SEMENYIH: Two lorry drivers are believed to have tampered with two severely overloaded tipper trucks, including deflating their tyres, in an attempt to prevent them from being seized by the Road Transport Department (RTD) in Putrajaya earlier this month.
The tampering was allegedly done to prevent RTD personnel from seizing the vehicles and towing them back to an enforcement station.
In a separate incident in Rawang last week, RTD officers conducting a routine stop on another lorry were surrounded by a group of men believed to be hired lookouts paid by the lorry’s owner.
RTD Enforcement Division senior director Muhammad Kifli Ma Hassan said the Putrajaya incident, which occurred on April 12, involved the lorry owner arriving at the scene in a Toyota MPV, accompanied by several lookouts (tontos), to create a ruckus and intimidate enforcement officers.
“Checks revealed that the lorry drivers had tampered with the GPS devices and deflated the tyres on both vehicles,” he said.
“For about three days, unknown individuals also lingered in the area along Persiaran Perdana, Putrajaya, to intimidate our personnel and block a tyre repairman from inflating the tyres so the trucks could be seized,” he added.
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