The truck driver had to slit his wrists to prove his innocence (Photo source: video screenshot)
On the afternoon of April 12, truck driver Zhao Hongjun was fined for overloading at the Qingcheng District Overload Inspection Station in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. After repeatedly asking for a re-pounding without success, Zhao Hongjun got the opportunity to re-pound by self-harm and finally passed the test. This is following the death of Hebei truck driver Jin Deqiang who died after taking poison due to a fine for being impounded, another truck driver had to slit his wrists to prove his innocence, which sparked widespread concern among netizens. Most official media websites have now blocked previous reports on the sub-incident. Netizens are furious: Does every truck driver have to slash himself or drink pesticide?
According to reports that have survived online, Zhao Hongjun, a truck driver from Shandong Province, was fined for overloading when he was delivering goods past the Xinzhuang overload monitoring point in Qingcheng District, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, at 5 p.m. on April 12. Zhao Hongjun questioned this, saying that he went from Zibo, Shandong to Foshan, Guangdong via five overload stations, none of which showed overload. Compared with the previous monitoring point, Zhao Hongjun’s truck in the monitoring station out of nowhere an extra 700 kg of weight. Zhao Hongjun repeatedly asked for reweighing unsuccessful, he chose to self-harm to get the opportunity to reweigh, and finally passed the test.
Afterwards Zhao Hongjun shot a video to tell the story of the incident. The video shows that he has a ten-centimeter-long cut on his arm, with a total of 14 stitches. He said it was his own cut, more than ten minutes after the cut, the monitoring point staff is still ignored. Until another truck driver entered the monitoring point to deal with over the limit, only to help call 120.
Zhao Hongjun said he cut his wrist before being agreed to resume weighing, overweight and not overloaded. Zhao Hongjun questioned: If I don’t slit my wrist, do I have to accept the overload and be fined?
Zhao Hongjun also posted the scene when he negotiated with the staff of the inspection station: he asked to resume weighing, but was repeatedly refused. He was stranded here for an hour and a half still to no avail.
Zhao Hongjun said that it is not easy for truck drivers to make a living, and they are helpless in the face of the difficulties of some law enforcement officers. “It is clear that their own equipment problems, not to rectify, but repeatedly difficult for truck drivers. I ask, as a public official, there will be no service to the people in practice? Can we ask law enforcement officers more humane law enforcement. After all, the purpose of regulation is to solve the problem and eliminate the risk, rather than simply a fine.”
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