At least 21 dead as bus falls off Skyway

[Quint]

Kada rehistro kasi dapat, may 20- or 50-point vehicle inspection. Tapos gawin mo every 3 years din. Pag sablay sa emission, sablay sa safety yan lahat, dapat on the spot, may assessment for (stiff) penalties.

Tapos, kung may aksidenteng ganyan, dapat may kasamang demerit yung corresponding officer(s)-in-charge of that (bus) company. Deretso sa 201 file para damay lahat.

[Syuryuken]

madami akong nakikitang bus/trailer truck with dubious tires, a few times me bitak bitak na sa sidewall. Madami rin gumagamit ng cheap China brand tires but i haven't seen them lately.

marami pa ring nagkalat na china tires lalo na sa mga pumapasadang van dito sa entire cagayan valley tapos tumatakbo pa ng 100-110 kph * full load

[CLAVEL3699]

marami pa ring nagkalat na china tires lalo na sa mga pumapasadang van dito sa entire cagayan valley tapos tumatakbo pa ng 100-110 kph * full load

we use china tires VEE Rubber madali sya mapudpod kaya bumalik kami sa dati Run Way kahit china din pero mas maganda ang quality.

Hindi kami recapped...pagpudpod tapon na.

[lowslowbenz]

We use Michelin for our trucks, both for drive and steer applications. Very expensive but worth every peso spent. The worn tyres, we have them recapped or regrooved, and used for trailer duty. After 2 recap cycles, we dispose them.

[Monseratto]

This means the annual re-registration/safety check by the LTFRB and LTO is a BIG FAIL...

All but 1 Don Mariano buses fail first wave of road-worthiness tests - LTO
By: Likha Cuevas-Miel, Jaime Sinapit and Dexter San Pedro, InterAksyon.com
December 17, 2013 1:45 PM


(UPDATED - 3:29 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines -- All but one of the 23 Don Mariano Bus Lines units covered by the first wave of road-worthiness tests conducted by regulators failed the examinations Tuesday, a day after one such bus crashed through the Skyway railing in Paranaque City and fell to the service road below, killing 18 and leaving 20 others injured.

This developed as Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Chairman Winston Ginez said the board is not discounting the possibility of cancelling altogether the franchise of the Don Mariano Transit Corporation over Monday’s deadly fall. The ill-fated bus also hit a closed van, the drive of which died instantly.

The bus driver, Carmelo Calatcat, is still in critical condition in a hospital.

On Tuesday, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) conducted a battery of tests on the first batch of the Don Mariano fleet of 78 buses, which the LTFRB ordered grounded for 30 days hours after Monday’s tragedy.

Joel A. Donato, LTO's chief inspector, told InterAksyon.com that most defects found in the company's buses were: broken headlights, signal lights and tail lights; worn out tires; broken windshields; broken wipers; and missing wheel studs.

Donato said the LTO gets to inspect these vehicles only once a year when the management applies for registration.

This is complemented by inspections conducted by the agency in bus companies' own garages before commuters start their exodus back to their home provinces before the Holy Week, All Saints" Day, school semestral breaks and Christmas Holidays.

The LTO also deputizes several government agencies on the road to conduct inspection of public utility buses such as the PNP-TMG, road officers of SLEX & NLEX and other motorways, and the MMDA.

LTO inspections are only good for 60 days.

Earlier, Ginez said the board immediately stopped the fielding of 78 more Don Mariano buses for 30 days shortly after the incident.

The LTFRB has been meticulously assessing the viability of the company as bus operator in Metro Manila considering that it has already records of accidents such as in July 2012 that injured several passengers and in August 2012 that killed a motorcycle rider, according to Ginez.

He said they have set a hearing of the Don Mariano Transit Corp’s. case on January 7, 2014.

[shadow]

pareho lang sila sa mga jeepney operator ayaw bumili ng bagong gulong

puro kalbo din mga gulong ng PUJ

gusto kumita ayaw gumastos

Tapos humihingi ng fare increase kahit na bumababa price ng fuel, dahil daw sa gastos nila sa phantom maintenance na ginagawa nila


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[IMm29]

Ok, so they suspended the bus company for 30 days. And when the public is not watching during those 30 days, balik pasada na naman?! I-cancel na nila! This isn't the first accident. Dapat revoked outright na yan.

[shadow]

no, you got it all wrong...30 days preventive suspension is not a penalty but revocation of franchise is.

so don't mistake suspension for a penalty

[holdencaulfield]

sabi ni erwin tulfo, may byumahe pa daw kaninang 3am na don mariano. dumaan sa harap ng patrol ng TV5.

LTFRB at LTO sangkot din kayo dito mga g*go't inutil!

[Calistro]

Heheh band aid lang ginagawa ng gobyerno diyan. Pag nasisita dun lang gagawan ng paraan.

Pag malamig na at tapos na ang bayaran, wala na pipigil diyan bumiyahe. O kaya palit ng pangalan. Sa Don Mariano din ba un Admiral transport? Kapintura nila eh. Parang MGE at Green Taxi?

[170kphlang]

This means the annual re-registration/safety check by the LTFRB and LTO is a BIG FAIL...

as usual may kailangan muna magbuwis ng or ng mga buhay bago umaksyon tungkol sa road worthiness.. mga pulpol talaga..

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[falken]

Don Mariano bus drivers work 19 hours a day
By Dharel Placido, ABS-CBNnews.com
Posted at 12/17/2013 1:01 PM | Updated as of 12/17/2013 6:51 PM

MANILA – Bus drivers of Don Mariano Transit Corp. work up to 19 hours a day to reach their daily "boundary" of P12,500, so they can have enough money to bring home to their families.

Speaking to radio dzMM, an unidentified Don Mariano bus driver said he is required to earn P12,500 per day, 10% of which goes to him.

"Alis kami dito ng alas-4 ng madaling araw, kasi Pacita ang byahe namin. Kailangan mabuo namin iyun mga bandang alas-10 ng gabi, kasi gagarahe na kami alas-11… Pagdating sa Pacita, pahinga ng sandali, balik na naman, kakain sa garahe, tapos babalik ulit. Mga isang oras, kalahating oras ang pahinga. Sa akin lang sanay na sanay na ako," the driver said.

"Yung P12,500 na yun, may P1,250 kami doon. Tapos yung kaltas, mga P200 mahigit, may matitira sa amin mga P900, tapos pagkain, kaya P700 [ang naiuuwi] kapag quota lang kami."

The driver said it would be better if the drivers receive regular salaries instead of commissions.

"Gusto namin kasi trabaho ang hanap namin talaga eh. Mas maganda iyung arawan para wala kang hinahabol na oras," he said.

Another driver, meanwhile, said they sometimes resort to doing more trips during a slow day just to reach the earnings quota. He added that they consume energy drinks or coffee to get through the day.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has imposed a 30-day preventive suspension for all of Don Mariano Transit Corp.'s 78 units after one of their buses fell off the Skyway in Paranaque City on Monday, killing 18 people.

The suspension leaves the company's bus drivers, conductors and other employees without sources of income for the Christmas season.

Skyway officials earlier blamed the Don Mariano bus driver for speeding on the elevated highway, noting that the bus was travelling at 120kph before the accident.

They also noted that the bus unit already had worn-out tires.

– report from Johnson Manabat, dzMM

Don Mariano bus drivers work 19 hours a day | ABS-CBN News

[BratPAQ]

i dpubt ma-i-implement yang salary base sa mga bus driver. malaking mawawala sa kita ng mga operator. eh sa pinas pa handa isugal ng mga tao buhay nila para sa kita.

sabi ni erwin tulfo, may byumahe pa daw kaninang 3am na don mariano. dumaan sa harap ng patrol ng TV5.

LTFRB at LTO sangkot din kayo dito mga g*go't inutil!

syempre may padulasan dyan, kahit ba yearly lang ang inspection napaka imposible naman na lahat ng bus nila pumasa during registration then before the year end ALL BUT ONE failed the inspection.

sana asikasuhin ito ni pnoy, sana may masampolan ng kulong na taga LTFRB

[Calistro]

Kung suwelduhan un mga bus driver, pa petik petik nalang yan mga yan heheh.

Pero kawawa rin, ang liit ng sahod ng driver.

[ZENMasterTYL]

ipagbawal na rin mga bus sa mga elevated roads para wala nang mahuhulog na bus

[e2romo]

Maglalabas raw ng new requirement for all PUV, required na sila maglagay ng speed limiter. Ang tagal nang may ganitong speed limiter sa Singapore, ngayon lang nila naisip require dito.

Malamang, tulad ng lahat ng traffic violations sa atin, kotong lang ang parusa ng mahuhuling lalabag.

Everyday lantaran mga violations ng bus sa EDSA pero walang nahuhuli, nakapagsuhol na kasi sa mga kinauukulan.

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[falken]

Maglalabas raw ng new requirement for all PUV, required na sila maglagay ng speed limiter. Ang tagal nang may ganitong speed limiter sa Singapore, ngayon lang nila naisip require dito.

Malamang, tulad ng lahat ng traffic violations sa atin, kotong lang ang parusa ng mahuhuling lalabag.

Everyday lantaran mga violations ng bus sa EDSA pero walang nahuhuli, nakapagsuhol na kasi sa mga kinauukulan.

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Reactive talaga dito sa atin. Kailangan may mamatay muna bago kikilos. Dapat mawala na yung puwede na yan at bahala na attitude.

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[macsd]

they should BAN all trucks & buses from using skyway

[badkuk]

saw DZMM before coming in for work...Noli de Castro was saying na baka me problema daw ang design ng Skyway, pati ng C-5.

While i still think driver stupidity and not road design is to blame for this incident, hindi ba talaga maiwasan na magkaron ng puddles sa roads? Is it at all possible to make it perfectly level, or design it in such a way that water sheers to the sides and to the drains?

[greenlyt]

they should BAN all trucks & buses from using skyway

bawal talaga mga trucks sa skyway except for the small ones yun mga L300 type lang ata pwde, kaya nga pag lifted na truck ban sa gabi kahit maluwag sa baba nag skyway na lang ako.

OT: may rehab session ako kagabi sa Paranaque Doctors Hosp. nandun pa ata yun driver ng bus, gusto ko puntahan sa ICU tapos kunwari na sagi/natanggal ko yun power ng life support system niya