Ex-LTFRB official tells drivers to avoid talking to passengers

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/10/2017

AVOID talking to your passengers. This was the advice of former LTFRB board member Ariel Inton Jr. to all public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers including Transport Network Vehicle Services (TNVS) drivers following a complaint from a lady…

MAO BA?

Editorial 06/05/2017

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…

PUJ drivers told: Give students fare discounts

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/03/2017

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)…

Erring drivers will still be apprehended in 2 cities

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/24/2017

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.…

Good news, bad news

Editorial 05/24/2017

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…

Drivers’ protest fails to disrupt public transport

Doris C. Bongcac, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/22/2017

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…

Habal drivers wary of fetching kids

Agnes Alpuerto, Norman V. Mendoza 05/21/2017

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…

Unhappy drivers

05/21/2017

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…

Poe panel OKs 5-year validity of driver’s license

AP, Inquirer.net 05/09/2017

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…

An ‘academy’ for drivers

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 04/08/2017

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…

Road rage: LTO begins probe into Lims, Nuñal driver’s licenses

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/28/2017

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…

Groups oppose city ordinance allowing traffic aide to confiscate driver’s license

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/28/2017

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…

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