Shenzhen traffic authorities to set rules for delivery bikes and trikes
Traffic authorities in Shenzen will be setting out new rules and regulations for electric bicycles and tricycles that are used for express deliveries, according to local sources. According to a reported posted by China Daily, the State Post Bureau posted draft national specifications for electric tricycles on Monday (11 April) – and these will form the basis of the Shenzen rules on delivery e-trikes.
The SPB draft specifies that delivery tricycles can be no more than one metre wide, three metres long and 1.4 metres high, with a maximum payload of 180kg, excluding the driver – according to China Daily.
Traffic authorities in Shenzhen recently launched a campaign to crack down on illegal electric bicycles and tricycles – and confiscated some 18,000 electric bikes and freight trikes as a results. Only a few of these confiscated vehicles were being used for deliveries, China Daily added.
“The action mainly targeted illegal electric bikes that ferried passengers, rather than the express delivery industry,” Xu Wei, head of the Shenzhen traffic police, was quoted as saying.
