LTO Wants to Expand Online Registration to PUVs

As LTO continues to combat fixers and red tape, the government agency is working to expand its online registration to PUVs as well. In the current iteration of the LTMS, users can apply for a driver’s license renewal and renew the registration of their vehicles–provided that their vehicle’s registration is already registered with the user’s […]

Jose Arturo Tugade is New LTO Chief

LTO to Shorten Exams for Driver’s License Application

Aside from implementing a maximum prescribed rate for theoretical and practical driving lessons–and even offering FREE courses to student drivers, the LTO is also looking at ways to shorten and simplify the exams for driver’s license applicants as well. LTO chief Jay Arthur Tugade said in a statement yesterday (May 5) that he formed a […]

eGov Super App Aims to Make Government Transactions More Accessible

As most government agencies are transitioning into digitizing their services (LTO, for one, is making a number of its transactions available through its LTMS portal), there are challenges to this transition. One of these challenges is how to simplify these transactions for the common Filipino–for the record, there are 175 government websites where they can […]

HONOR Magic5 Series, Magic Vs to Go Global at MWC 2023

HONOR confirms that it will unveil the Magic5 series–and make the Magic Vs official globally–at MWC 2023. With MWC 2023 happening in a few weeks’ time, HONOR has confirmed that the Magic5 series and the Magic Vs foldable will have a global unveiling on February 27. This follows after a cheeky teaser taking jabs at […]

LTO: No More Driver’s License Backlog Next Year

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has been having trouble printing driver’s licenses throughout the year. According to LTO, they will start resolving the driver’s license backlog starting next year. As per LTO chief Arturo Tugade, they are just waiting for the replacement of defective parts of the laser engravers that caused the backlog in driver’s […]

LIST: LTO Offices That Can’t Print Driver’s Licenses

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has advised the public that some of its offices are currently unable to produce driver’s licenses. According to LTO chief Jose Arturo Tugade, some LTO districts and extension offices have defective laser engraving machines. And so, he told the public to proceed to LTO offices with working machines instead. “Nais naming […]

Fixer Nakikinabang: LTO Eyeing Removal of Online Exam For License Renewal

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has clarified that it has no plans of abolishing its online portal known as the the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS). However, LTO said it is looking to remove the online exam required for driver’s license renewal. According to LTO chief Teofilo Guadiz, “fixers” are using the online Comprehensive Driver’s […]

Jose Arturo Tugade is New LTO Chief

LTO Clarifies Statement on Students Coming to School Early

Remember a few days ago, when the LTO made an unusual suggestion, saying that students should not come to class too early? That statement of theirs was met with so much criticism everywhere that the LTO made a statement about it. Posted on their official Facebook page,  LTO said that the statement was taken out of […]

New LTO System Causing Massive Delays

Just like other LTO offices, the Cebu City Licensing Office has reported a massive drop in their daily transactions, blaming the new IT system. According to Joel Maloloy-on, head of the Land Transportation (LTO)-Cebu City District Office, the number of transactions is down from 1,200 to 400. He attributed the problem to their new IT system, […]

Pimentel Questions LTO for Its P3.15-B Deal With Unreliable Service Providers

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III wants the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to explain why it paid Php 3.15 billion to IT service providers for a faulty online licensing and registration portal. According to Senator Pimentel, LTO has fully paid four IT companies despite an “incomplete turnover of deliverables,” which is a  “clear violation […]

LTO Revives Vanity Plates: Price, Requirements

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has issued Memorandum Circular No. 2022-2335, allowing motorists to request for special or vanity plates once again. Read on to find out the price and requirements for vanity plates in the Philippines. The memorandum, known as Optional Motor Vehicles Special Plates, is only applicable to cars, SUVs, AUVs, pick-ups, commuter […]

LTO Asks P6.8B for License Plate Backlog Funding

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 […]