According to a report aired on the evening of October 10 by the "Focus Interview" program titled "One Paper 'Customs Clearance,' Risks All Along the Way," the issue involved Jingbian County Xingda Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd. in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, which has long been engaged in overloaded crude oil transportation.
According to CCTV News on the 11th, after the program aired, the Yulin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government immediately established a joint task force overnight, composed of departments including transportation, market regulation, emergency management, and public security, and dispatched it to the scene to carry out special investigation and handling of the problems, strictly investigate and punish illegal and non-compliant acts in accordance with the law and regulations, and seriously hold those responsible accountable.
At the same time, the whole city has been instructed to draw inferences from this case, conduct in-depth full-chain screening and rectification across the hazardous materials transport industry, effectively maintain order in the hazardous chemicals transportation sector, and safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
According to earlier reports, Jingbian County Xingda Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd. is located in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. It is a company mainly engaged in crude oil transportation and has more than 60 tanker trucks.
In mid-June, when reporters accompanied a central work safety assessment and inspection team to the site, they initially found no problems. However, after logging into the back-end electronic waybill system, they discovered that the tanker truck records were not entirely reasonable: from January 1, 2024, to June 18, 2026, the tonnage utilization rate was uniformly 68.3%.
A tonnage utilization rate of 68.3% means the tanker truck was loaded with only about two-thirds of the crude oil its tank could hold. It is understandable to load less in order to avoid overloading, but wasting a large amount of transport capacity over a long period does not conform to commercial logic.
At the request of the inspection team, the person in charge of the company produced several real cargo waybills. Upon comparison, problems were indeed found. Taking a tanker truck whose license plate ends in 3943 as an example, its factory report listed an approved load of 14 tons, while the receipt showed it had carried 22.14 tons, an overload of 58%.
Subsequently, the assessment and inspection team also checked tanker trucks with license plates ending in 6163, 6782, 7684, and others, and found that all were overloaded, with overload rates ranging from 42% to 58%.
How could a tank with an approved load of 14 tons carry 22 tons of crude oil? After many efforts, reporters found a piece of surveillance video that happened to be captured on June 18, the day of the inspection. It turned out that the license plates of these two tanker trucks were the same, both 3943: one was running on the road, and the other was undergoing inspection. However, the shapes of the two tanks, the lengths of the reflective strips, and the positions of the flammable material markings were all different.
Obviously, these were not the same tank at all. Whether this is suspected of illegally swapping tanks remains subject to further investigation by the relevant authorities. Experts said that hazardous materials vehicles are not comparable to ordinary trucks. Once overloaded, the consequences are far more serious and can very easily lead to major or especially serious safety accidents.
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