Monday, 16 Dec 2019 01:32 PM MYTTransport Minister Anthony Loke said the government was clear in enforcing the law and warned lorry operators that they will still face fines for overloading. — Picture by Ben Tan
“We have our own internal policy on this and the Apad Act will usually be applied to serious cases of overloading which endanger motorists and damage roads,” he told reporters after launching Johor Port Berhad’s milestone shipping volume handling of one million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units for this year.Pan-Malaysia Lorry Owners Association president Datuk Ng Koong Sinn had cried foul against the use of the Apad Act rather than the RTD Act 1987 that has a lower fine.
In contrast, both the lorry driver and the lorry operator will get only get a maximum fine of RM2,000 each under the older RTD Act.
Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)
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