Transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has instructed the Road Transport Department (JPJ) to synchronise its list of blacklisted drivers with those of the police and the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) in order to stop errant motorists from renewing their driving licences, according to The Star.
The Bentong MP said that he was aware JPJ was unable to suspend the licences of those present on the police’s blacklist because of a lack of synchronisation between the software used by the two agencies, as well as SPAD. “I have directed the JPJ director-general to come up with a programme to synchronise the list, so that the JPJ will be informed of the police list and we can take action to blacklist the drivers,” he said.
Liow remarks were in response to a report which stated that thousands of motorists and commercial vehicle drivers were still able to renew their licences, as JPJ could not immediately access the police’s blacklist of errant motorists.
This comes after an express bus collided into 10 vehicles along the North-South Expressway on Sunday, allegedly due to a faulty brake system – it was revealed that the driver had nine outstanding summonses.
Liow assured that services were being improved periodically to reduced road accidents, adding that the ministry was relying on the implementation of the Automated Awareness Safety System (AWAS), which combines the Automated Enforcement System (AES) and the Demerit Points System (Kejara), to suspend the licences of reckless drivers.
“We will take action against the defaulters, especially with the AWAS programme when it is launched with the demerit Kejara system. We will be able to cancel their licences,” he added.
Liow claimed back in February that the AWAS system would be a more holistic approach in reducing road accidents, compared to higher compound fines. In May, the Road Transport (Amendment) Bill was passed to allow the system to be introduced, and it is now in the process of being sussed out.
The minister said that one AWAS was implemented, the demerit system would be used against errant drivers – demerit points would be given for each offence, and if a driver reached the maximum allowed points, their driving licence would be suspended.
Is there a law which allows the JPJ to refuse renewal of black-listed drivers’ license?
Ini mesti salah Gov BN!
Malaysians just like to point finger at the Gov, topkek. If you don’t let them renew, they can always drive without license
Thats where driving without licence can land you in jail law enforcers must enforce this law
Don’t let errant ministers be re-elected, rakyat urged
Don’t let errected minister be re-elected too… haha…
Yeah, don’t let stupid people become ministers, yet mostly stupid mcm sial.
that’s why i always say, singapore is good. luckily i am working in Singapore and earning the power SGD and you all are still spending the Banglasia ringgit
Then you shouldn’t come back to Malaysia at all. We surely don’t need non-patriotic divisive people like you here.
The person working in SG pays more gst and help more in Malaysia economy than those nonsense talking, BR1M taking, non tax paying fxxx
Effectiveness depends on enforcement. One rogue driver can cause numerous deaths or injuries plus tax payers monies to repair the road and claims from insurance companies. So, will revoking driving licence will weed these psychos from millions of sane drivers? But there are lots of them driving without one! How about putting violators in jail?
If you study the statistics, accidents happened more by stupid drivers which overtakes on double line road, drive slowly, driving an old outdated car at high speed, don’t know how to drive but still wanna drive. Kecuaian menyebabkan kemalangan. Can a person driving 80kmh at the right most lane of the highway be considered errant or rogue driver?
This is where enforcement officers should do their job and book those moron drivers!
serious, drug addict can easily get a gun, how serious can this license thing be?
it will be forgotten quickly, how many accidents already happened before this? how many action been taken?
Transport minister? close shop already long time for cronies running the show in bolehland..
You can sync or dont let errant motorist renew, it makes no difference. JPJ, Puspakom and PDRM officers all take money and let the offenders lose. This is why Malaysia has 3 million drivers and motorcyclist with NO LESEN. The past 20 years, Polis have been taking so much of money from offenders ie duit kopi that the figure has balooned to 3 million now
For a country with 10 million motorist, having 3 million without lesen is shocking. This means 1 in every 3 people using the road is ILLEGAL. Now you know why accidents happen.
In the recent famous bus accident that rammed into cars, the PDRM and JPJ are solely responsible. Do you know that this particular bus has got 60 summonses that are not settled?
How did they renew the road tax?
You got the answer. It is duit kopi. The lazy JPJ who are corrupted should have long gone and arrested the owner of the bus company many years ago. 60 saman over the past few years for one bas is shocking. So this MP can talk all the rubbish about asking the JPJ DG to sync with polis etc but all this won’t work. the JPJ DG needs to clean corruption from his whole office. Everybody knows, the JPJ is super corrupted at every level.
The bus ramming incident could have been prevented. Our lazy PDRM officers also should have gone and sent a team to investigate how come just one bus can have 60 saman.
My advice to PDRM and JPJ, instead of eating nasi lemak, relaxing in the office, looking for aweks and having 8 tea breaks eating kuih lapis and kuih talam, please take the initiative to prevent accidents.
This accident could have been prevented. 60 samans for 1 bus is not normal
Hundreds of lorry hantu kill hundreds people in Malaysia every year. Whenever JPJ or Polis catch these lorry hantu, the illegal Indon driver just give duit kopi to settle the saman. So, the driver continues his illegal driving.
And JPJ officers and PDRM officers get richer and richer daily.
Hello bodoh bodohs at JPJ, Australia implemented a demerit system 20 years ago. So did Singapore. And it works perfectly well because their officers are not dirty corrupted like Malaysia.
Problem in Malaysia is that, the gomen servants and the monyets monyets in JPJ and SPAD are lazy. Look at the Gomen service, see the majority working there. They are lazy to the core. Always sleep and malas. So what do you expect?
So according to this bodoh minister, the geniuses in the government agencies had never had time to go, “Sir, boleh tak kita integrate database-database kita semua, boleh tolong elak accident masa depan!”. What do they talk about now during meetings, just how to standardize fonts on number plates with enforcement by plastic school rulers?
Also, your stupid AWAS system can prevent brake failures on buses?
If you know people with no education, don’t worry. Join JPJ. Their enforcement officers each earn untung bersih RM3k per day.
Per month, can earn RM90k and no need to pay epf, socso or income tax. Even gaji of CEOs of Bursa Listed companies also kalah
Higher education and improvement on mankind social and psychology mindset is the key to a growing country. Bit and bit narrow logic to overcome an issue by another new issue would not succeed.
You mean higher education like UiTM/Mara? Good luck with that
Oh here’s a money spinning idea – errant offenders can only renew their licence at 1000% of the normal rate
told u so many times, the only solution for errant drivers is to hang them to death. i’m 10000% sure all will be good drivers.
Joke of the day
I am currently on business trip in Taiwan. Came to know from my colleague that
(a)holding a cigarette while riding a bike/driving, OFFENCE!
(b)at a traffic light stop, looking at your handphone and then swipe, OFFENCE!
(c) police taking a bribe if stopped for above 2 offences, DARE NOT! (due to fear of other capturing on phone and posting on media.) – personal embarrassment and termination
I guess the last item in the list is something almost non-existent in our dear country.
Only after the accident only want to take all these action….sigh no eye see all these sleeping ministers la. sleeping all the way
Transport Minister (JPJ) go talk and close the gap with your counterpart who manage (PDRM) laaaaaaaa… If you don’t walk the talk, your instruction forever won’t materialized lar… first day working in Malaysia ka?
Last paragraph first sentence: once* AWAS
Cannot prevent? Are you sure? There was once when my boss tried to renew his licence via runner as was told his name was blacklisted. Either pay the outstanding summons (I suspect because the vehicle was registered to our company old address thus not receiving any mail regarding it) or pay him RM300 donation to renew first.
our ministers always tok kok sing song, once a few months pass lupa d
cannot renew licence??? No problem….kopi money can solve problem…..