As you may have probably heard, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) is about to begin its crackdown on non-compliant temporary license plates soon. By soon we supposedly meant this week, but the agency has just announced that it’ll defer implementation to December 31 later this year.
And by ‘non-compliant’ we mean plates that don’t adhere to the new guidelines that the LTO had just set. If you haven’t heard about that yet, we suggest you read up on it here, especially if you own a brand-new vehicle and still haven’t received your license plates.
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LTO chief Atty. Vigor Mendoza said that this postponement of implementation should not be an excuse for motorists to not claim their new plates from their respective dealerships if said plates are already available.
“We ask the motorists to claim and install their respective license plates as soon as they are available either in the car dealerships and replacement plates in our offices,” said Mendoza.
The agency shared that thousands of plates for four-wheeled vehicles—the LTO’s backlog on which has already been supposedly cleared—still remain unclaimed at dealerships. “There is no reason for these vehicle owners not to claim and install them in their vehicles,” Mendoza added.
Currently, the LTO says its backlog only consists of motorcycle license plates, which the agency hopes to address by June next year.
