The LTFRB faces a population of runaway ‘colorum’ vehicles
By Aida Sevilla MendozaIt’s the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, but it has no police powers. So how can the LTFRB enforce franchise-related laws?
It’s the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, but it has no police powers. So how can the LTFRB enforce franchise-related laws?
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Chair Jaime D. Jacob has accepted the invitation of the Automobile Association Philippines (AAP) to be the guest of honor at the second Usapan AAP on Oct. 24, 2012.
The lawyer for three bus companies opposed to the sale of the defunct Pantranco North Express Inc.’s franchises described on Friday as “premature and irresponsible” the claim of the shuttered bus firm’s workers that the Court of Appeals had sustained the validity of the contested franchises.
The revival of 489 expired franchises of the long defunct Pantranco bus company was suspended by Transportation and Communications Secretary Mar Roxas on Friday.
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has denied petitions by provincial and Metro Manila bus operators for an increase in minimum fares, citing the steady decline in diesel fuel prices.
The Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has referred to its Legal Division for investigation of a provincial bus firm, which may have committed “specific violations of franchise” in its operations during the Holy Week and vowed to file charges against the company “accordingly”.
Taxpayers stand to save billions of pesos in hardware and software startup costs if the government opts to renew the information technology contract between Stradcom Corp., on one hand, and the Land Transportaton Office (LTO) and the Land Transportation Franchise Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on the other.
