Arresting owners of unlicensed vehicles creates financial loss for plantation owners

June 23, 2025

HURFOM: Since June 1^st, 2025, the joint traffic teams of soldiers and police have been arresting owners of unlicensed vehicles and owners of vehicles with temporary licenses across Burma. The program has been strictly enforced in Ye Township, Mon State.

The Ye Township Military Council has been playing a leading role in arresting owners of unlicensed vehicles or owners of vehicles with temporary licenses at the entrance and exit of Ye Town and at the junctions of village roads.

Most plantation owners and workers in Ye Township rely on the use of unlicensed vehicles for transportation of their products. The arrests and often seizure of vehicles is having a huge impact on their work and in the marketplace.

Now is the peak time for the harvesting and selling of seasonal fruits such as durians, pineapples, mangosteen and rambutans to other villages or regions. However, now plantation owners have to hire vehicles with official licenses to transport their products. Their financial profit has declined due to these new costs.

“Most plantation owners use unlicensed vehicles. Now, we have to hire motorbikes with official licenses to transport and sell our products. So we make a small profit,” said one owner.

If an owner sells a durian directly in the market, they will get 10,000 MMK for each. However, the transportation hardship forces them to sell their fruits to the brokers and they get only 8,000 MMK for each.

“Now, we can’t ride our motorbikes so we have to buy things in our village. Everything here is more expensive there than compared to the prices in Ye. As we have to pay a high price, I have a bigger financial hardship,” said a resident from Ye Chaung Pyar region.

Written by HURFOM · Filed Under News