Compliance for a Singapore commercial fleet means three separate regulators with three separate rulebooks: LTA on the vehicle, Traffic Police on the road, and MOM on the driver.
This section covers Traffic Police weight limits, loading rules and route restrictions for commercial vehicles; what MOM expects from fleet operators on driver compliance; the Vehicle Parking Certificate (VPC) requirement and when you need one; and MOM foreign worker levy rates by sector and tier, which affect the real cost of running a fleet with foreign drivers.
None of this is optional reading — LTA and MOM audits don’t accept “I didn’t know.”
Singapore fleets carrying petroleum, chemicals, or compressed gas need an SCDF Petroleum & Flammable Materials Transport Licence for the vehicle, a HazMat Transport Driver Permit on top of the ordinary Class 4/5 licence, and a route plan that works around LTA’s ban on dangerous-goods vehicles in road tunnels.
Modifying a commercial vehicle in Singapore — a reefer box, tipper hydraulics, a tanker shell, a wheelchair ramp — triggers LTA’s structural approval and inspection process before the log card can be updated. Getting that vehicle into Changi airside, a PSA terminal, or Jurong Island then requires a separate layer of passes and permits from CAG, PSA, JTC and SCDF, on top of the correct driving licence class.
QUICK ANSWER Singapore doesn’t work off a single “don’t overload the truck” rule — it sets weight limits per axle under the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Construction and Use) Rules, on top of separate maximum-laden-weight classes that decide parking, speed-limiter and inspection requirements. LTA and Traffic Police run joint islandwide operations checking for overloading, insecure…
Licence classes, working hours, rest days, and medical exams for commercial drivers in Singapore.
A plain-English breakdown of Singapore’s Vehicle Parking Certificate scheme for heavy vehicle owners, including the 2026 trial suspension for trailers and the wider goods vehicle registration checklist.
Current MOM foreign worker levy rates by sector and skills tier, how the Services-sector dependency ratio ceiling works, and what a logistics or delivery fleet actually pays — sourced directly from MOM.
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