Corporations Companies Can Now Buy Special Vehicle Numbers For Rm5 Mil

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Road Transport Department director-general Shaharuddin Khalid. (Bernama pic)PUTRAJAYA: Corporations and private companies are allowed to apply for special vehicle registration numbers beginning today
Road Transport Department (JPJ) director-general Shaharuddin Khalid said each application would be charged RM5 million
Successful applicants would be given numbers from 1 to 1,000. Another RM1 million would be charged for the subsequent 1,000 numbers, starting with the number 1001
For example, he said if Petronas wanted a special registration number for their fleet of vehicles, the fleet’s registration number would start with PETRONAS followed by number 1 until the last number
Speaking at a media conference held to announce the JPJeBid in Penang for registration number PPC, which will take place from Aug 2-6, Shaharuddin said companies would also be allowed to sell the numbers they bought
Shaharuddin said this followed the government’s decision to allow public universities to have special vehicle registration numbers to generate income
Yesterday, Transport Minister Loke Siew Fook was reported to have said that the universities would be able to request for special vehicle registration numbers as a means to sell them to garner funds for their research and development purposes
The universities would have to pay a fee of RM500,000 for each special plate number application and would get a vehicle registration number of up to 10,000, with a three-year period for the sale of the numbers
Loke, when taking over the post of transport minister last year, had said that special vehicle registration numbers would no longer be given to NGOs or private parties
Meanwhile, Shaharuddin said RM9.6 million was generated by the government through the sale of seven series of registration numbers since the JPJeBid system was implemented in April
The series of numbers involved the Federal Territory of Putrajaya (FC), Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (VDN, VDP, VDQ, VDR, VDS) followed by Kedah with its KET number, he said
The bids, through JPJeBid, are based on a minimum set price of RM20,000 for the most valuable number, RM3,000 for attractive numbers, RM800 for popular numbers and RM300 for regular numbers, he said. - FMT

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