Speed limiter verification compliance only 15% so far

Road transport department (JPJ) director-general Datuk Aedy Fadly Ramli has said that as of March 12, only 15%, or 74,552 of the 513,679 commercial vehicles required to install speed limiter devices (SLD), have notified the JPJ of their SLD installation, Bernama reports.

Strangely, this contrasts sharply with the 48.37% compliance rate transport minister Anthony Loke announced in December, although details were not elaborated upon then – there could possibly be a distinction between ‘installed’ and ‘verified’, or vehicles that already have SLDs installed, whether factory or retrofitted, versus just those that need to retrofit them.

To jog your memory, owners of vehicles with SLDs – which limit speed to 90 km/h – installed by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) must submit the SLD functional verification slip from the OEM. For vehicles with retrofitted SLDs (installed after purchase), owners must submit the SLD functional verification slip from a JPJ-recognised certifier.

Said documents must always be kept in the vehicle for enforcement purposes, and the verification must be renewed every two years to ensure the SLD is still working as intended. All parties involved in the verification must upload each vehicle’s verification slip and functionality report on JPJ’s online system as evidence, and updating must be done weekly.

According to Aedy Fadly, the remaining 85%, or 439,127 vehicles, have yet to notify JPJ of their SLD installation, and a special SLD enforcement operation was carried out from October 1 to March 12. Enforcement will continue over Hari Raya, with SLD verification certificates to be among the inspection items.

“During that period (October-March), a total of 111,743 commercial vehicles were inspected, with 8,924 vehicles issued notices for investigation under Section 114 for various offences related to compliance and the functionality of the speed-limiting device,” he told a press conference recently.

“Among the reasons for the low compliance is that some companies have applied for a postponement of installation as they do not have access to local hardware and have to source installations abroad, which requires additional time,” he added.

Enforced since October 1, SLDs are mandatory for goods vehicles with a gross weight (BDM) above 3,500 kg, and tour and express buses with a BDM above 5,000 kg and passenger capacity of more than eight.

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