Ch. 11 · Owner & Manager

Businesses required to designate a safe-driving manager are limited, in all cases, to those using five or more vehicles.

[True / False · Medium]

Hikari

So you need a manager once you hit five vehicles, right?

Yui

Not always — that's false! If even one vehicle seats eleven or more passengers, like a bus, you need a manager right away.

Hikari

Wait, so one big bus triggers it, but four sedans don't?

Yui

You got it! Capacity matters more than count for larger vehicles.

Source: Ch. 11 Owner & Manager · Section (第2節 使用者) · Rules of the Road, Ch.11 §2 (Operators, safe-driving managers, substitute-driving providers) / 2(1) — To have the work needed for the safe driving of motor vehicles carried out, a vehicle user must appoint a safe-driving manager at each place of business that uses at least one vehicle with a seating capacity of 11 or more, or at least five other vehicles (large motorcycles and ordinary motorcycles each count as 0.5).

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