Puspakom will no longer be the only party providing vehicle inspection services from next year, transport minister Anthony Loke said last week, and the transport minister has revealed the latest guidelines which vehicle inspection service providers will required to adhere to, The Star has reported.
Each vehicle inspection service provider will initially be allowed to to operate in two locations, which will be one in an urban area, and one in a rural area. The service provider is then required to develop and operate both locations at the same time, with the list of locations to be provided at a stakeholder consultation session on April 23, Loke said.
“With this, the ultimate goal will be to ensure every state and possibly area has at least one VISP to serve both urban and rural communities,” the transport minister said, adding that the vehicle inspection service providers will be required to have at least RM10 million in paid-up capital and RM5 million in working capital to ensure the sustainability of the business.
Upon approval, qualified service providers will be given interim approval of up to 24 months, and in that time the companies area required to fully develop and set up the inspection centres at their allocated locations, Loke said.
“Any party found to have failed to complete all the preparation processes within this period of time will have the interim approval revoked and will not be granted a licence. Those who succeed will be granted a licence to carry out vehicle inspections… for a maximum period of up to 10 years, with the ability to continue for another period to be determined later,” he added.
However, the vehicle inspection service providers will not be allowed to offer repair or modification services, sales of spare parts or vehicles, or any transaction related to these services, Loke said.
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Another non small business friendly policy. In the UK basically any small / medium workshop can do MOT inspection.
More than 22,000 testing stations and more than 60,000 MOT testers with most of these being small businesses.
Imagine if just 1/3 that, 7,000 testing centres and 20,000 inspection persons – how many jobs and businesses will that create all over Malaysia.
Integrity, in Msia we don’t have that. A foreman in UK is proud of their work and ethic. In Msia it,s all about the money.
Integrity doesn’t come from pride of work and ethics. This comes from certification and in this case ISO 9001. A modified form of this standard already governs the service and supply chain for medical devices in malaysia for the past 15 years. The same can be done for vehicle inspections and also vehicles distribution and servicing.
It’s so difficult to do anything clean at Puspakom, how is this helping to solve the root issue? The problem is our people also, they’ll happily pay to get it done. I bought a used car recently and forced to pay for fast “runner” fees to expedite jpj and puspakom. If i make a report, the dealership will face problems and they are not the problem. The root cause is the C word when will this religious country ever get clean???
If u are forced to pay for that fast ‘runner’ then u are conned by the used car dealer. I got mine the next day after signing my hire purchase agreement without having to pay anything.Total process from viewing the car, submitting document, and getting the car took 3 days. Could have been 2 days if i dont delay making my final decission….and no, the car price is not jacked up.
If one really understand the process, C will dropped significantly. Some party are taking advantage on lazy group of people whom assumed everything are difficult and must pay to make it easier.
Still, u could be living in a densed area and the inspection center is too busy nearing festive season thus the dealer charged u to speed up the process.
The problem with Malaysians is they think something like a Puspakom inspection is complicated. I have done a Puspakom inspection for two things before: name change when I sold my car, and transferred my number to a new car I bought.
It is so simple to do that paying ANY AMOUNT to use a runner (even a legit, clean one) seems really a waste of funds.
The booking was on the myPuspakom app. Admittedly the app could benefit from a better interface but as is, it works fine. I paid online, and went to the centre in Padang Jawa. It was crowded, yes, but there is a waiting room.
The inspection itself was about 30 minutes. I noticed that the people I spoke to all came much earlier than their appointment slot, which I suspect is why the place was full of cars. One runner I spoke to (who was trying to sell me his service LOL) said he was handling 6 cars at different time slots, but he asked all the owners to come at the time slot of the first car he was handling. So that eases his work, but creates a long line at the centre.
Really. If you do it yourself, you’ll get to save hundreds. And with some of them now open on selected weekends, you don’t even need to take time off.
Is the mandatory periodical inspection volume that are predominantly commercial vehicles business-viable before one can consider to open up new centres. One of the Government’s requirements outlines that VISP to serve both urban and rural areas, I believe centre in the urban areas would need to cross-subsidise loss making centre in the rural area. If this the case what is the ceiling inspection fees chargeable to customers? What’s the gestation period and for investor to recoup investment made and ROI margins? 10+5 years of contract licence sufficient? Bare in mind the compliance cost (skilled manpower, equipment, calibration, certification etc.) needed for a centre to be up and running. So customers won’t mind paying more for an inspection? Mandatory vehicle inspection volume growth is stagnant, this concept is logical if it is intended for mandatory periodical inspection for private vehicle (which is not yet made mandatory, lower set up cost due to smaller space, higher volume prospect 30++ mil. of passenger vehicles as opposed to only 1++ mil. of commercial vehicles)
This photo shown is highly questionable since heavy vehicles have to constantly get checked at Puspacom and by the looks of its black diesel emission there is no way those vehicle can pass on the roads.