JPJ issues 11 notices for overloading
KUCHING: The Sarawak Road Transport Department (JPJ) intensified its efforts to ensure road safety last week by launching an operation codenamed ‘Ops Lebih Muatan’ aimed at curbing goods vehicles transporting excess cargo. A total of 11 non-compliance notices were issued to drivers found committing the offence along the routes from Sibu to Kuching on Aug […]
Bidding period for ‘FF’ series number plates ends at 10 tonight
KUALA LUMPUR: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has extended the bidding period for ‘FF’ series number plates through the JPJeBid system which was scheduled to end yesterday, to 10 pm today (May 19). Transport Minister Anthony Loke said this was after taking cognisance of public complaints about the unstable JPJeBid system due to high traffic. […]
Sibu JPJ takes action against vehicles with glare-causing headlights
SIBU: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) here has cracked down on vehicles equipped with Light Emitting Diode (LED) and High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights that cause glare to other drivers. A total of 40 vehicles were found to have retrofitted headlights on Wednesday night (May 17), and Sibu JPJ chief Mohd Faizal David Jemat issued […]
JPJ issues tickets for parking on yellow lines
KUCHING: In a ‘colourful reminder’ to motorists, the Road Transport Department (JPJ) here has painted a clear picture: parking on yellow lines is a shade too bold. With the potential to transform a motorist’s day from sunny to stormy, non-compliance notices loom like dark rain clouds, ready to unleash a compound of up to RM200. […]
JPJ aims to go for full digitalisation
SEREMBAN: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) intends to go for full digitalisation in the future to ensure the quality of the agency’s delivery to the people runs smoothly and effectively. Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook said the digitalisation concept had already been initiated through the JPJ Digitalisation Strategic Plan 2021–2025 with various initiatives including information […]
Loke: Puspakom won’t be sole provider of vehicle inspection services
PUTRAJAYA: Pusat Pemeriksaan Kenderaan Berkomputer (Puspakom) will no longer be the sole provider of periodic motor vehicle inspection service beginning Sept 1, 2024, said Transport Minister Anthony Loke. He said the Cabinet at its meeting on March 17 decided that other qualified companies would also be allowed to provide the service on behalf of the […]
Rep keen to solve school area’s traffic congestion
BINTULU: Tanjong Batu assemblyman Johnny Pang Leong Ming will discuss with SMK Bandar Bintulu and the Bintulu Road Transport Department (JPJ) to find a solution to the problem of traffic congestion in the school area. Pang said, action needs to be taken to ensure that the problem of congestion in the school area involved can […]
SBTCA members call on Lee
KUCHING : Members of the Sarawak Bus Transport Companies Association (SBTCA) yesterday paid a courtesy call on Transport Minister Datuk Seri Lee Kim Shin at his office in Petra Jaya here. A press statement said during the meeting, the chairman of the association, Mohd Atan Abdullah, introduced the new members of the committee for the year […]
Sarawak Transport Ministry welcomes move to digitise JPJ services
KUCHING: The Ministry of Transport Sarawak (MoTS) welcomes the decision by the federal Ministry of Transport to digitise motor vehicle road tax and driving licence. MoTS minister Datuk Sri Lee Kim Shin believed that digitising both was in line with the current situation, in which Malaysians have adapted to a digital way of life, alongside […]
Don’t overtake on double lines: JPJ
SRI AMAN: It’s an offence to overtake on double lines and offenders will be slapped with a fine of RM300. The Road Transport Department (JPJ) says drivers or riders cannot cut in and out of traffic on double lines; they must stay on their lane because they generally cannot see vehicles from the opposing traffic […]
