I was traveling by car to Ergun, Inner Mongolia, and was suddenly stopped by the traffic police. I "violated the rules"

My self-driving route around China this time is relatively casual. I don’t have a very specific plan. The most important thing is to complete half of the journey and go see the better places when I encounter them. If not, just go straight there. Gone to the next place. After yesterday's experience of a drone hanging in a tree and a car tire bulging, I was not in the mood to check detailed maps anymore. After contacting the car repairman, I headed directly to Hailar.

Referring to the map, let’s briefly talk about a few places worth visiting in Ergun that I missed~~:

1. Ergun Wetland Park is the most intact and largest wetland in China. It is also known as "Asia's No. 1 Wetland".

2. Heishantou ruins, an ancient city of the Yuan Dynasty, located in the Ergun Banner on the east bank of the Ergun River in Hulunbuir League, is the birthplace of the Mongolian people.

3. Genhe Wetland, which covers almost all types of natural ecosystems in Ergun except virgin forests.

There are also many other good places, such as "Birch Forest, Enhe Russian Nationality Township, Ergun River", etc. You can also visit them if you have the opportunity.

After passing Jinhe Town, the road gradually got better. After passing Genhe City, we went directly to the G332 National Highway. For me, who had traveled hundreds of kilometers on a bad road, it was a great pleasure to drive on this road. Gradually, there are no longer tall forests on both sides of the road, replaced by endless flat grassland. Although it is not a real grassland now, the view is very broad.

 

After hundreds of kilometers of "mental oppression" and butt torture, I felt refreshed when I got on the G332. Not only was my butt relaxed, but the accelerator under my feet also seemed to be lighter. I stepped down lightly and stayed with me for a long time. My mount "Subai" ran forward like a wild horse (pay attention to the speed limit). I believe that in this state, I will be able to reach Ergun before the sun sets.

However, just as I was happily racing on the G332 listening to my favorite Qin opera, a checkpoint suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of me. I was so scared that I braked and quickly followed the other cars.

Watching the cars in front of me being inspected one by one, I was still wondering what was being inspected? After seeing that the traffic police left several trucks pulling sheep and goods, I was relieved. It turned out that they were inspecting trucks, not cars.

However, when it was my turn to check, the traffic policeman took a look directly in front of the car, then trotted over to the side window of my car and took a look. After a moment of confusion, he directed me to drive the car forward and pull over.

"Hello, please show me your driver's license, driving license," the traffic policeman looked at me and said.

I handed the documents to the serious traffic policeman one by one. I didn't know what happened.

The traffic policeman turned around and looked at the car again. He even went to the front of the car to look at the license plate, and then said to me: "Turn off the engine, pull the handbrake, and get out of the car."

At this time I felt something was wrong and started to get a little nervous. Could it be that I had too many things in the car and it was the same as last time?

I saw him holding the wristband on his chest and calling another colleague: "XX, come here." Another colleague not far away ran over. Then the traffic police comrade who came over turned on the camera in his hand and recorded I took pictures from front to back and left and right in the car.

I thought to myself: "This is bad!"

The traffic policeman at the beginning started interrogating me, asking me where I came from, why I came here, when I bought the car, how much it cost, whether there was anyone else with me, etc. I answered truthfully.

Finally, he paused and asked, "Do you know why I stopped you?"

"Ah?" I looked at him nervously. The beads of sweat hidden in my pores kept pouring out of my skin, flowing over my extremely nervous face, forming bright marks.

Do traffic policemen like to ask drivers questions like this? Still want to know if you are breaking the law?

He probably saw how nervous I was, so he glanced at the colleague next to me and said loudly to me: "You can't mix passengers and cargo in this car, do you know?"

The sound was so loud that people within a 3-kilometer radius could hear it. I glanced sideways, and saw several other drivers who were stopped nearby tilting their heads and looking in my direction. I was startled, "Are you going to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys?"

So I quickly folded my hands in front of my chest and quickly admitted my mistake: "I know, I know...", and sure enough, it was still the same thing.

"I know I still haul so many (things), let's go in and fill out a fine with us." After that, he walked towards the duty room on the roadside.

"I really didn't mean to pull so much, the trunk is also full..."

"Huh??" He turned around and asked in surprise, "Is your trunk full too?" As he said that, he turned around and walked towards the back of the car.

"Open the trunk!" As if I heard the order, I opened the car door and shakily pressed the trunk open button. The camera police who had been silent just now came over and videotaped the entire process. I thought this was very professional.

The moment he opened the trunk, the traffic policeman stayed for three seconds, then looked at the sky, looked at me again, sighed, and said, "You do it!"

As I said that, I walked towards the duty room next to the checkpoint. I thought to myself that this was really bad. The traffic policeman seemed to be acting vigorously and resolutely, so I was sure to "take care of him". I trotted to follow him, trying my best to admit my mistake and explain the whole story.

"You said you were traveling, bringing some food, drink, and even cooking. I have seen it before, and I can understand it, but you are really going too far!"

There was no hint in his words that he wanted to criticize or educate me or anything like that. He probably wanted to fine me.

While he was talking, he asked another colleague to fill out the fine form according to my driver's license. When I saw the fine form, I started to write it. It clearly said "a fine of 200 yuan."

,200 yuan? This is the price of more than half a tank of gas. For me to travel around China, I can save a tank of gas. I can't just pay the fine "in a daze", so I started the "admit fault mode with a good attitude" .

After some "intense" negotiations, the colleague in charge of me gave me an ultimatum: I don't have to pay the fine, but the car must be restored to its original condition.

How can this be restored to its original state? Lost everything? It's definitely not realistic. I had no choice but to dismantle the bed board before looking at it.

Under his "supervision" without even a glance, I packed up all the things in the car, removed all the nailed bed boards, and stuck them behind the passenger seat. In fact, the main problem is that I have been too lazy to pack up the bed boards. This has been the case since I left Beijing. The passenger seat is folded down, and the bed board is placed on it. This bed board was also written at the beginning of the travelogue. It can be flipped forward and down, which is indeed unsafe.

After being checked by the traffic police for the first time, I moved the things on the bed under the seat and pushed them all together, temporarily freeing up the space in the upper half of the window. However, the traffic police here felt that this was not acceptable and the passenger seat must be To be fair, the space inside the car cannot be less than that. This may be their understanding of "mixed loading of passengers and cargo".

"Mixed loading of passengers and cargo" is really not easy to define, and the law enforcement situation is different in different places. It mainly depends on whether there are some local regulations. This has been explained in the previous chapter, so I won't go into more details.

Later, I looked up the issue of "mixed loading of passengers and cargo". Article 49 of the Traffic Law stipulates that "passenger motor vehicles shall not carry cargo in violation of regulations." This "goods" depends on how you define it. There is no unified "technical standard" for family cars, and the implementation varies from place to place. As a netizen said, you can't just put a watermelon in the back seat and just say that passengers and goods are mixed. Decoration, this is not realistic. After all, if you buy a car, you can decorate it with daily necessities.

 

But if you pretend too much, it becomes difficult to judge. Strictly speaking, it is a mix of passengers and cargo, but it is not a commonly understood concept of using a passenger car as a truck. It is not as easy to judge as a van, which can be directly dismantled to transport cargo.

Later I also encountered the attitude of the traffic police on this issue several times. My way to deal with it is to have a good attitude, admit my mistakes, and then state my reasons. I am traveling by car, and the distance is quite long, so I will take it with me on the way. The belongings used for eating and sleeping only take up space and are not too heavy. Most traffic police are quite reasonable and will also advise you not to block the rear window with items in the car.

Another very important point: the height of the items in the car should not be higher than the lower edge of the window. One is because the traffic police cannot see it from a distance, so they will not stop it. The other is for safety. Things that are higher than the height of the window must be blocked from behind. The window said that if the things in the back seat are not placed properly, it is easy to fly to the front seat in a sudden stop. The consequences, imagine the scene...

The wood of this bed board is relatively soft, and the nails provided by the boss at that time were too short, so I nailed it several times along the way. The biggest time was when I nailed the bed board in Lushun. I also wrote a travel note "". Although it often loosened, I had to nail it all. It took a while to pull out the nails, mainly because I was afraid that the nails would scratch me and the car before they were completely pulled out. Without professional pliers, after half an hour of work, I finally pulled out all the nails and put them away. After the other items were in the car, the traffic police were called to check.

"I'm convinced!" He said these two words seriously. Then he returned to the duty room and gave me his driver's license. He didn't say a word the whole time, signaling me to leave quickly so as not to delay his work.

After I said thank you, I quickly got into the driver's seat, started the ignition, shifted gears, released the handbrake, and filled the gas, all at once. I didn't dare to delay for a second, for fear that the traffic policeman would regret it again after seeing my "bear-like" behavior.

After I got back on the road, I was thinking a lot. Is this a test that I have to go through? Before I set off, I thought about various situations in which I might be investigated by the traffic police, such as having a kitchen knife in the car, a gas tank in the car, no insurance label (the electronic version provided by the insurance company in Beijing, I printed it myself and kept it in the car), etc. , I never expected that because of this, I would be stopped by the traffic police twice.

Having said that, safety is the most important thing when going out. If you make a mistake and are stopped by the traffic police, just accept the inspection and criticism obediently, and don't get into any conflicts. If you are not wrong, due to local law enforcement issues, etc., you must "stay calm in the face of danger" and argue with reason to give yourself the maximum room for explanation.

I have seen many people bring a copy of the "Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" when traveling by car, especially friends with trailers/RVs, because our regulations in this regard are not very clear and are enforced in many places. It's different. In short, you must be aware of yourself and your car, and don't deliberately "break the law" (pull gasoline privately, etc.) just because of needs. As the same saying goes: safety is the most important thing.

 

Supplement: Inner Mongolia, like Xinjiang, has large tracts of flat land with a wide field of vision. It is very easy to speed "unconsciously". Drivers are reminded to always pay attention to the vehicle speedometer.