Previously, we shared how vehicle entry permit (VEP) RFID tags can now track and display unpaid summonses of Singapore vehicles at Malaysia-Singapore checkpoints, with Singapore-registered vehicles making up the largest group of foreign drivers with outstanding traffic summonses in Malaysia at an estimated RM3.5 million.
Well, there’s an outstanding traffic summonses problem with vehicles north of the Peninsular Malaysia border, too, as revealed by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) Perlis.
JPJ Perlis collected RM31,600 in unpaid traffic compounds from just 16 Thai vehicles
Utusan Malaysia quoted JPJ Perlis director Fatimah Mohamed Ali Piah as saying that during a 4-day special operation called Ops Pemandu Warga Asing (PeWA), the department had successfully collected RM31,600 in unpaid compounds from Thai vehicles.
The report added that the operation took place on 11, 16, 21 and 28 October, involving just 16 Thai vehicles.
JPJ Perlis asserted that there are still many vehicles from Thailand that have failed to settle their outstanding summonses for various traffic offences. Some of these summonses date back several years.
Meanwhile, NST reported that the offences committed include failure to obtain the International Circulation Permit (ICP) for Thai-registered tourist vans and various technical violations such as the use of tinted windows.
Thai vehicles must pay any outstanding traffic summonses before they’re allowed to cross the border back
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Fatimah stressed that in Perlis, her department will ask these foreign traffic offenders to pay their outstanding summonses first before they are allowed to cross the border to Thailand.
So, what do you guys think of these Thai-registered vehicles whose owners failed to pay their summonses in Malaysia for years? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
