# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4)（過積載車両に係る指示） — address `art-58-4` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十八条の四（過積載車両に係る指示） — (Instructions for Overloaded Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第二項の規定による命令がされた場合において、当該命令に係る車両の使用者（当該車両の運転者であるものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）が当該車両に係る過積載を防止するため必要な運行の管理を行つていると認められないときは、当該車両の使用の本拠の位置を管轄する公安委員会は、当該車両の使用者に対し、車両を運転者に運転させる場合にあらかじめ車両の積載物の重量を確認することを運転者に指導し又は助言することその他車両に係る過積載を防止するため必要な措置をとることを指示することができる。 art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4/par-1 When an order under paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article is issued, if the user of the vehicle subject to the order (other than the selfsame driver of the vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is found not to be undertaking the necessary operational management to prevent drivers from carrying excessive loads in that vehicle, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the vehicle's base of operations may instruct the user to direct or advise drivers to check the weight of the load before allowing them to drive its vehicles, and may instruct the user to take other necessary measures to prevent its vehicles from carrying excessive loads. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-58-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第一項 (Article 58-3, paragraph (1)), art-58-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-1 - art-58-4/par-1: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第二項 (Article 58-3, paragraph (2)), art-58-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-2 - art-58-4/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4), art-58-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項（乗車又は積載の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十八条の四第一項（過積載車両に係る指示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-58-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13