LTO: Stop overloading or face penalties
PUB-PUJ-TRICYCLE DRIVERS WARNED
THE district office of the Land Transportation Office warned drivers and operators of public utility vehicles, including tricycles, of their practice of overloading their units with passengers.
Eric Suriben, LTO District Office chief said, there is an existing law that specifies weight and load limits for public utilities and the corresponding penalties and his office will begin to strictly enforce it.
He said there have been many road accidents that involved overloaded vehicles because both operators/drivers and passengers ignore the safety standards on loads set by law.
Suriben urged local government units to adopt an ordinance to complement the national law in order to intensify the campaign against overloading of passengers that is becoming a regular cause of accidents and tragedies.
Meanwhile, in the absence of local ordinance, LTO will implement the transportation code of the Philippines to apprehend violators, Suriben said.
He advised the riding public not to insist on boarding vehicles that are already full for their own safety.
He also advised commuters to always ask a ticket from commuter buses for their own protection in case of accidents.
LTO has monitored that most of the mini buses plying Camiling-Dagupan route are not issuing tickets to their passengers even as he warned commuter buses that don’t grant students and senior citizens the 20% discount due them. (Nora Dominguez)
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