The Road Transport Department (JPJ) has announced that current and future taxi and ride-hailing drivers (i.e. Grab) will be able to register for a public service vehicle (PSV) licence at authorised e-Hailing Operator (eHO) driving institutes and training centres, starting from April 1.
As outlined previously, these drivers are required to obtain the licence – which involves sitting for a six-hour training course at a cost of RM200 – before July 12, which is when JPJ will enforce its new rules meant to regulate the ride-hailing industry and level the playing field for taxi drivers. Under the regulations, all taxi and ride-hailing drivers will need to hold a PSV licence as listed under Section 56 of the Road Transport Act 1987.
The new physical vocational licence (PSV – Taxi/E-hailing) will be issued and printed to drivers who have been successfully licensed, while existing taxi drivers will have their current licence (PSV – Taxi) updated once they renew them.
Vehicles to be used for ride-hailing duty that are less than three years old will also need to be converted from an Individual Private Vehicle to an e-hailing Private Vehicle. For now, the road tax structure remains the same as for cars with Individual Private registration, although JPJ said that any change will be communicated by the government from time to time.
Meanwhile, vehicles that are more than three years old (Grab, for its part, allows cars up to 10 years old) are required to undergo a Puspakom initial inspection before the conversion, plus a yearly periodic inspection after that. All ride-hailing vehicles must feature a special sticker issued by eHO centres as outlined by JPJ, as well as a fire extinguisher and a first-aid kit for vehicles with nine seats or more.
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the gomen is killing the service slowly… hail taxi owners!!
Waiting for Grab to close. The rakyat needs teksi, not this useless online taxi
You’ve never taken a taxi huh? They scam people, have smelly cars and bad attitude.
Rakyat don’t want lazy people. Grab drivers work hard. they keep on time and they charge 1/3 what teksi charges.
Also teksi is so smelly with smoke smell. Drivers always smoke before picking up passengers.
Yes new government, more cronies, congrats!
apa susah? sesiapa tak akan tahu kereta grab atau tidak sehingga la grab gunakan kereta sebagai papan iklan. jika tiada lambang grab pada kereta jpj/polis tidak boleh buktikan pemandu bersalah kerana tiada PSV?
teksi drivers before very lazy. Never work hard. Work only Monday to Thursday.
Friday, Sat and Sun lepak
Yellow cab and red cab drivers are all lazy. Just want easy way in life. Do little work but want lots of money
More hurdles for Grab. Less drivers. Taxis more business. Cronies wins. The rakyat has voted for this. So be happy and continue suffer the worse taxi service in the world.
you are right. Just to give the old fellows jobs. They are so lazy and never work hard
All the time want free or want discounts.
Pity the Grab drivers. All these requirements was because the abang abang teksi protested and made so much of noise as they were jealous that the Grab drivers were providing efficient, honest and clean alternatives.
I am so sorry Grab drivers. You guys have done such a great job. It is a pity that those lazy teksi drivers cannot tolerate fair competition and they are so used to everything given to them free and easy
All same type as john. Lepak mentality from the education system of the previous government. Pemalas, lepak, samseng, etc
Well said. Pampered.
You told us to vote for these joker, remember?
We are known to have the laziest and dirtiest and rudest teksi drivers in the world. No 1 ranking.
Time for these teksi drivers to work hard like Grab drivers
Another waste of time and money intiative by the gov.. The ones they needd to inspect is those taxis that are so smelly and some not even road worthy… Ehailing like grab has their own rating system which does a better job without need of such regulation.. The onluly issue is when accident occurs and passenger hurt whos to blame and which insurance covers.. Thats the only thing that needs solving and clear direction not this other bullshit… As always malaysia boleh.. For the benefit of a few many must suffer…
Agree , the f up run down taxi car never inspected !! This new g is epic failure in rolling out every damn thing from SST
Once again government getting involved in the private sector and ruining a company/industry. In the end it’s not the companies that lose but it’s the people who lose.
This is April’s fool joke.
Something important like this how last minute tell.. Trust me its April’s fool lagi2 is 1st April.
Ranks up there with PH flying car as best joke of the year. Waiting more jokes incoming
Bribe 100 ringgit to one well-linked jackass, done. Save time and money. This is Malaysia
Insurance policy premium for cars registered as e-hailing might increase as the insurance company might say that the risk of accident is higher. Can drivers should protest like taxi drivers.
So much for the so-called 1 year grace period when 9 months of that period is taken up by the authorities to come up with the guidelines and procedures. That’s what happens when announcement is made and dateline is set before any groundwork.
gov think ehailing drivers are rich guys
Same category as taxi, but want ask Anthony loke, the fare between e hailing and taxi got same? E hailing fare is very cheap like lelong… driver earn very less only still want so many requirements, all bullshit.
Cuba Google pemandu taxi terburuk didunia. Cuba teka negara apa yg keluar. Yea….. anda betul…. Malaysia. Pemandu selalu ikut jalan jauh supaya tambang tinggi. Harga main sebut ikut mulut tak nak pakai meter. Sesetengah tempat pemadu cakap dia tak pergi nnt balik kosong. Baik tak payah bawak taxi kalau memilih tempat. Buat penat tahan je.
I’m a grab driver, Be honestly everybody earn to living. Now this issues came up & i feel really guilty. Humans help and growth each other not discriminate or look down on people’s are suffering. This is what exactly happening in Malaysia
As a part time grab driver, since the useless Transport Minister want to make the things to become complicate so we just choose to quit. Passenger will like so much the taxi, when face on unreasonable fees and bad service.