KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) issued almost 500 compound notices from January to May this year to vehicle owners, including food truck vendors, for hogging public parking spaces.  

The city council said it continued to monitor the situation and would be taking stern action against errant vehicle owners. 

In a statement to The Malaysian Insight, DBKL said it had issued close to 1,000 compounds since the start of last year to offenders.  

“DBKL issued a total of 464 compound notices for the year 2023 and as many as 484 compound notices from January to May 2024.  

“This notice covers all types of vehicles and not only focuses on food trucks. 

“Meanwhile, the total number of vehicles towed is as many as 5,178 for the year 2023 and as many as 2,230 for the period of January to May 2024,” DBKL said. 

The city council added that it would monitor the situation and penalise vehicle owners caught obstructing and abusing parking spaces in Kuala Lumpur.   

Food truck operators who used public parking spaces to run their businesses would also be fined.  

“The vehicle will be removed or towed if the owner still refuses to remove the food truck from the parking lot,” DBKL said.  

DBKL was responding to queries from The Malaysian Insight regarding food truck operators who continued to monopolise public parking spaces in the city centre.

The Malaysian Insight recently found that several food truck operators had stationed their vehicles permanently in these areas. 

Residents and other stakeholders have raised concerns over the matter. 

DBKL’s corporate communications unit said no permission had been given to these food truck operators to use the public parking lots. 

It said vehicles could be towed away for breaching regulations. 

DBKL added that all vehicles removed would be kept at the vehicle storage depots in Jalan Tun Razak and Jalan Lombong, off Jalan Cheras.

In an earlier report, food truck operators said they could not be solely blamed for the situation and hoped to meet the KL mayor to find a solution. – August 1, 2024.