On the evening of October 10, a program titled "One Paper 'Clearance' All the Way at Risk" was broadcast, involving the long-term overloaded transportation of crude oil by Jingbian County Xingda Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd. in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. According to CCTV News on October 11, 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 conduct special investigations and handle the matter. The task force will strictly investigate and punish illegal and non-compliant activities in accordance with laws and regulations, and seriously hold those responsible accountable.
At the same time, a city-wide effort is being carried out to draw inferences from this case and conduct thorough inspections and rectification across the entire chain of the hazardous materials transportation industry, effectively maintaining order in the hazardous chemicals transport sector and safeguarding the lives and property of the public.
According to earlier reports, Jingbian County Xingda Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd., located in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, is a company primarily engaged in crude oil transportation, with more than 60 tanker trucks. In mid-June, when reporters accompanied a central work safety assessment and inspection team to the site, no issues were initially found. However, after logging into the backend electronic waybill system, they discovered that the tanker trucks' records were quite unusual: 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 trucks only carried about two-thirds of the crude oil their tanks could hold. While loading less to avoid overloading is understandable, wasting a large amount of transport capacity over a long period does not align with commercial logic. At the inspection team's request, the company's responsible person produced several actual delivery notes. Upon comparison, problems were indeed found. Taking a tanker truck with the license plate ending in 3943 as an example, its factory report stated a rated load of 14 tons, but 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, and 7684, and found that all were overloaded, with overload rates ranging from 42% to 58%. How could a tank with a rated load of 14 tons carry 22 tons of crude oil? After extensive efforts, reporters found a surveillance video accidentally captured on the day of the inspection, June 18, which revealed that two tanker trucks had the same license plate number, both 3943—one was 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 labels were all different. Clearly, these were not the same tank.
Whether this constitutes illegal tank swapping remains to be further investigated by relevant authorities. Experts say that hazardous materials vehicles are not ordinary trucks, and the consequences of overloading are far more serious, making them highly prone to causing major or especially severe safety accidents.