Commercial vehicle owners, take note. Puspakom has announced additional tests in the mandatory periodic inspection (pemeriksaan berkala) procedure, following orders from the road transport department (JPJ). Effective October 1, 2025, there are two new tests – one for the tyres and another for the brakes.
For tyres, minimum air pressure will now be checked. If a vehicle’s tyre is unusually underinflated, the vehicle will fail the inspection and the fault must be corrected before re-inspection.
In the brake test department, drag force reading will now be recorded. The recommended maximum reading should not exceed 10% for each axle. Drag force refers to pressure on the braking system when the brake pedal is not being pressed.
These two new points are in addition to the new points in four key areas that came into force on September 1. Ordered by JPJ, the four areas are brake system efficiency, brake test for trailers, tyres and visual inspection. Should there be a failure of any item that functions as a pair in a system, all related items will have to be inspected again in the retest. Also, the functionality test for bogie axles is now mandatory.
You can refer to this post for the new items that kicked in last month. Commercial vehicle owners, take note and prepare accordingly.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) is currently investigating the lorry involved in a fatal crash at a Kajang toll plaza last week, with brake failure as a suspected cause. A one-year-old child was thrown out of a car and passed away, while seven others were injured in the crash that went viral.
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this will raise costs for the transport industry and everyone will feel the pinch.
source – transport company boss.
For 50 years puspakom has operated with zero oversight and full discretion to pass whoever bids more. No need to talk cats of canary kangaroo here
then the blame should go to syed mokhtar who controls puspakom
what a joke
After a big accident…all the hoohaa..as usual.
Kementerian will instruct Puspakom to check this and that.
When is this ‘showmanship” damage control going to end?
We dont hear this shit from our southern neighbour,where the biggest corruption case is a menteri acccepting some free bees from someone.
The victim family should sue JPJ Puspakom and the transport company. Crowd source for legal fund . Many will support
What do you want to tightened actually those colourful papers for undertable settled already or not since being monopoly in the country for shoddy inspection and pass.
The spend time on bugging those using tint that is cleared by jpj and ask for $$ instead of doing the real job ..puspakom should be revoke n the first place only bully the normal drivers instead of the culprit , go check which puspakom clear the lorry earlier
Wayang je lah
“Puspakom tightens routine inspection procedure”
Wait, you mean it wasn’t tight at all previously? Then what the heck are they doing letting these unsafe vehicles on the road?
Jpj n puspakom, please check if they have installed musical air horn. Those horns r aldy banned. It is connected to the air brake compressor which will cause not enough pressure to the brakes.