JPJ senior director of enforcement Lokman Jamaan said 719,766 vehicles were inspected during the operation carried out from Nov 1 to 29.

He said the summonses were for offences under the Road Transport Act 1987, the Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board Act 1987, the Land Public Transport Act 2010, and the Tourism Vehicles Licensing Act 1999.

“The summonses were issued for various offences, including technical offences (28,192), not having competent driving licences (28,039), expired motor vehicle licences (20,537), no insurance coverage (16,166), not having a vocational driving licence (5,838) and overloaded vehicles (2,686).

“We also found that a number of road users still had a low level of compliance with traffic rules and regulations, at 25%,” he said at a press conference at the North-South Expressway Senawang toll plaza here today.

Lokman said JPJ detected seven other main offences for which summonses were issued, during the operation. These included not wearing seatbelts (1,388), running red lights (791) and not wearing helmets (612).

“We also issued summonses to 5,811 foreign drivers for driving  without valid licences, which is a serious offence,” he said.

He also said a total of 2,360 demerit points were imposed on motorists that from January to October, with 1,966 licence holders being warned, suspended for the first time (333), the second time (49) and the third time (five), while the licences of six probationary drivers were revoked.