PETALING JAYA: Twenty-seven Konsortium Transnasional Bhd (KTB) bus
permits for the Kuala Lumpur - Kota Bharu route will be suspended from
April 23, following the Bentong crash that claimed three lives on April
12.
The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) said an audit on KTB
found that the company did not monitor its bus fleet’s speed limits, and
that the Global Positioning System (GPS) on these buses were not
working.
“SPAD will in effect on April 23, 2014, suspend 27 Transnasional
express bus permits on the east-north sector route, following an
accident involving the company,” its chief executive Mohd Nur Ismal
Kamal said in a statement.
He warned that similar action would “definitely” be taken against
operators whose buses were involved in accidents last week if they were
found to have violated licence conditions.
Following this action against KTB, he said SPAD would audit all bus
operators in the peninsula on the monitoring of their GPS speed limit
compliance. Operators who fail to follow set conditions will have their
licences suspended.
Mohd Nur said SPAD would require operators to:
- Appoint controllers to monitor the speed limit of buses in realtime, and act if drivers break speed limits;
- Take strong action against drivers who violate safety regulations and report them to SPAD;
- Update their drivers’ details through SPAD’s Driver Information System;
- Present their GPS speed limit observation reports to SPAD, and explain speed limit violations, if any; and
- Display bus supervisor hotline information in and out of the bus for passengers’ convenience.
Mohd Nur also said that SPAD was studying the possibility of using “black boxes” and speed limiters in trade vehicles.
On April 12, a Somalian and his pregnant Malaysian wife and another
passenger were killed in a bus crash near Bentong. Ten others, including
the driver, who later tested positive for drug, were injured.
On April 19, 10 people were injured when an express bus crashed into a road divider on the East Coast Highway.
Source: The Star Online | 22 May 2014
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