# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七十五条の十 (Article 75-10) - 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: 第七十五条の十 (Article 75-10)（自動車の運転者の遵守事項） — address `art-75-10` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-10 - 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. --- ### 第七十五条の十（自動車の運転者の遵守事項） — (Rules to Be Observed by Drivers of Motor Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-75-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-10 **第一項** 自動車の運転者は、高速自動車国道等において自動車を運転しようとするときは、あらかじめ、燃料、冷却水若しくは原動機のオイルの量又は貨物の積載の状態を点検し、必要がある場合においては、高速自動車国道等において燃料、冷却水若しくは原動機のオイルの量の不足のため当該自動車を運転することができなくなること又は積載している物を転落させ、若しくは飛散させることを防止するための措置を講じなければならない。 art-75-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-10/par-1 Before driving a motor vehicle on a national expressway or limited highway, the driver must inspect the motor vehicle's amount of fuel, coolant, and motor oil and the condition of loaded cargo and, if necessary, take measures to prevent the motor vehicle from becoming undriveable due to a shortage of fuel, coolant, or motor oil, and to prevent loaded cargo from falling or scattering from the motor vehicle on the national expressway or limited highway Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十九条第一項第十九号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-1/item-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-1/item-19 --- ## 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