Car rent offices in Riyadh, Dammam, Al-Khobar and Jeddah have committed more than 2,000 violations in October and the first two weeks of November for which they were fined more than SR3 million. A committee from the Public Transport Authority has made inspection tours of the offices in the four Saudi cities to make sure that they were law-abiding. According to the committee, the violations included operating without proper licenses or with expired ones. It said a number of the offices did not have the rent contract placed in a clear place for the customer to see or that the client was asked to present more papers than the ID and the driving license. The committee said the offices were parking their cars in unlicensed places and were using cars, which were not insured. The authority asked all the companies, establishments and individuals involved in the transport sector to respect the rules and regulations so as to avoid punishments. It vowed to continue its inspection tours on all car rent offices, trucks, limousine taxicabs and other means of transport to ascertain the nonexistence of violations.
