The year 2024 has brought many changes, rules and procedures have changed in various areas. The Road Traffic Act and specifically the section on everyone’s favorite electric scooters is no exception. Starting from January 1 of this year, they must be registered. The Road Traffic Law stipulates that from January 1, 2024, anyone who buys an electric scooter or a bicycle rickshaw must register it. Also, a state registration sticker must be affixed to its structure.
The law also provides that the above-mentioned vehicles already in the possession must be registered by March 31. After this date, unregistered vehicles will not be allowed to participate in road traffic, otherwise the owner of the vehicle must expect a fine. At the same time, it is indicated that bicycle registration is still voluntary.
We have dealt with the theoretical basis, now it’s time for my experience with this small maneuver, so that at least on paper would introduce some order in the streets. It probably doesn’t make sense here to discuss whether a small combination of letters and numbers stuck on an electric speedometer will do anything to sort out the heads of individual individuals. Image: pixabay.com
Let’s start with the fact that CSDD did not offer registration of an electric parking garage in the app at all since the beginning of January. Offered a section, it was created, but nothing could be done in it. There appeared a request to register the electric parking garage in person at the CSDD departments. But, together with the spring’s warm winds and migratory birds in the western regions of the country, the CSDD also got together and now you have the opportunity to fight with knives and elbows to get your electric parking garage accepted in the group of official vehicles.
The easiest part of this whole process is to pay for the service and to send the sticker. This pleasure will cost 7 euros and 49 cents, which, in my opinion, is absurdly expensive for such a service. We are already accustomed to other CSDD taxes, when we allow the car to swing 2 meters above the ground every year. Even then, CSDD will gladly take a couple of euros for printing a glossy sticker and the sticker itself. This small concern will end soon for the aforementioned cantor, so he probably has to look for other ways of easy profit.
Before paying, however, you will have to perform a couple of seemingly simple steps to register the electric parking garage. It is necessary to take a photo session of the electric parking garage, as well as to enter information about its model and power in a couple of data fields. As if nothing supernatural, but you have to carefully read what exactly is expected of me.
I can deal with the manufacturer and model relatively easily, because it is known to the CSDD app, then you have to enter the manufacturer’s number and try to guess the engine power. CSDD could have already taken the motor power from the manufacturer’s data, but let’s not be detailed.
At least for me, the section that asked for photos of power, speed and manufacturer number turned out to be a little confusing. There was only a sticker with the manufacturer’s number on the scooter itself, I also took a photo of it, added an overview and sent it for registration. The hope was that the power data, which I had already entered in the relevant field, would be enough.
But no! After about four hours, I received an email prompting me to go to the CSDD app to update the information. Needless to say, the CSDD app does not allow you to correct or add additional information, so I continued to correspond with CSDD in email format.
OK, well, I have cut out the manufacturer’s sticker that was on the package of the electric parking brake, it has both the serial (manufacturer) number and the maximum speed. Yes, the power is not there, but as it turns out a couple of minutes later, it is no longer important.
Mee and gee, that sticker wasn’t good enough either. But here, from CSDD’s side, it is no longer about capacities, but about the serial (manufacturer) number. Needless to say, I have already entered this serial (manufacturer) number in the relevant registration column and I also attached a photo with the serial (manufacturer) number in the CSDD app at the very first step.
As a law-abiding citizen, I set out to do what I was strongly advised to do. So that there are no misunderstandings for readers, the standing cock is tied to the lady’s smartphone, so smart ecosystems are changing here, but that is probably not very important in this song. The important thing is that I have managed to send information with the parking brake serial number to CSDD for at least the fourth time.
Around this time, the work of Kurt Vonnegut begins to come to mind, where a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization, who had come to Earth to teach how to deal with wars and cancer, reported to a family head that his house was on fire. Unfortunately, the language barrier (the Martian language was dancing and bathing) caused this gentleman to be negated and he hit a representative of an extraterrestrial civilization with a golf club while the house with all his relatives burned to the ground.
I hope that I managed to remember the fragment of the book quite accurately, because I was a little worried about whether I would have to do something similar at Jelgava CSDD, in order to finally get to that patched sticker on the parking lot. Image: pixabay.com
It must be admitted that this was also the end of the correspondence with CSDD. And it looks like it ended happily. I haven’t received my sticker yet, but at least now I can see in the CSDD app that the registration is successful and the sticker is being prepared for sending. Perhaps this kind of care and diligent e-mail correspondence with every hard-headed person like me imposes a certain administrative burden on CSDD, which is also at least partially reflected in the perceived cost of the service.
I will admit that I was not a gold nugget in the early part of this process, but to the best of my knowledge and understanding, I added all the information that was requested and available to me. It is possible that this time CSDD themselves are hostage to the letter of the law, because they want (at least in the initial correspondence) to look for affixed data on the stand itself, which most likely will not be there neither for my model nor for other scooters. Hardly any manufacturer will have taken into account the requirement of our law, indicating both serial number, speed and power in one place. Image: pixabay.com
CSDD will either have to turn a blind eye to something or improve their systems. At the beginning, I pointed out that my parking gear model is known to CSDD, so I could not be lazy and copy the power and speed of the specific vehicle into my Excel drop-down tables, so that I don’t have to chase after all kinds of high school physics majors who don’t distinguish between power and voltage.
In the end, within about a business day and a half, I was assigned a registration number for the scooter. Everything else depends, most likely, on the services of our reproachful Post Office. I have the feeling that I submitted all the necessary information from the beginning, the stormy e-mail correspondence was unnecessary for both parties involved.
So what is this event all about? Complicated? I guess a little. Disturbing? Probably yes. Expensive and rather useless? Let everyone answer for himself.
2024-03-01 10:30:00
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