Land Transportation Office (LTO) extends the registration deadline for certain plates once again. This time, it applies not only to motor vehicles affected in the NCR+ bubble but to all vehicles nationwide. In the official Facebook page of the Land Transportation Office-Philippines, the agency has released a public advisory regarding the extended validity of registration […]
Motorcyclists waiting to get their license plates will need to wait longer it seems, as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has run into a major snag. The agency revealed that they are facing challenges with the millions of backlogs of official plate releases that have built up over the past few years, with the LTO […]
Motorists in Manila are aware by now that the Land Transportation Office does not have enough license plates to go around. So to combat this, motororists have taken to putting their conduction number in the front to identify their vehicles on the road. Since the only requirement so far has been to display the conduction […]
After months of facing a crisis where LTO has to issue driver’s licenses on paper due to a card shortage, the agency appears to have resolved the issue once again. LTO has started issuing driver’s license cards starting April 16, and the new batch of cards they have procured should be able to solve their […]
With the LTO in a mess right now, Sen. Grace Poe did not mince her words when she called out the agency for its “chaotic” Digitalization Program in a press statement. This is following the many issues that the LTO is facing including the resignation of then-chief Jose Arturo Tugade and the shortage of license […]
Jose Arturo Tugade experienced chaotic times in his stint as LTO Chief: despite his push to combat fixers, digitize transactions through the LTMS, and even offer free theoretical driving courses to student drivers, the LTO was faced with a plethora of issues. These include the shortage of motorcycle and car plates and the shortage of […]
To temporarily relieve the LTO of its problems regarding the dwindling supply of its license cards, the National Printing Office (NPO), the country’s government printer, has committed to producing 5 million driver’s license cards for the LTO within 60 days. This was confirmed by DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista to Philippine Star, saying that he had […]
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is not yet done with the license plate backlog issue. The agency has admitted that it hasn’t released a total of 11,514,050 license plates to their rightful owners. Valenzuela City 2nd District Rep. Eric Martinez, who sponsored the DOTr budget for 2023, blamed the budget cut. According to him, the transport agency had […]
The Philippine National Police (PNP) ordered the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) to intensify operations against vehicles without plates and those using illegal plates. The order was given by PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. after reports that vehicles without plates are being used for illegal activities. He ordered the HPG leadership and all concerned units to […]
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is still drowning in backlogs for the production of car and motorcycle license plates. Now, LTO is looking into asking the Congress for Php 6.8 billion worth of funding to help address the plate backlog issue. LTO officer-in-charge Romeo Vera Cruz said in a briefing on Wednesday that the facilities […]
In two consecutive posts on Facebook, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has extended the validity of all motor vehicle registration, driver’s license, student permit, and conductor’s license that are due this month of July. According to LTO, the extension for validity for both vehicle registration and driver’s license is in response to the rising COVID-19 cases […]
Through Memorandum Circular No. 2022-2327, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) has extended the registration deadline for motor vehicles with plate numbers ending in 5. The reason thereof, according to the agency, is the continuing enforcement of the nationwide community quarantine, as well as health and safety protocols due to the COVID – 19 pandemic. Therefore, those with […]