On the oversight activity with regards to carpooling and exercising federal state supervision in the area of road safety to its participants
The subject of this research is the normative legal acts that regulate responsibility for nonobservance of mandatory requirements on ensuring road safety in the context of using online services for joint trips (carpooling), law enforcement practice, and consideration of the author’s perspective on the improvement of carpooling. The object of this research is the public relations that emerge while using online services for joint trips that involve personal vehicles with partial compensation for driver’s expenses (carpooling). The goal of this article is to improve legislation in the area of state oversight over the activity of individuals operating vehicle for the purpose of obtaining commercial profit and organizers of the operation of vehicles without concluding transport agreement or a charter contract. The scientific novelty lies in proposing amendments to the current legislation in the sphere of exercising state supervision of ensuring road safety and interpretation of the Article 20 of the Federal Law No.196-FZ “On The Road Safety” in a new revision. The introduced changes would allow state supervision of the individuals operating vehicles for the purpose of obtaining commercial profit and organizers of the operation of vehicles without concluding transport agreement or charter contract. The adopted measures may contribute to elimination of factors that lead to commission of administrative offenses.