The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) is proposing a total of 11 initiatives to help transform the taxi service and address the implementation of e-hailing services. These will be decided by the Cabinet this week, The Sun reports.
Among these is a revamp of Teksi 1Malaysia (TEKS1M), with drivers being given an opportunity to own individual taxi permits under a liberalisation of permits that will come about by year-end. Individual taxi permits will be issued to cabbies with good and clean track records so as to help them exit the pajak (leasing) model and move towards entrepreneurship, SPAD CEO Mohd Azharuddin Mat Sah told the publication.
He added that taxi drivers who qualify for individual permits should be given funds to buy new vehicles. The move is being looked as an overhaul plan to solve the long standing issue of the pajak system, which has been plaguing the industry for ages.
The report added that models such as Perodua Myvi, Axia, Bezza and Proton Iriz are to be included under the TEKS1M fleet, though these compact cars will be restricted from transporting passengers to and from airports.
The last individual permits issuance exercise carried out by SPAD was in 2013, with 2,000 permits being issued under TEKS1M’s first phase, essentially through the replacement of dormant cab permits instead of creating new ones.
Presently, there are around 77,000 taxi drivers nationwide, and of these, around 40% hold individual permits. In the next three years, it is estimated about 150,000 new individual permit holders will co-exist in the market.
An unnamed Transport Ministry official told The Sun that permits will also be opened to individuals registered with app-based transportation network companies such as Uber and Grab. “To be eligible for the individual permits, one must not have outstanding traffic summonses and criminal record,” he said. It remains to be seen whether the insurance industry and financial institutions will agree to allow private cars to be converted to modern taxis.
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Anything with “1malaysia ” …. seems to fail and seen as corrupt now ….
Currently, ALL teksi permits are owned by a handful of big UMNO guns. Yes, each one holds hundreds of permits.
And they cekik the poor teksi driver.
Each UMNO big gun earns millions per month just holding these permits. How they going to cari makan now?
In order to be the No.1 most popular officeman No-1, you must think of the welfare of the whole USA, developing the nation for the whole nation; fanatics like black vs white in USA.
The figures are clear cut. No of permits 77k. Individual permit holders = 40%. Company permit holders = 50,0000 pcs/cars
Kunta
They have been cekeking innocent rakyat for donkey years.
Just watch and see.They will come out with another scheme where they untung kaw kaw.
Bolehland….the land of Everlasting Cekeking and Perlindungan.
There’s always a work around
Our tagline “Malaysia Boleh” is for real
You see permit will only be approved to individuals who had signed a pre sale agreement to that handful of elites
In other words in order to get their license they will have to first sign a paper sayings that their permit is sold/transfered to those elites
Essentially a pajak system
Same shit different day ;)
Party Hard Malaysia xbleh pakai, cuma Party Hard USA saje ada credibility… oh wai
Still talking about Party Hard. Nobody likes your hatred la. that is why you are the record holder. You got 640 dislikes in the Driven Bezza article. That is a record !!!
Macam mana kawan2 nak cari makan?
yes, they will be issued individual permits
just like in 2013
an election year
the next one will be in 2018, where SPAD now will have to form committee, brainstorm ideas, pay more consultant fees than wallaaaaaaa in year 2018 another 2000 permits are issued
let uber and grab rule the road…. taxi industry in malaysia is already dead long time ago.
Look, it is about time someone raises the obvious.
Many developed countries use big cars like D-segment sedans as taxis because of the obvious benefits to the passengers which is great comfort and big luggage space. So when I see dungu SPAD asking for cars like myvi, axia, bezza and iriz to be proposed as taxis, we should instead raise the minimum standard of taxis to camry, accord, teana, optima, sonata, etc. Heck, if they implement this D-segment standard, proton may survive by selling enough units of the pondana!
“To be eligible for the individual permits, one must not have outstanding traffic summonses and criminal record,” After you obtained the taxi permit, they don’t bother anymore whether you got several hundred unpaid summons after that. Only in Malaysia.
Transformation yukkk vomit blood.still using these tactics to fool rakyat.
SPAD should be renamed SPIT…PYUI.
THEY have been talking 3 and 4 for almost a year and still cannot fix the problem.
Sometimes you have to ask why.
Why a govt dept to control who picks up who from where?
Why are we paying these goons?
Taxis are private, Uber, Grab are private. Why is the govt involved in private ventures??
Because there’s easy money to be made…
It’s long overdue. They should have their own permits.
They are paying too much now, and because of that, they are forced to do all kinds of things to enhance their income….like not using the meter etc..
No need taxis lah!
Just focus on UBER & GRAB.
Sickening red taxis drivers….Useless drivers and lazy bums….
Gangsters and scums of Malaysia….backed by the cronies and goons.