“DRIVERS USUALLY HIDE THEM”: LOCAL FIRM WITH 22,017 SUMMONSES
KDEB Waste Management, the firm identified with the most number of summonses under the logistics category, has denied responsibility for more than 22,017 active summonses for vehicles it owns.
A spokesperson from KDEB said the firm owns around 1,400 lorries registered under its name but these vehicles are operated by subcontractors managing solid waste collection across Selangor.
“When these operators receive summonses, the drivers usually hide them and don’t pass them to the contractors or to us. In other words, KDEB has no knowledge of it,” KDEB’s managing director Ramli Tahir told local news outlet Free Malaysia Today (FMT).
“When a summons remains unpaid for three months, (then) the road transport department will issue the summons to the registered address and it ends up at our office in Shah Alam,” Ramli added.
The managing director said KDEB has paid more than 12,000 summonses issued to vehicles driven by the staff of subcontractors for various offences.
“It’s just the remaining 22,000 summonses that we’re in the process of settling now because we received them late. The operator or the driver did not hand them over to KDEB. It is possible they were hidden or discarded,” Ramli said, as quoted by FMT.
He added that KDEB would deduct the summons payment from the monthly payments made to the relevant subcontractors.
The firm also reaffirmed its full commitment to strengthening internal monitoring systems, improving communication with subcontractors and ensuring consistent and principled compliance with road laws” in the interest of the people and the nation”, reported the New Straits Times.
Earlier this month, 15 students from Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI) were killed when the bus transporting them lost control after colliding with a multi-purpose vehicle on the East-West Highway near Gerik town in Perak.
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