OUT WITH THE OLD While the militant leftist transport group Pagkakaisa ng Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) rallied against the government’s purported plan to phase out passenger jeepney units aged 15 years old and…
WITH classes set to start on Monday, public utility jeepney (PUJ) drivers are reminded to continue giving the 20 percent fare discount to students. Director Ahmed Cuizon, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7)…
MANDAUE, CEBU CITIES HAVE SIMILAR ORDINANCE Despite the deferment of implementation of the new Anti-Distracted Driving Act, drivers found using cellphones and other gadgets while driving will still be apprehended in the cities of Mandaue and Cebu.…
There is some good news and bad news for habal-habal (motorcycle-for-hire) drivers in Metro Cebu. The bad news is a new law will prohibit habal-habal and motorcycle drivers from fetching children 10 years old and below as…
Public transportation in Metro Cebu area was unaffected by a transport caravan organized by Pagkakaisa ng Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) – Cebu to protest plans to phase out public utility vehicles 15 years…
Emmanuel Capalac, a motorcyle-for-hire (habal-habal) driver, earns more than P800 a day driving students and parents with their kids to their destinations. But a new law that prohibits motorcycle drivers from transporting children below 10 years old…
Today’s scheduled transport strike by a militant leftist transport group comes not coincidentally on the heels of an ongoing public consultation over the looming Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project to be implemented in Cebu City. The timing…
After just one hearing on Tuesday, the Senate committee on public services chaired by Senator Grace Poe approved a measure extending the validity of all driver’s licenses from three years to five years. “There is no opposition…
Not many know that the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is also in the business of training and retraining public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers to become better in their profession. The initiative is called “Driver’s…
THE Land Transportation Office in Central Visayas (LTO-7) is set to issue today separate show cause orders to David Lim Sr., his son David Lim Jr. and to Cebuano nurse Ephraim Montalbo Nuñal. “Once they received this…
SEVERAL groups expressed their opposition to a proposed ordinance in Cebu City that will authorize the confiscation of the driver’s license of motorists found to be violating traffic laws and regulations in the city. In a public…
TWO truck drivers survived in two separate road accidents that occurred in Barangay Poog, Toledo City last Saturday and yesterday. PO2 Nicanor Goc-ong of the Toledo City police’s traffic division said the first incident involved truck driver…
