Increased enforcement activity against commercial vehicles of late has unearthed enough cases of non-compliance, with poor condition tyres one of the recurring issues. Given that such vehicles need to undergo regular inspections, shouldn’t these be caught early and prevented from potentially causing the mayhem that we seem to be reading about every other day?
Well, not quite, when subterfuge is at work in the form of tyre rentals, which allow commercial vehicles being inspected by Puspakom to easily pass tyre-related tests during the evaluation.
This is something beyond the vehicle inspection company’s operating scope, said its CEO Mahmood Razak Bahman. He explained that Puspakom has no power to act against owners of commercial vehicles who rent tyres from “cosmetic agents” so their vehicles can pass inspections at its centres, as FMT reports.
He condemned such services as being irresponsible and harmful towards road users. “Commercial vehicle users must be transparent during inspections and be aware that renting tyres can threaten the safety of all road users,” he said.
He was commenting on the call by transport consultant Rosli Azad Khan for the government to tackle the problem of “cosmetic agents” in the transport industry, following posts being made about such tyre rental services on social media.
Mahmood said Puspakom welcomes any action from the road transport department (JPJ) to tackle the issue and eradicate such activity. “Puspakom does not compromise in its vehicle inspections. For example, more than 220,000 out of 2.8 million commercial vehicles fail Puspakom inspections every year,” he told the publication.
Of course, things aren’t looking exactly watertight during inspections, as shown by the results of Op Mengejut Puspakom, in which JPJ carried out surprise checks on Puspakom centres nationwide yesterday.
During the operation, JPJ personnel inspected 115 lorries, issued 69 summonses and took action against 29 vehicles, also seizing five cars and two lorries in the process, Several offences by lorry drivers were identified, including the use of unsafe, worn-out retreaded tyres. It was also reported that two Puspakom staff from the comapny’s Wangsa Maju branch have been summoned to provide statements to JPJ.
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There’s a passing inspection package available just go get the Runner to do it.
You don’t need to stop them. You just need to fail the inspection.
How can these “cosmetic agents” get the license to operate business?
Anwar menang rasuah hapus
Amende la susah sangat nak implement. Develop la special coating untuk dicop kt tepi tayar yang dah dicek. Kata 6 bulan kena pergi cek kt puspakom. X leh pakai punya CEO. Baru le boleh pakai corporate value tu yang kononnya provide social value as presented in annual report.
That’s admissions that depending on puspakom alone to ensure heavy vehicle complying to safety standards is insufficient!!! .. Anthony please don’t continue to lie our conscience.. we know puspakom hv limitation and it’s role. We need something more immediate than annual inspection. by periodic or by mileage based inspection and maintenance more relevant. Hence prove your maintenance and inspection per standard by manufacturer and done by accountable workshops!!!
Inspection failing puspakom rate at 220k over 2.8million vehicles meaning failure detection rate at 7%… A random check by JPJ on site caught 29 out of 115, that’s 20%… So this is a good comparison of puspakom effectiveness which is well below 1/3 of jpj own inspection… Y?
Dont think its puspakom. There is a lot of loophole in the whole process (driving license, vehicle inspection etc). The only way is for JPJ/Police to conduct random check and give a very harsh punishment/jail to offenders.
oh what a blatant lie! my friend’s 35 years old nissan cabstar can pass puspakom without doing anything every 6 months, just hand it over to the runner company to ‘pau’, while being the persistent and uncooperative me, send in my 4 years old isuzu to test by myself, will failed twice every time before i get a pass.
If you have no power to identify fraud, then let you inspect is also pointless…
Ask to show lah resit for tayars and maintenance at the very least last, bongok.
Bring your own car for inspection at puspakom = RM30.
Use runner = RM250.
Gerenti lulus.
No power to stop…what a stupid excuse.
The power to stop is during inspections where recalcitrant corrupted Puspakom testers allow “kaotim” commercial vehicles go off scot free.
This Puspakom CEO needs to be sacked.
It is an open secret that runners have a field day at Puspakom centres,where some rotten vehicles are “lulus”.
Culture angpao warga SjkC to blame
then whats ur purpose. dissolve puspakom la
Fatty is just showing now. After that no one need to be responsible!
Now only JPJ & Puspakom knows about all these cheating methods to pass the Puspakom inspection?
From rental of clear windscreen and windows earlier days before JPJ allow full 100% dark tint on rear windows, rental of tyres, using thick thick oil and temporary glue/sealant to reduce or prevent leaks, some sort of spray to temporary increase braking power and the list goes on.
Sleeping and dreaming lah.
I’ve seen one of these ‘cosmetic agent’ before. While waiting for my car to be service at a workshop, a light duty truck came in, asking to borrow tires and brake pads for inspection, the shop owner also happily comply.
So yeah, Puspakom alone really can’t do much to reduce commercial vehicle accident. Strict enforcement and harsh penalty to the vehicle’s company should be implemented.
everything also no power or not their job. u think kerja tu senang ke?
PUSPAKOM is not enforcement agencies. They only control and have power when the vehicle is within their premise only. So many keyboard warrior cannot differentiate the roles between JPJ and PUSPAKOM. So sad.
And Lo and Behold, that is the truth that we all know but the Puspakom only admits it after their 30 years monopoly on vehicle testing. Shame on you.