Weighing Law for Cargo Generators Gains Support from Chilean Truckers

The new Law requiring cargo-generating companies to install weighing systems, approved by the Chamber of Deputies in July 2025 and now in its second constitutional process in the Senate, has received the backing of the National Confederation of Truck Owners of Chile (CNDC).

The provision seeks for companies to have on-site weighing systems, particularly those that carry out activities involving the terrestrial transport of 60,000 tons or more annually at each loading or reception point, such as maritime, lake, and land ports, airports, warehousing, road and rail terminals, and any other type of transfer center.

In this context, the CNDC stated that "our guild expresses its broadest support for the Bill currently in Congress. We hope that the Senate will approve it in the same way the Chamber did. To clarify and emphasize that the Weighing Law aims to rectify a historical injustice, which is that transport companies and drivers stop bearing the payment of high fines when inspected on the road, for carrying loads whose tonnages they do not intervene in any way, as they are sealed containers."

"Transporters cannot be held responsible for cargo management problems at ports and transfer stations, as these do not belong to them, but to their clients. In other words, if vehicles with tonnage exceeding what is permitted are sent out on the road, it is not their responsibility, as they do not generate or transfer, they only carry," the organization emphasized.

The Confederation added that "today the Law makes a distinction, due to an omission that was denounced in the first government of then President Sebastián Piñera, between 'cargo generators', who effectively produce what they are going to transport, and 'transfer stations' which, although they do not generate, dispatch the containers that drivers transport. The government understood the sense of urgency to correct this situation and sent the project to Congress more than a decade ago."

"Until the Law corrects this state of affairs, what is inappropriate continues to be perpetuated, making drivers and transport companies pay for loads that, as stated, they cannot intervene. However, the owners and those who transfer the loads remain free of responsibility. The purpose of the current project is precisely that those who have such responsibility fulfill it," they maintained.

"We call on senators to approve the current project and rectify an injustice that currently affects a universe of 40,000 cargo transport companies, of all sizes, which are ultimately those that make possible the transfer of 95% of the goods circulating in the country," the CNDC remarked.