The nationwide Ops Luxury crackdown on un-road taxed and uninsured luxury vehicles continues, and the Melaka road transport department (JPJ) has seized seven luxury vehicles with an estimated total value of nearly RM6 million between July 1 and 12, Bernama reports.
“The latest luxury vehicle seized was a Toyota Alphard driven by a Myanmar national with six other men of the same nationality, traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Johor Bahru. The seizure took place at the Jasin toll entrance around 10 am this morning.
“The driver was found to not have a valid driving licence, and none of them had valid travel documents before being handed over to the police for further action,” Melaka JPJ director Siti Zarina Mohd Yusop said yesterday, adding that the Alphard is owned by a Malaysian and that a detailed investigation is underway to determine if the car was rented to the foreigners involved.
Separately, 36 motorbikes ridden by foreigners were also seized under Ops PeWA (pemandu/penunggang warga asing) yesterday in Melaka, she revealed.
“The foreigners riding motorcycles were from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Rohingya, Myanmar and Vietnam. The main offences detected were driving without a licence, expired road tax and lack of insurance,” she said.
JPJ has reportedly identified over 1,000 luxury vehicles in Malaysia with long-expired road tax, some of which are apparently owned by celebrities and prominent business figures who claim the cars are only used as ‘weekend cars’. ‘Lupa‘ (I forgot) is another excuse. June’s Ops Luxury, July’s Ops Luxury 2.0 and the most recent Ops Luxury 3.0 have altogether seized 258 cars.
JPJ’s Ops Luxury, Ops Luxury 2.0 and Ops Luxury 3.0
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if enforcement is active, sure there will be a lot of interesting findings. all these while mot and jpj have been contended with counter service only. it is more important to carry out enforcement / penguatkuasaan than counter service !!!
without enforcement, whatever enactment or regulation setup by law makers, will be useless lying idle on paper. please keep up enforcement effort beyond this term of transport minister!
very enterprising rohingya , somehow got his hands on a alphard and using it to ferry his countrymen around. malaysian truly is the land of oppotunity where immigrants can work , earn a living, get Dato title, one day even become PM (kerala and bugis warrior)
oh…skrg baru keje sikit yeh jpj…lepas dah viral sosial.
Here’s why I think the enforcement agencies are working double time. Modern cars are fitted with Telematics systems. In layman’s terms, monitoring technologies. At the basic level it remotely sends data to the car companies, at a more advanced level via WiFi or direct connection at the service centers. Data that is sent to them on the basic level are (Reason why Polis/JPJ is so hardworking now):
1. Position (Polis/JPJ can’t say they can’t find the car)
2. Vehicle Speed (Polis/JPJ can’t say you didn’t speed in the highway or roads anymore)
3. Trip distance/time (doing something naughty?)
4. Idling time (doing something naughty 2?)
5. Harsh Braking and Driving (Aggressive driver/Road Rage)
6. Seat Belt use (Yeap)
7. Fuel consumption (modified vehicle tank?)
8. Battery & Engine data (modified your car?)
At the basic level, enforcement agencies now no longer have any excuse why they didn’t do their work. All the data is in the system. Double parking folks? The car data is there (GPS-stopped/idle for too long + Parking ticket database-none = saman).
There are of course more advanced Telematics that is installed in luxury cars that includes audio, thermal or visual (care for a zoom meeting?). And I’m singling out luxury cars as this article is specifically talking about it.
Add all of them together, well – at least for cars fitted with ADAS systems. enforcement agencies no longer can tell their supervisors they can’t find: illegal immigrants (no passport maids?), expired road tax, uninsured cars, or criminals on the move. It is a low hanging fruit- no mention of catching non luxury or old vehicles anywhere, but at least it’s a good start.
your idea wont work because A. not cars have telematics installed by default , B. for those cars that do , it may not be reported back to car company HQ because that requires a constant data connection, C. data transmission it may require explicit user consent which may require amendment of laws, and D. pdrm/jpj dont have expertise in such matters