JPJ has launched Ops Tunggak at Malaysia-Thailand border areas to detain foreign registered cars. The special operation will focus on border areas in Perlis, Kedah, Perak and Kelantan, and targets foreign drivers that break the rules, including those with outstanding saman.
“JPJ will take action against foreign vehicles especially those from Thailand. We will stop foreign vehicles for inspection, and if found to have outstanding saman, the driver will be asked to pay up immediately before he can continue the journey,” JPJ’s senior director of enforcement Muhammad Kifli Ma Hassan said yesterday in Kota Bharu.
“JPJ wants to ensure that not only our citizens have to obey the rules, but foreigners also have to follow and pay summonses that are already issued,” he said, adding that Thai vehicles in particular are repeat offenders.
A vehicle entry permit (VEP) system, just like the one in place for Singapore-registered vehicles, would take care of this problem, but it’s not yet applicable to foreign vehicles coming from the north.
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