No road tax, no mercy: RTD seizes lorries, strips permits
The department has begun recommending the suspension of operating licences for such companies, with offending lorries to be stripped of their permits and potentially subject to ownership forfeiture.
RTD Enforcement Division senior director Muhammad Kifli Ma Hassan said these measures were being taken under the provisions of the Land Public Transport Act 2010.
"To date, we have seized 135 vehicles under Section 80 of the Land Public Transport Act, involving cases in Selangor and Pahang. Of these, seven lorries have already been forfeited," he told reporters today at the Elmina RTD Enforcement Station.
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