Driver: Only license plates are borrowed, and we pay all the incidental expenses of the vehicle.]



However, the transport company demands tens of thousands of won in exchange for lending the license plates.



They make huge sums of money with license plates that are restricted by the state.



[Kim Geun-sik / Cargo Driver: The market price of license plates is about 18 million won and 20 million won these days. It's the first one.]



Besides, you have to pay another 300,000 won per month for license plate usage.



It is the title of license plate registration, driver training, etc.



In the case of a 25 ton truck, the price is about 200 million won, and the name of the truck I bought with my money in this way is also transferred to the transportation company while borrowing the license plate.



However, insurance premiums and taxes are all the responsibility of the driver.



[Kim Geun-sik / Cargo Driver: Simply put, I borrow the reporter's passbook. It's a cannon box. It's the same way.]



This problem occurs because the freight transportation business is a 'permission system'.



The government has not issued new permits since 2004, considering that the truck market is saturated.



In the end, in order for a truck driver to do transportation work, he has to sign a consignment contract with a company that owns license plates, and this is where the relationship begins.



One driver was asked to pay the license plate price when replacing it with a new truck even though he paid the license plate price 7 years ago.



[Kim Geun-sik / Cargo Reporter: If you want to put it back on the new car, you just need to loosen two screws and move it. 15 million won, 20 million won (requested.)] The



company legally has to guarantee the contract period for at least two years, but , and also unfairly expelling drivers to make money on license plates.



[Mr. Lee / Cargo driver: They use a clause that is advantageous to them, cut it off for one year, and threaten it like this... .] There



are over 200,000 workers who transfer the name of the vehicle I bought to a freight forwarder.



In order to protect them, there are voices that, like taxis, the right to drive should be guaranteed to truck drivers who have completed a certain career.



[Jae-Jong Nam/Director of Policy Bureau of Cargo Solidarity Headquarters: It is actually my property, so I need to be able to choose whether to apply for permission from the government individually or not… .]



In addition, in order to prevent damage, the item and amount of the monthly maintenance fee paid by the driver to the company must be strictly limited.



(Video coverage: Lee Seung-hwan, Hong Jong-su, video editing: Park Jeong-sam, CG: Kim Jong-un, Kang Yu-ra, Shim Soo-hyun)