HULU TERENGGANU: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) will be looking into the quality of road tax stickers following complaints the existing ones fade and get torn easily.

Its director-general Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad, speaking to reporters after attending a "Satu Komuniti Satu JPJ (SKSJ)" function in Dewan Sivik Ajil here, said the department will take corrective actions to improve the quality in future issues (of the road tax stickers) and that motorists could change existing ones that were faded or torn for free at any JPJ office.

Also present were Terengganu, Science Education, Technology and Special Functions Committee chairman and Ajil assemblyman Ghazali Taib and Terengganu JPJ director Abdul Rahman Emang Anyie.

He also said that since the JPJ's Skuad Muda 1JPJ was launched on Aug 31 last year, it now had 38,000 members and that the department targeted two million members in two years time.

Meanwhile, Ismail said JPJ detected 33,358 traffic offences throughout the country from July 21 to Aug 5 during the Aidilfitri festive period.

He said during the period, the department's enforcement teams checked 133,144 vehicles and took action on 25,188 motorists for various traffic offences.

Of the cases, 10,524 were not having valid driving licence; no road tax (8,815); not wearing safety helmets, overtaking on doubles lines or on the left, not wearing safety belts (7,160), offences of a technical nature (4,342); violation of the Land Transport Act (554); violations of the Commercial Vehicles Licensing Act (423) and other offences (1,540).

Resource :New Straits Times