Owners of new cars and motorcycles may have to make their own temporary plates in the wake of a looming shortage of license plates by June and July, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) said on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. CDNDigital READ:
“Based on the forecast of LTO, license plates will run out for motorcycles by June, and by July, [those] for motor vehicles will be depleted as well,” LTO chief Jose Arturo Tugade told reporters.
The plate numbers will then be verified by LTO officials by matching their file number with those in the vehicle’s certificate of registration, according to Tugade. Tugade blamed the possible shortage of license plate supply on the procurement process in the DOTr, the same reason he cited in the backlog of driver’s license cards earlier.“Because the project to purchase license plates reached more than P50 million, following the special order of the DOTr, they would be the ones to do the procurement of the plates,” he said.
“The DOTr has been fully informed of this situation because, again, since the budget for the procurement of license plates is P4.5 billion, it is the DOTr that is in charge of procuring these items,” he added. The temporary document would contain a unique QR code for law enforcers to authenticate and validate the receipt, and motorists would be required to show it or a picture of it in the event they are apprehended, Tugade said.
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