According to sources, the General Traffic Department earlier set a ceiling for each delivery licence requests to 15 motorcycles and 10 private cars, but has suspended licenses registration for vehicles and bicycles until a regulatory decision to be issued in January.
The sources revealed that the Public Authority for Manport (PAM) began collecting a fee of KD500 as a financial guarantee for every worker registered as a delivery driver to be returned to the company owner in the event that the worker leaves their job or the company is closed.
The sources revealed to the daily that the license holders and the delivery order union intend to carry out a sit-in in the event that the regulatory decision is not issued, given that preventing licenses registration of vehicles and bicycles without a legal basis is considered a disruption of their interests and the interests of the businesses which employ them, especially restaurants. It indicated that there are 200 commercial licenses to deliver on demand for small projects.
The delivery licenses include about 30,000 licensed restaurants, in addition to home businesses, and the number of workers in each business ranges between 50 and 300 workers dependent on the ability of the owner to acquire a license and pay financial guarantees.
Recent meetings were held with leaders of government agencies concerned with looking into these licenses. There were requests by business owners to be permitted to register vehicles and bicycles and raise the numbers of licenses issued until a decision is passed on regulations.
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