The popularity of cars has brought great convenience to people's daily lives and made our travel more convenient, so more and more people have joined the car family. On the other hand, the explosive increase in the number of cars has also brought great challenges to the traffic of many cities, and the congestion on the road is becoming more and more serious. However, compared with the urban area, the highway is obviously better due to the small traffic flow, and the driving experience will obviously be better.
Car owners who often run high speeds will definitely have a feeling that running high speed is too hard. After all, the highway is not like the city can stop at any time on the side of the road, but must go to the fixed service area to take a short rest, which also leads to the owner of the highway fatigue driving situation occurs from time to time. Curiously, every owner knows that fatigue driving is a very dangerous behavior, but why are owners reluctant to sleep in the service area?
Mr. Liu, a car owner in Shandong, was extremely tired because he had not slept well on the way back from a business trip, and when he drove to the vicinity of the service area, he only felt that he was really unable to stand up, so he slept in the service area in the dark. However, to his surprise, when he continued to return refreshed the next day, the staff of the high-speed toll booth actually asked him to pay a fine of nearly 1,000 yuan, which made Mr. Liu feel very puzzled.
In fact, according to the regulations of the traffic control department, if a car stays in the highway network for more than 24 hours, or stays in the same highway section for more than 12 hours, it will start to pay a certain amount of "overtime fee". The main purpose of setting this fee is to strike a certain degree at drivers who are prepared to evade the fee by chance. In addition, it is also to avoid congestion caused by some vehicles staying on the highway for too long. The specific charging standard is calculated by the mileage between the entrance and exit of the vehicle with a minimum speed limit of 60km/h, and as long as the time is exceeded, it will be fined at a price of 40 yuan per hour.
It is precisely for this reason that the vast majority of car owners will refuse to sleep in the service area, not because they do not want to, but because sleeping in the development zone is much more expensive than staying in a hotel. Therefore, car owners will rest before they need to drive at high speed for a long time, so as to avoid fatigue driving on high speed roads, or because they are asleep in the service area, they need to pay overtime fees.
How to avoid being charged overtime fees
Seeing that some car owners here may have problems again, if they really can't stay up and need to rest, or the car breaks down and causes it to be unable to leave the highway in time, can you only obediently pay money? In fact, as long as the owner of the car has more thoughts, buys something casually when entering the service area and leaving the service area, and keeps the small ticket as evidence of his rest in the service area, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation of being charged overtime fees. In addition, you can also submit the maintenance record of your vehicle or the certificate issued by the person in charge of the service area to avoid the overtime fee.
summary:
Although sleeping in the service area is likely to face the embarrassing situation of fines when getting off the highway, fatigue driving is still a very undesirable way of driving, after all, life safety is the first priority for every car owner.