And in the southern regions of Russia, according to Chernikov, control over winter tires is not necessary at all in winter, where it is warm and there is virtually no snow and ice on the roadway. From the point of view of common sense and the actual situation on the roads, it is not that it is impossible to argue with the general, but on the contrary, I would like to support with both hands his approach to the issue of winter tires in winter !
But as always with almost all law enforcement practices of a punitive nature, all kinds of ‘buts’ will inevitably crop up at the level of a regular rubber artist. The big boss with his common sense is far away – in Moscow. Thousands of kilometers and dozens of steps higher on the career ladder than an ordinary traffic police inspector, frozen on a snow-covered highway. Who doesn’t watch the television addresses of their big boss in the capital?
The employee is guided by legislation and official departmental circulars. Therefore, he will be happy and pleased to find among the cars that pass him, shod in the “summer”: you can draw up a report about the driver, or “cheat” him with bribes, intimidate him with the prospect of sending him the perpetrator’s car to the seized lot.
Such “tricks” can be nipped in the bud in only one way: when a video message from the head of the State Traffic Inspectorate to car owners is supported by the distribution of the corresponding departmental order to all regional departments of the traffic police. Otherwise the system usually does not work.