By Pia Quinto
A SENIOR member of the Minority Bloc in the House of Representatives on Tuesday scored officials of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for continuing to force vehicle owners to renew their annual car registration to purchase new license plates.
In a statement, Nationalist People’s Coalition Rep. Rodolfo Albano III of Isabela, in a statement, said the Commission on Audit issued an order to LTO to stop payment for the new car plates to its foreign manufacturer because of serious bidding and contract violations.
He said the LTO must discontinue its P3.8-billion new vehicle plates measure, saying the unsettled balance of unregistered vehicles must be allowed to renew the registration using the former system, where the owners will only have to pay for registration receipt and stickers.
“A [great] number of vehicle owners will be saved from the abuse of the dubious and illegal multibillion-peso ‘milk and bilk’ racket of the LTO,” Albano said.
The legislator added that current vehicle plates are still serviceable and usable in against the forced purchase of new ones. This illegal program may also result in delayed delivery of the new car plates by a supposed “favored contractor” who manufactures this item, Albano said.
Albano slammed the LTO for pushing this program that resulted in having the new vehicle license plates manufactured abroad by Power Plates Development Concepts Inc. and J. Knieriem BV Goes (JKG) when those vehicle plates could be competently produced locally.
“For decades the LTO has been able to provide locally manufactured car plates with sufficient security features and durable materials, as evidenced by millions of still usable and serviceable car plates still in use today,” Albano said.
Albano said the bar code of the much recommended car plates are virtually useless and had been used to prop up and justify the rotten new car plates racket.
“The bar codes are totally useless,” said Albano, adding that, the “LTO does not have bar code readers and these codes do not contain any information about the vehicle owner. Police agencies and traffic enforcers also do not have any bar code readers.”
Albano also noted mounting complaints on the quality and durability of the new car plates reported by the media which revealed these new plates deformed when vehicle owners had to travel over flooded streets.
“One motorist complained how his new license plates bent as he waded through knee-high floods in Quezon City, saying that the water bouncing back from the radiator was enough to bend the plates, which he says never happened to his old plates,” Albano said.
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Albano is right. I had to pay for a new plate when I renewed in January. Guess what? I paid 7 months ago and still no plate.
Cong.Albano III of Isabela I salute you. Banat congressman. Grabe ang pinagkakaperahan diayn sa LTO. Kung ayaw nilang maniwala, subukan daw ng LTO-ong matino na empliyado or kahit ang Bitag na magpa-apply sila ng isang tao na kunwari mag-apply ng DRIVER’S LICENSE. kahit sa saang probinsya o ciudad, I bet basta nagbigay ka ng lagay, answers questioner ay copyahin mo na lang dahil bibigyan ka ng taga LTO.Bagamat ang sinasabi kong hindi lahat, pero karamihan. Ito ang pinaka-simpleng kurakot diyan.
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I am very disappointed with how lousy the LTO is being managed.Why is there a need for the senate and congress to point out the uselessness of the new plates. Can’t the LTO itself do a proper evaluation? I will answer my own question. Greed makes people do stupid things.