Loke warns against easing overloaded vehicle crackdown after his resignation

THE crackdown on overloaded commercial vehicles must continue despite Anthony Loke's resignation as Transport Minister, with the former minister warning the Road Transport Department (JPJ) against allowing offenders to return to their previous practices.

Loke said some parties were apparently celebrating his departure, believing that enforcement against overloading would be relaxed now that he was no longer heading the ministry.

He said such expectations must not undermine the enforcement campaign, which he insisted should continue regardless of who held the ministerial post.

“Some people are very happy because they say the uncompromising minister who wanted to disrupt their livelihood is gone.

“They say the minister is gone, so they can go back to overloading their vehicles and carrying excessive loads as before, without any problems,” he said at the Transport Ministry's monthly assembly in Putrajaya today.

Loke challenged JPJ to prove those parties wrong by maintaining firm action against vehicles carrying excessive loads.

“I want JPJ to prove them wrong. The war against overloading, with or without me, will continue,” he said.

He also called on JPJ director-general Aedy Fadly Ramli to ensure the department remained committed to the crackdown.

JPJ launched Op Perang Lebih Muatan on Oct 14 last year to curb overloading offences involving commercial vehicle operators and drivers.

Loke announced his immediate resignation as Transport Minister yesterday following the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision allowing former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to serve the remainder of his prison sentence under house arrest. - November 11, 2026