Zero ODOL Enforcement Set for January 2027 as Industry Group Disputes Government's 98 Percent Data Integration Claim

The Transport Ministry has reaffirmed that the Zero ODOL policy, banning over-dimensional and overloaded trucks, takes effect in January 2027. Officials claim integration of trucking and logistics data is 98 percent complete, with a monitoring dashboard shared between ministries and an electronic traffic enforcement pilot from 10 August to 10 September 2026 that recorded 72,236 detections of 46,034 unique vehicles across 51 points, though only 1,227 cases were verified and 467 administrative violations billed.

Trucking association Aptrindo disputes the readiness claim. Its position, reported on 11 November, is that the national SRUT vehicle registry held by the ministry remains unconnected to the KIR roadworthiness registers held by provincial and municipal transport offices, meaning enforcement cameras and weigh-in-motion systems cannot reliably match vehicles to their records. The ETLE Hub is linked to the Blu-e freight vehicle database, but the registry gap remains.

The dispute frames the policy's real bottleneck: not vehicle compliance itself, but the data plumbing behind enforcement. Fleet operators, vehicle registries and enforcement systems need reconciled data for the January deadline to function, and the two-month window leaves little room for manual reconciliation at national scale.