The road transport department (JPJ) and the ministry of domestic trade and cost of living (KPDN) will be meeting next week to discuss the activities of “cosmetic agents” at Puspakom vehicle inspection centres, New Straits Times has reported.
The ‘cosmetic agents’ have been said to offer rental tyres to owners of commercial vehicles in order for the vehicles to pass Puspakom inspections, and KPDN director-general of enforcement Datuk Azman Adam said that he was contacted by JPJ director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli regarding the matter.
“Let us discuss with [JPJ] first, then we can issue a statement. We haven’t had the discussion yet and don’t know the outcome of it. The discussion will be held this week (next week),” Azman was quoted as saying.
He contacted me yesterday, and once the discussion is completed, I’ll be able to provide more information. We will discuss and look into which areas of jurisdiction can be further examined, that’s what we need to look into in detail,” he said.
The road transport department plans to collaborate with KPDN in addressing the issue, Aedy Fadly said. “We will discuss and look into which areas of jurisdiction can be further examined, that’s what we need to look into in detail. However, [JPJ] has no authority to enter these premises, so we will discuss this with the ministry,” he said in an earlier report.
At the end of last month, Puspakom CEO Mahmood Razak Bahman said that the inspection company 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.
However, 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.
Services offered by ‘cosmetic agents’ such as the changing of components – such as tyres – to new ones in good condition simply to pass Puspakom inspections came under the spotlight after a multiple-vehicle incident in Alor Gajah resulted in seven lives lost, stemming from a tyre that had detached from a lorry trailer.
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Cosmetic agents pass pass just like the immigration etc. to abuse the system together hush hush.
If there are so many cases, implement each rim with a microchip, or a RFID just like touch n go. From there, all tyres must be registered into the system so that traceability and transparency is in place. To make things easy, implement a law and enforce it.
Err…u put chip on the rim but register the tire into the system?
No need to be sooo complicated. Just hot stamped a unique id on the sidewall linking the tire to an inspection. Hot stamped process is to be done by authorised inspection center. Next time the tire comes in, there will be a history of previous inspection and which vehicle it was installed before this.
Yes the stamped id can be grinded off but will cause damaged to the sidewall which render the tire useless, not to mention it will become obvious. And nope, with correct method, the sidewall wont be damaged by the hot stamping process.
Only need drastic action/ maximum fine and terminate business license the company that supply the cosmetics. Seem like the top management does not seem know something fishy going on.
the management staff all got share…
After so many fatal accidents throughout the years, we see NATO after all the hangat news spotlihgt and public outrage subside. The same lame excuses and taichi. “let discuss with…first, then can issue a statement”, “look into which areas of jurisdiction”, “no authority”. More like no accountability is still the norm. With AI and connectivity technologies, there’s plenty that JPJ/KPDN/Puspakom can do quickly and simply to deter these “cosmetic” schemes. Snap pics of the vehicles’ tires at inspection and establish an image database for all inspected commercial vehicles that JPJ/KPDN/Polis can reference on the spot during those traffic Ops, to catch these mismatches. How many unique sets of new cosmetic tires can these agents afford to own???
What is so hard ? record each tyre serial number and tie it to the vehicle. If that serial number appear repeatedly in different vehicle means there is a fraud case.
you think they tak tahu meh, they need to make a living together with the cosmetic companies ma
Get the lorry companies to show proof of purchase of the new tyres. JPJ can track those cos that provide ‘rental’ tyres n charge them in court also . Then easy to clean the industry of these sick players
1) Discussion to be held in grand Hyatt kl for 3 days 2 nights with 5 meals provided a day
2) All expenses paid overseas lawatan sambil belajar to Greenland which don’t have that many vehicles
3) MOT & KPDN each produce their own kertas kerja without talking to each other
4) Present for pembentangan to bang non’s kitchen cabinet then got declined
5) By 2040 still tak siap siap and more deaths happened