JPJ Ops Tunggak to stop foreign cars at Thai border

JPJ has launched Ops Tunggak astatine Malaysia-Thailand borderline areas to detain overseas registered cars. The peculiar cognition volition absorption connected borderline areas successful Perlis, Kedah, Perak and Kelantan, and targets overseas drivers that interruption the rules, including those with outstanding saman.

“JPJ volition instrumentality enactment against overseas vehicles particularly those from Thailand. We volition halt overseas vehicles for inspection, and if recovered to person outstanding saman, the operator volition beryllium asked to wage up instantly earlier helium tin proceed the journey,” JPJ’s elder manager of enforcement Muhammad Kifli Ma Hassan said yesterday successful Kota Bharu.

“JPJ wants to guarantee that not lone our citizens person to obey the rules, but foreigners besides person to travel and wage summonses that are already issued,” helium said, adding that Thai vehicles successful peculiar are repetition offenders.

A conveyance introduction licence (VEP) system, conscionable similar the 1 successful spot for Singapore-registered vehicles, would instrumentality attraction of this problem, but it’s not yet applicable to overseas vehicles coming from the north.

The station JPJ Ops Tunggak to halt overseas cars astatine Thai border appeared archetypal connected Paul Tan's Automotive News.