KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 -- Heavy vehicles, including lorries and buses, will no longer be allowed to use the right lane on highways and must remain in the leftmost lane except when overtaking.

This is one of five new measures to be enforced by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) as part of stricter regulations for commercial vehicles, particularly lorries and buses, as reported by Berita Harian (BH) today.

Other improvements include the mandatory installation of speed limiters, global positioning system (GPS) devices, high-speed weigh-in-motion (HS-WIM) sensors at 11 highway locations, and an increase in automated enforcement system (AES) cameras.

Datuk Jana Santhiran Muniayan, the secretary-general of the Ministry of Transport, stated that...