Cars with no plates face immediate impounding

[Monseratto]

Posted: 1:27 AM (Manila Time) | Apr. 15, 2004
By Clarissa Batino and Margaux Ortiz
Inquirer News Service

STARTING Thursday, vehicles with no license plates should be kept off Metro Manila's roads or these would be impounded and their owners slapped stiff penalties.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Traffic Operations Center Director Angelito Vergel de Dios, issued this warning yesterday as grace period for owners to acquire authorized license plates for their vehicles ended today (Thursday).



"If their vehicles don't have proper license plates, then they should not use it," Vergel de Dios stressed.

Motorists driving plateless vehicles will be apprehended and immediately fined 500 pesos for violation of the "no plate, no travel" policy.

Their vehicles will then be impounded with no questions asked.

Impounded vehicles will only be released after the payment of a 5,000-peso fine and a storage fee equivalent to 40 pesos for every day that the vehicle remains unclaimed.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Wednesday vowed that securing plates would take only between four and seven days for locally assembled vehicles and 14 days for imported ones.

LTO chief Anneli Lontoc said the LTO would issue a set of guidelines today to clarify the parameters of the no plate, no travel policy.

Lontoc said it would take no longer than 14 days for an imported vehicle to register and secure a plate from the time it would land in the Philippines. Previously, it took three to four months.

"As for locally-assembled vehicles, the owners could get their plates even in four days. But we agreed to give a seven-day permit for allowance," said the LTO chief.

The LTO chief explained that vehicles to be delivered to the owner would be allowed to travel on the basis of the conduction sticker. But once the vehicle has reached the owner, the conduction sticker is no longer valid.

Instead, the owner has to use a seven-day conduction permit that the LTO has issued to the car dealer. During the seven-day period, the vehicle would only be allowed to travel to complete the registration.

"If registration is not completed within the seven day period, we hope that the owner would just use other means of transport to finish the documentation. Anyway, we doubt if it would take the LTO more than seven days to register," said Lontoc.

The LTO assured car owners that it has an ample supply of license plates, although motorists no longer have the luxury of choosing even the ending of the plates to suit their preferred color-coding day.

The LTO also said it had forwarded to traffic enforcers, as well as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a list of commemorative plates it had authorized.

Unauthorized commemorative plates or ones that have been circulating for more than a year could no longer be used.

The LTO stopped issuing vanity plates in September 2003 as it had become a source of corruption.

[xpac]

kainis, di ko tuloy magamit bago namin sasakyan wala pa rin plaka more than a week na tinamaan kasi ng holy week kaya siguro na-delay.

[Ungas]

That should clarify the commemorative plate issues. :D

[Poops]

4 days for the plate? it's almost 4 weeks, wala pa rin

[Monseratto]

Makakabili pa ba ng 777 or 888 na plaka sa LTO? Baka mabigyan pa ng 666 kung hinde ka masuwerte.

[boybi]

since Anneli Lontoc became LTO chief, na stop na ang pagissue ng mga personalized plates. yung mga triple numbers ay swertehan nalang kung meron maligaw sa LTO office nyo.

[kiper]

ay..wala ng personalized plates..fanget.

[Aston Martin]

Sir UNGAS,

What do you mean?

Meron bang nakaka alam kung ksama sa LTO authorized comm plates yung AlayLakad? Expiration nito is supposedly sa Nov04 pa.

[1D4LV]

aston martin, yes, ang alam ko kasama yung alay lakad plates....


bakit kamo? walang sumisita sa akin eh. hehehehe.


and correct, it is valid up to november 2004.

[Ungas]

Aston Martin::: It simply implies to all registered comm plates that have not expired yet. Kaya pwede pa natin gamitin ito hanggang sa mag expire. All legal comm plates should have stickers and supporting documents such as comm plate certificate indicating what vehicle it is registered to.

[Aston Martin]

Thanks for clarifying Boss Ungas:-)

But guys, this is based on my actual experience.

Last Sat (1am na ng Sun), I was apprehended by 2 policemen along Quirino Hway malapi sa Victora Court (hehehe). Sabi nila bawal na daw yung AlayLakad plate ko based on the new LTO memo. I tried to expalin to them na valid pa naman yung comm plate ko and even pointed the sticker on my windshield. Pero accdg sa kanila, di daw kasama sa authorised LTO plates yung Alaya Lakad. Gusto ko sama humingi ng listahan as proof kaso medyo nakainom din ako noon kaya minabuti ko na lang na makiupsap instead of arguing. Mahirap na eh baka makasuhan ako ng driving under the influence.
Fortunately, napaki usapan ko naman. Pero hind talaga ako pinaalis hanggang di ko tinatanggal yung comm plate. So I just obligued.

But this morn, binalik ko ulit kasi coding ako e. So far wala namang sumita sa akin kaninang umaga.

Im just hoping na hindi totoo yung cnabi nung parak last Sat and that naging mainit lang yung oto+plaka during that tym kasi madaling araw na.

It will indeed be very helpful if we can get that LIST of LTO authorized comm plates.

[cubone143]

Thanks for clarifying Boss Ungas:-)

But guys, this is based on my actual experience.

Last Sat (1am na ng Sun), I was apprehended by 2 policemen along Quirino Hway malapi sa Victora Court (hehehe). Sabi nila bawal na daw yung AlayLakad plate ko based on the new LTO memo. I tried to expalin to them na valid pa naman yung comm plate ko and even pointed the sticker on my windshield. Pero accdg sa kanila, di daw kasama sa authorised LTO plates yung Alaya Lakad. Gusto ko sama humingi ng listahan as proof kaso medyo nakainom din ako noon kaya minabuti ko na lang na makiupsap instead of arguing. Mahirap na eh baka makasuhan ako ng driving under the influence.
Fortunately, napaki usapan ko naman. Pero hind talaga ako pinaalis hanggang di ko tinatanggal yung comm plate. So I just obligued.

But this morn, binalik ko ulit kasi coding ako e. So far wala namang sumita sa akin kaninang umaga.

Im just hoping na hindi totoo yung cnabi nung parak last Sat and that naging mainit lang yung oto+plaka during that tym kasi madaling araw na.

It will indeed be very helpful if we can get that LIST of LTO authorized comm plates.

WELL DUDE LETS JUST REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE EITHER MOBILE POLICEMAN OR TRAFIC POLICE. NOW THEY HAVE NO JURISDICTION IN IMPLEMENTING SOMETHING IF THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEYR IMPLEMENTING. AND ALSO THEY JUST WANT TO EXTORT MONEY FROM YOU WHICH THEY SUCCEED, BUT FIRST YOU SHOULD ASK THEM A MEMO WHICH THEY HAVE TO SHOW YOU AS PROOF THAT THEY ARE IMPLEMENTING THAT PARTICULAR LAW IF THEY DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO SHOW YOU DONT NEED TO BELIEVE THEM WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS CALL SOMEONE FROM THAT AREA A POLICEMAN OR YOUR LAWYER. JUST AN ADVISE

[nugundam93]

WELL DUDE LETS JUST REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE EITHER MOBILE POLICEMAN OR TRAFIC POLICE. NOW THEY HAVE NO JURISDICTION IN IMPLEMENTING SOMETHING IF THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEYR IMPLEMENTING. AND ALSO THEY JUST WANT TO EXTORT MONEY FROM YOU WHICH THEY SUCCEED, BUT FIRST YOU SHOULD ASK THEM A MEMO WHICH THEY HAVE TO SHOW YOU AS PROOF THAT THEY ARE IMPLEMENTING THAT PARTICULAR LAW IF THEY DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO SHOW YOU DONT NEED TO BELIEVE THEM WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS CALL SOMEONE FROM THAT AREA A POLICEMAN OR YOUR LAWYER. JUST AN ADVISE

MEGAAAAAAAAA BUMPPPPPU!!!!! :lol: (from 2 years ago).

iirc, published even sa broadsheets yung list of plates no longer allowed, kasama yung alay lakad.

[BoEinG_747]

sir ,

hanep sa hukay ng thread ..

question lang po ,bakit po naka ALL CAPS kayo

wala na yata bagong comm.plates .ang huling nag karoon iyon sa sea games at ang mahal pa

[theveed]

I think totally tama ang law na to... If there's anyone that new car owners should complain to, it should be your dealer.

[xpac]

Posted: 1:27 AM (Manila Time) | Apr. 15, 2004
By Clarissa Batino and Margaux Ortiz


The LTO chief explained that vehicles to be delivered to the owner would be allowed to travel on the basis of the conduction sticker. But once the vehicle has reached the owner, the conduction sticker is no longer valid.

Instead, the owner has to use a seven-day conduction permit that the LTO has issued to the car dealer. During the seven-day period, the vehicle would only be allowed to travel to complete the registration.

mga ser, implemented pa ba 'to? 2004 pa kasi yun memo.

[mazdamazda]

Implemented pa rin yan.

[xpac]

ok ser m2 salamat. 1 na lang pow, kasama ba sa 7 days countdown yun sat. and sun? pwede ko ba gamitin yun sasakyan during sat. and sun?

[mazdamazda]

most likely calendar day yung 7 day countdown.

[ghosthunter]

Posted: 1:27 AM (Manila Time) | Apr. 15, 2004
By Clarissa Batino and Margaux Ortiz
Inquirer News Service

STARTING Thursday, vehicles with no license plates should be kept off Metro Manila's roads or these would be impounded and their owners slapped stiff penalties.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Traffic Operations Center Director Angelito Vergel de Dios, issued this warning yesterday as grace period for owners to acquire authorized license plates for their vehicles ended today (Thursday).



"If their vehicles don't have proper license plates, then they should not use it," Vergel de Dios stressed.

Motorists driving plateless vehicles will be apprehended and immediately fined 500 pesos for violation of the "no plate, no travel" policy.

Their vehicles will then be impounded with no questions asked.

Impounded vehicles will only be released after the payment of a 5,000-peso fine and a storage fee equivalent to 40 pesos for every day that the vehicle remains unclaimed.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Wednesday vowed that securing plates would take only between four and seven days for locally assembled vehicles and 14 days for imported ones.

LTO chief Anneli Lontoc said the LTO would issue a set of guidelines today to clarify the parameters of the no plate, no travel policy.

Lontoc said it would take no longer than 14 days for an imported vehicle to register and secure a plate from the time it would land in the Philippines. Previously, it took three to four months.

"As for locally-assembled vehicles, the owners could get their plates even in four days. But we agreed to give a seven-day permit for allowance," said the LTO chief.

My mom's new civic arrived two and a half weeks ago. Still no plates. Four days? maybe with some bribe money or if you are politically connected but for just ordinary mortals, a month or more is probably closer to the truth.