Car tailgate standards should keep up with demand

Recently, the reporter noticed that in certain regions there were heavy penalties imposed on the freight trains by the road management department for loading and unloading the tailgate of the freight vehicles, and vehicles with tailgates could not pass the annual inspection by the vehicle management department, which gave normal production to many enterprises. Business has brought great trouble. In response, the reporter interviewed the person in charge of the light truck sales company, the logistics industry experts, and some car sales cranes, to understand the current status of the installation of car lifts and tailgates and the difficulties faced in installing car tailgates.

Different needs in different regions

The largest use of car lifts and tailgates is the logistics industry, such as urban distribution, highway express, cold chain logistics and other emerging logistics areas. Corresponding to this, the regions with different degrees of development of the logistics industry have different requirements for the car's takeoff and landing. The reporter has learned that the economically developed areas such as Kitakami-eup, etc. have a greater demand for car lifts and tails, and are rarely used in relatively backward areas. The reporters contacted four car sales companies located in Beijing, Guangdong, Hebei, and Anhui and found that both car sales companies in Beijing and Guangdong have a certain number of vehicles with car tailgates installed and sold. However, automobile sales companies in Hebei and Anhui have not sold similar models. In addition, a person in charge of a car tailgate sales company in Henan told reporters that the current situation of tailgate sales is very bad, and that it would be good to sell two pieces a year.

With the development of our country’s economy, the logistics industry, especially in the central and western regions, has further expanded its logistics industry, and the market’s demand for automotive tailgates will increase further. At the same time, the use of car lift tailgates to load cargo can greatly improve the efficiency of the logistics industry. Therefore, it is of great significance to solve the problems still existing in the installation of automotive lifts and tailgates, and to promote the development of the logistics industry and help the development of the market economy.

The predicament of installing automobile tailgate

According to statistics, the vehicles equipped with tailgates are mainly van trucks and mainly light trucks. The use of tailgate vehicles is mainly a logistics company. Due to the fast speed, high efficiency, and labor saving of loading cargo on the tailgate, the tailgate is favored by logistics companies that need to load and unload cargo many times in a short period of time. According to statistics, since 2008, the demand for car lifts and tails has continued to increase. Liu Wei, manager of Dongguan Nanyu Junyu Motors, said: “In the vehicles we sell, about 5% of the total number of vehicles are equipped with tailgates. Customers’ requests for additional tailgates are mainly considered from the perspective of saving manpower, because After loading the tailgate, loading and unloading can be completed by one person. Considering that workers are not easy to find and the labor costs are getting higher and higher, customers choose to install the tailgate."

However, from the aspect of policies, transport companies are facing difficulties in installing automobile tailgates.

According to the "Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China," it is stipulated that no unit or individual may arbitrarily change the structure, structure and characteristics of motor vehicles that have been registered. At the same time, the “Regulations on Registration of Motor Vehicles” stipulates that if a changed shape and related data of a registered motor vehicle are changed, the change procedure will not be handled. In addition, the proportion of vehicles that require the installation of automobile tailgates to the total sales of vehicles is relatively small. Enterprises have not elected to install tailgates when they declare product announcements. Therefore, vehicles that have been installed with tailgates have been identified by the highway and transportation departments as Illegal conversions are not subject to annual inspection or change procedures. Users in some areas had to dismantle the tailgate for annual inspections. Therefore, adding a tailgate to the vehicle brings many unnecessary troubles to the user.

Regarding the plight of installing automobile tailgates, Liu Wei said: “The dilemma facing the installation of automobile tailgates should be understood in terms of both technology and policy: there is basically no technical problem. The technical content of tailgates is not too high. Some of the core components are imported products, so the quality of the tailgate can be guaranteed.In addition, the competition in the tailgate market is fierce, and various suppliers will also endeavor to make their products better. In terms of policy, the installation is now added. The tailgate can only be called post-installation, and the newly-purchased vehicle can't add the tailgate and then go to the license plate, because there is no tailgate in the vehicle model announcement. After the tailgate was removed, it was checked last year. However, when the vehicle was on the road, the traffic police department could still understand the phenomenon of tailgate. Therefore, one eye was closed and one eye was closed. I rarely encountered it because of the tail. The customer who was punished for the board."

Yang Changqi, general manager of Beijing Tiantong Yuejin Trading Co., Ltd., told the reporter: “The tailgate of the Beijing Automobile Co., Ltd. is installed after the license plate is added, because the installation of the tailgate is a retrofit. It is a modification of the vehicle. After the board, there will be no problem with the road and the annual inspection."

Retrofitting the tailgate is a mature technology. Because the modified part of the tailgate is mainly in the rear beam of the vehicle, the impact on the vehicle structure is limited. Especially in the case of a large market demand, it is somewhat outdated to still define the tailgate as an illegal modification. Whether it is the traffic police who open their eyes, close their eyes, or tacitly approve the installation of the tailgate for annual inspections, they are actually carried out outside the rules, and the relationship is still unreasonable. This is for the development of the automobile industry and the logistics industry. There are some potential adverse effects.

Standard and actual disconnect

The use of automobile tailgates can increase the loading efficiency and reduce the cost, so the automobile tailgate is favored by the logistics industry. As the relationship is not straightened, it will inconvenience customers who use the tailgate. What are the reasons for the embarrassing situation that leads to the installation of automobile tailgates?

“The problem with tailgates today is not technical issues but management issues. The key to management issues lies in the standards. There are two types of tailgates in automobiles; one is that the original vehicle is installed; the second is the later modification. The original vehicle carries the tail. The board's vehicles should be in the product announcement catalogue, but now there are few vehicles with tailgate catalogues, which is a defect.As for the later refitting, it is a business that has increased dramatically with the rapid development of the logistics industry. There is no corresponding standard for the tailgate, so there is no legal modification channel for installing the tailgate, and the vehicle tailgate must be registered with the vehicle management authority for registration of the vehicle modification. Due to the lack of modification standards for the tailgate of the automobile, the modification of the tailgate of the automobile is registered. Can not handle.” China Logistics Association deputy director Mian Mian said: “The installation of the car tailgate without legal conversion procedures is actually an illegal act, but the current market demand is very large, there are a large number of companies in the installation of car tail In the face of this situation, the traffic police department did not prevent the installation of car tailgates."

The vehicle with tailgate in the original vehicle meets the requirements of the standard in China, but its output is far from meeting the market demand. For this issue, Min Mian thought: “Now that although some car manufacturers have already applied for an announcement, car manufacturers apply for two announcements for each vehicle, that is, one tailgate and one tailgate, so the cost will increase a lot. ."

In the final analysis, the problem of the tailgate is a standard issue. When the standards and actual conditions are out of touch, it will cause inconvenience to the vehicle management department and the traffic management department, and it also brings to the users who require tailgates represented by logistics companies. Many troubles.

Should actively develop modification standards

Today's society is a society ruled by law and a society ruled by rules. Formulating standards and rules that are consistent with reality and keeping pace with the times are of great significance to market economy and social development.

In the face of the lack of car tailgate modification standards, SuiMian proposed two suggestions: “First, the addition of tailgates to vehicles is an important orientation in the current market to improve logistics efficiency and reduce logistics costs. The current problem is the lag in state management. , From the national standard formulation to the management of the relevant departments, the management of the retrofitting is lagging behind, so the state should bear responsibility for this problem. I suggest that a transitional period be set up at present, during which the vehicle will no longer be punished for installing tailgates. Instead, the filing system should be adopted to allow vehicles with tailgates to be sent to the traffic control department for a record, but it is not required to modify the driving permit.The filing guarantees that vehicles will not be penalized in the transitional period. Second, the state should actively develop appropriate vehicles. After the tailgate modification standard is established, the technology, procedures, procedures, documents, etc. for the modification of the tailgate shall be established, and the tailgate of the vehicle shall be modified into a regular modification procedure."