Recently, two gas stations in Yongcheng City and Yucheng County, Shangqiu, Henan Province used software to cheat, resulting in serious errors in tanker metering, which was caused after exposure.abugarciablackmax3lowprofilebaitcastreelThis has attracted widespread attention from society. The measurement error at the gas station involved was as high as 1abugarciablackmax3lowprofilebaitcastreel.02%, which is three times the allowable error range stipulated by the state. At present, the relevant cheating tools have completed judicial appraisal and confirmed the existence of cheating procedures.
According to national regulations, fuel dispensers are key national management and strong inspection measuring instruments, and their maximum allowable error is ±0.3%. However, with the strengthening of supervision, the means of cheating by tanker trucks have become more and more concealed, posing challenges to effectively crack down on related illegal and criminal activities.
The incident originated from comments received by superBTai, a blogger for "counterfeiting", reflecting that some small and medium-sized gas stations in Shangqiu, Henan Province were "short of weight". superB cooperated with professional testing agencies to expose abnormal conditions at two gas stations in Yongcheng City and Yucheng County. After reporting it to the local market supervision department, law enforcement officers found a computer controlling cheating software at the gas station involved, and superB demonstrated its cheating function on the spot.
After the market supervision department seized the gas station involved, it entrusted a professional judicial appraisal agency in Beijing to conduct an appraisal of the tanker, the tanker motherboard and cheating procedures. The identification results show that the cheating program can achieve the function of actually producing less oil but displaying normal values on the tanker.
Experts and industry insiders pointed out that there are many methods of cheating by fuel dispensers and it is difficult to investigate and deal with it. The Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Zhejiang Province launched a special control action on the metering accuracy of fuel tankers across the province, proactively inspecting and handling 948 problems of various types. Liu Yunan, deputy director of the metrology department of the bureau, believes that attaching importance to consumer complaints, systematic governance, and precise governance are important experiences gained from special actions.
Liu Yunan said that in the long run, it is necessary to further improve the technical standards of tankers and raise the penalty threshold in order to more effectively control the phenomenon of cheating in tankers. In addition, it is necessary to promote product updates and product technological innovation to make it difficult for products to cheat and increase the cost of cheating. At the same time, relevant laws are used to increase the illegal costs of businesses using cheating measuring equipment to achieve an effective deterrent effect.
This incident highlights the important role of strengthening supervision and improving technical standards in combating tanker cheating. It also reminds the public and regulatory authorities to be vigilant against such illegal activities and jointly safeguard market order and consumer rights.