He said the company owns nearly 1,400 lorries registered under its name, but these were operated by subcontractors managing solid waste collection across Selangor.

“When these operators receive summonses, the drivers usually hide them and don’t pass them to the contractors or to us. In other words, KDEB has no knowledge of it.

“When a summons remains unpaid for three months, the road transport department (JPJ) will issue the summons to the registered address, and it ends up at our office in Shah Alam,” he told FMT.

Ramli said KDEB is required to settle the summonses within two months to avoid court action.

He said the company has paid more than 12,000 summonses issued to vehicles driven by the staff of subcontractors for various offences.

“It’s just the remaining 22,000 summonses that we’re in the process of settling now because we received them late. The operator or the driver didn’t hand them over to KDEB. It is possible they were hidden or discarded.

“We will deduct the (summons payment) from the monthly payments made to the relevant subcontractors.”

He said all subcontractors have agreed to operate in compliance with the law, including settling traffic summonses.

Earlier today, transport minister Loke Siew Fook revealed that 11 commercial vehicle operators were found to have over 1,000 outstanding summonses, including 17 express bus companies with more than 200 each.

He said KDEB, a Selangor government-owned solid waste management company under Menteri Besar Selangor Incorporated, topped the list with 22,017 active summonses.

The offences included technical violations, driving without a valid licence, overloading, operating without a vehicle permit and speeding.

All the companies involved have been given 14 days to settle their outstanding summonses at the JPJ state or branch offices.