ILLEGAL TAXI

Date: 06/03/2008 [THURSDAY]

The Road Transport Department (RTD) Miri will not compromise with any vehicles or illegal taxi including those from neighbouring countries which are found to be operating without a valid permit. Head of RTD Miri, Encik Rosilan Mohd. Sari says it is an offence for any vehicles including those from Brunei Darussalam and Indonesia to provide taxi services and ferrying passengers without a valid permit from the Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board (CVLB). He said as todate, RTD had detained four Indonesian registered four wheel vehicles during it monthly operation 'Ops Pengarah' which ferrying passengers from Brunei to Pontianak, Indonesia. The drivers and owners of the vehicles were brought to the Miri Magistrate Court and was charged under Section 33 CVLB on the 29th of January 2008. Each of them were fined two-thousand ringgit. He said RTD will be carrying out operations from time to time in effort to prevent illegal taxis from neighbouring countries to operate in the city freely.