According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, the plan to modernize the road fleet and launch the system was launched on June 26, with the presence of Mohammad Eslami, Minister of Roads and Urban Development, at the Roads and Transportation Organization.

According to this plan, in the first phase, fifty-three thousand units of worn-out commercial fleets of roads will be renovated.

Details of the renovation plan with second-hand imports

Also, according to the instructions prepared by the Roads and Transportation Organization in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry for this project, importers can scrap a used truck with a maximum life of three years from reputable European, Korean or Korean manufacturers for scrapping any truck over 40 years old. Japanese enter the country.

The quota set for the import of these heavy vehicles is one thousand units per order registration for domestic car companies, one hundred units for transport companies and ten units for individuals.

The latest status of the worn-out road transport fleet

Surveys show that there are about one million nine hundred and fifty thousand trucks in the country. Of these, five hundred and seventy-six thousand and fifty-five trucks inside and outside the city of the total fleet of the country are worn out, which constitute about thirty percent of the fleet.

During the last twenty years, according to the measures taken to modernize the fleet, in total, only twenty-four thousand five hundred and eighty-eight worn-out heavy vehicles have been renovated by the end of last year.

In the road section (suburban), the total number of active trucks is three hundred and forty-six thousand and twenty-four and forty-three with an average life of nineteen years. Meanwhile, the number of trucks over twenty-two years is one hundred and seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-one devices, which is equivalent to thirty-one percent of the suburban fleet.

A project that did not start failed

Fifty-three thousand trucks over forty years to be upgraded under the plan make up 15 percent of heavy road vehicles.

Forty-eight days after the project began, no success has been achieved so far, and it seems that not a single second-hand European truck has replaced the worn-out trucks operating on the roads.

Where did the so-called presidential / $ 1 billion National Development Fund project go?

In the past years (late eleventh and early twelfth years), a presidential plan was launched to modernize the road transport fleet, according to which one hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred and fifty types of vehicles were to be built. Heavy and semi-heavy public roads, both freight and passenger, will be renovated using the $ 12 billion facility of the National Development Fund.

In this plan, fifty percent of the renovation cost was paid by the government free of charge, and the other fifty percent was provided in the form of a combination of bank facilities with an interest of eighteen percent and the applicant's cash income equal to twenty percent of the vehicle price.

Twenty-five thousand applicants enrolled in the scheme, and $ 1 billion was transferred from the National Development Fund to operating banks to provide facilities; But the continuation of this plan remained in a haze of ambiguity.

Automotive Economist: The fleet modernization plan was the pinnacle of government inefficiency

Farbod Zaveh, an expert in automotive economics, said about the reason for the failure of the road fleet modernization plan (presidential plan): "This plan is a symbol of the management inefficiency of the 11th government and shows that like other big projects that failed and could not even start, it failed."

He continued: "From the beginning, I believed that the road fleet modernization plan was not feasible. And our passenger did not reach fifty thousand; During these years, when we could not produce even ten thousand units of heavy and semi-heavy vehicles, including intercity buses, minibuses, trucks, vans, etc., the failure of this plan was quite obvious.

Automakers are the main obstacle to modernizing the road fleet

The economist added: "This plan was handed over to the Ministry of Silence within the framework of implementation, and since this ministry was seeking to secure the interests of the two car giants, it delayed its implementation so much that we suddenly faced heavy sanctions and a fourfold increase in the exchange rate;" In such a way that we have to buy a Chinese Volvo twice the price of the trucks of the European company FH; After that, the prices reached such a level that the trucks could no longer afford to buy; At present, domestic automakers produce and sell a maximum of one thousand trucks a year.

"The project has failed and we are still burning large volumes of subsidized energy carriers on the roads from worn-out trucks," Zaveh said. The same thing happened with the renovation of the worn-out tissue, and many times senior government officials and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development talked about the implementation of projects worth tens of billions of dollars, but in practice we did not see the renovation of the worn-out tissue.

He stressed: "Meanwhile, the $ 1 billion task allocated from the National Development Fund to implement the road fleet modernization plan is unclear, and it is not clear why these figures given to companies and banks did not become a new car."

Second hand import plan / Why was a monopoly created for some people?

The economist also said about the new renovation plan using the import of second-hand cars: "This plan has also faced problems and there is no news of its implementation so far;" The reason is that they gave the import of trucks to car manufacturers; However, their interests demand that the import of second-hand trucks be delayed.

"Importing second-hand trucks is a good short-term measure for the critical dilapidated condition of the road fleet," he said. But with the current process, it is unlikely that this plan will be as successful as the previous ones; Why can an automaker import a thousand vehicles to place an order, but truck owners only ten? What unique after-sales service do automakers offer? The only one who loses is the truck driver.

Secretary of the Truckers' Association: The failure of the plan to import second-hand goods led to a 30% increase in the price of trucks

Ahmad Karimi, secretary of the Truckers' Association, said that the plan to modernize the road fleet using the import of second-hand European trucks has not been successful so far. "When the plan was announced, there was a 10 percent drop in the price of second-hand trucks," he said. But over time, it has once again seen a 20 to 30 percent increase in the price of second-hand trucks operating on the road.

He continued: "Another reason for the failure of this plan was that car companies, in order to secure their interests, are throwing stones at it and in the name of defending domestic production, they are throwing stones at it so that they can import second-hand European trucks." To monopolize. While the ability of our domestic automakers to modernize their worn-out road fleet is very low.

The union activist stressed that everyone should be allowed to import second-hand trucks; On the other hand, it has been said that the import currency of these trucks must be provided from abroad and it is not possible to supply the currency from inside; This means that a person intending to import European second-hand trucks must leave the country and personally import from Sweden or Germany, as the two countries with the largest number of heavy road vehicles, trucks up to three years of construction; In practice, however, this is not possible, and trade unions must nominate a broker to represent worn-out truck owners.

Truckers have no assets other than these worn-out vehicles

Referring to the elimination of granting bank facilities to the owners of worn-out trucks in this plan, he said: the owners of the worn-out fleet have no property other than these worn-out vehicles; While according to the designers of this plan, the owners of worn-out trucks have to spend one billion and three hundred million tomans to be able to import a second-hand European truck; They can only import the "head" of the car and have to spend another three hundred million tomans to provide "insole", "bunker", "tanker" or other types of tracks or truck connections.

Karimi criticized the unnecessary demands for the implementation of this project by various stakeholders, noting that a meeting will be held on Tuesday this week at the Ministry of Industry with the presence of representatives of trade unions, the Ministry of Roads and Automakers to facilitate the implementation of this project; Quotas for the import of second-hand trucks should be lifted and any importer with access to foreign exchange earned should be allowed to import second-hand trucks to Europe.

How are European used trucks identified?

He emphasized on how to identify European used cars: in Europe, transport companies are constantly looking to modernize their fleets and want to use heavy vehicles produced in the same year; Therefore, manufacturers are informed that they are ready to modernize their fleet using the delivery of second-hand trucks; Manufacturers also sell second-hand trucks to countries where they want to buy them after inspection and overhaul.

If import tariffs are zero, the government can offset its costs by saving on fuel consumption

Regarding the customs tariff, the truckers' union activist said: "In the instructions prepared by the highway department, it has been announced that scrapping each worn-out truck will result in a 25 percent customs exemption;" On the other hand, if the import tariff on worn-out trucks is reduced to zero for a limited period of time, the government can recover several times the revenue reduced by the customs tariff from the fuel economy.