The minister of transport and the ministry of works (KKR) are in the final stages of developing a high speed weigh-in-motion (HS-WiM) system to address road crashes caused by overloaded vehicles, reported Bernama.
Installation of the system, particularly at hotspots frequented by overloaded vehicles and at accident black spots, are aimed at ensuring modern and more integrated enforcement, said transport minister Anthony Loke. With HS-WIM, enforcement of heavy vehicles can happen in real-time, automatically, without the need of the vehicle to stop for weighing, and manpower requirements on location can be reduced.
“We know that many accidents occur on the Karak Highway, and for heavy commercial vehicles, we have continuously conducted integrated operations. We will constantly monitor and carry out enforcement operations to reduce accidents. One of the recurring issues is overloading, with logistics lorries carrying excessive loads, and this will be continuously monitored by the ministry,” Loke said.
As of the first quarter of this year, there were 652 accidents involving heavy vehicles such as container lorries, small lorries and express buses, from which 287 deaths and 95 serious injuries resulted.
To alleviate traffic congestion on roads in the long term, the transport ministry would promote the use of railways for transporting cargo, in particular from the Klang Valley to the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Loke added. “Once the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project is completed, we will devise a policy to reduce reliance on heavy trucks. This will lessen the use of trucks on roads,” said the minister.
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the key issues is puspakom effectiveness is at question. pls consider requiring more frequent inspection or at least truck owners is responsible to submit quarterly maintenance report by certified maintenance company. … pls come up with stricter enforcement of ‘lori hantu’.
Should ban all commercial heavy vehicles to use public road from 6am-10pm daily
we are talking about this like it was space science, just copy and paste every other countries that have it in place already for years
Hope this is not going to be waste of money because it is not tackling the root cause.
Weight is a problem but speed is more troubling. On the highway there very few trucks following their speed limit of 70/80.
Those big vehicles…over speeding and over loading. Imagine you are on the highway at 110+km already…and suddenly this large vehicle is even faster than you. Common sense…lack of enforcement.
The photo with the truck shows a vehicle not respecting following distances for the speed being travelled, hence the crushed yellow car. In other countries, he’s 100% liable, as is his employer, for the consequences. Start hammering at the owners of the trucks and the contracting parties, these monkeys behind the wheel will disappear as no-one will hire them (will cost too much) and you’ll get better commercial driving.
Accident investigation is not that easy. One picture alone cannot conclude that the driver not having a safe following distance.
Possible also, the truck driver did have a safe following distance but had a brake failure.
Or the truck driver has a safe following distance but failed to react timely due to distracted with mobile phone.
Or the truck driver has a safe following distance, but the yellow car suddenly change lane and immediately stop in front of the moving truck.
I also saw cars on the middle lane jumble up on the road, I don’t think it was due to the truck. There are more stories about this incident this one picture can tell.
Fine them 10 to 50 times the overweight cost then the owner will take more precautions, ban their vehicle permit too, many ways to do it but if can settle by money then what ways also can’t work
too slow..it means not important..die first la
Anthony letak jawatan jual laksa Penang
compulsory install black box