Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board Restructuring - Another Rip-Off?
The Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board (CVLB) will be restructured and beefed up to enable it to play a more effective role. To achieve this, the Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board Act, 1987 would be amended to turn the board into a statutory body like the Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) with its own administrative structure, technical committee, law structure and the power to make decisions. The draft of the amendment was being finalised and would be submitted to the Cabinet soon.
Currently, the Board's powers were too limited and it was overly dependent on the ministry and other agencies, especially the Road Transport Department to enforce its rules. This had prevented it from being truly effective. Under the amendment, the Board's enforcement personnel would be increased from the current 26 to 400 throughout the country to enable it to function more effectively.
**** The above is pure bullshit. The CVLB is not going to be more effective but instead it will be more expensive for all the users of this board. As it is the hassles owners of public transport vehicles and license holders experience is bad enough.
The first victims will be all the drivers of commercial vehicles who right now pay a reasonable sum for a medical examination prior to getting their annual licences/permits renewed. There has been talk in the air that some sort of monopoly is being worked out whereby only certain clinics in the panel of this new body will do the medical exam at a far higher rate than at present. (You are also entitled to guess which clinics will be on this panel).
Even a staff of 400 is peanuts for the type of responsibility handed out to this new body. If the ministry and the gargantuan JPJ did a lousy job thus far, how can you expect this small entity to perform? To give these monkeys statutory powers is to create another level of 'little Napoleons' who mark my words, will become a power unto themselves, where mismanagement and corruption will be the rule rather than the exception. The head of this body will join the ranks of mayors and presidents of local authorities as the most sought after posts. The 'returns' will be worth the fight to get the job.
This is nothing but another money making venture on behalf of some crony who over time will screw things up pretty good; as much as the others have done over the years. It is most unfortunate that it will be the poor drivers who will suffer the most.
Currently, the Board's powers were too limited and it was overly dependent on the ministry and other agencies, especially the Road Transport Department to enforce its rules. This had prevented it from being truly effective. Under the amendment, the Board's enforcement personnel would be increased from the current 26 to 400 throughout the country to enable it to function more effectively.
**** The above is pure bullshit. The CVLB is not going to be more effective but instead it will be more expensive for all the users of this board. As it is the hassles owners of public transport vehicles and license holders experience is bad enough.
The first victims will be all the drivers of commercial vehicles who right now pay a reasonable sum for a medical examination prior to getting their annual licences/permits renewed. There has been talk in the air that some sort of monopoly is being worked out whereby only certain clinics in the panel of this new body will do the medical exam at a far higher rate than at present. (You are also entitled to guess which clinics will be on this panel).
Even a staff of 400 is peanuts for the type of responsibility handed out to this new body. If the ministry and the gargantuan JPJ did a lousy job thus far, how can you expect this small entity to perform? To give these monkeys statutory powers is to create another level of 'little Napoleons' who mark my words, will become a power unto themselves, where mismanagement and corruption will be the rule rather than the exception. The head of this body will join the ranks of mayors and presidents of local authorities as the most sought after posts. The 'returns' will be worth the fight to get the job.
This is nothing but another money making venture on behalf of some crony who over time will screw things up pretty good; as much as the others have done over the years. It is most unfortunate that it will be the poor drivers who will suffer the most.
posted by The Malaysian. at 7/07/2006 12:52:00 PM
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