Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has told food and parcel delivery companies that riders and drivers caught breaking traffic rules will have their motorcycle or car impounded for two months.
The warning came out of a meeting on Sunday 4 October between the ministry’s traffic and operations sector and representatives of the delivery companies. According to the ministry’s statement, traffic officers have been recording violations by some delivery drivers, and the law will now be applied to them.
What it means
If you deliver for a living, a single violation can take your bike or car off the road for two months, and your income with it. The statement did not list specific offences, so the safe reading is that any breach of the traffic rules counts.
If you run a delivery company, the ministry put the job of briefing riders and checking that they follow the rules squarely on you. It also said field enforcement will continue.
The meeting was chaired by Brigadier Ahmed Al-Azmi, head of the traffic and operations sector, with Brigadier Rashid Al-Hajeri, director general of the General Traffic Department, on the instructions of First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad Al-Yousef.
Photograph: a General Traffic Department card made by Kuwait One over a blurred photograph of a Kuwaiti number plate from Wikimedia Commons, by Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Source: Ministry of Interior statement on the 4 October 2026 meeting, as reported by Al-Anba on 6 October 2026.
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