Articles about Rfid

Reloading at these locations will only be available until April 12, 2021

Do you traverse the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) often? Chances are, you're an RFID user yourself. If that's the case, then take note: the Easytrip reloading services at the Balintawak and Bocaue toll plazas will only be available until April

In case you’re wondering where to reload your RFIDs

Public service announcement for our fellow expressway users: Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) has shared with us that there are now more than 50,000 Easytrip reloading stations in Luzon."Reloading is made convenient with all these accessible establishments all over Metro

That number is expected to grow

It looks like plenty of motorists down south are buying into the shift from cash to RFID tags.According to the San Miguel Corporation (SMC), the number of vehicles equipped with Autosweep RFIDs now totals 2.7 million. For reference, the operator

A pretty slow week considering how the month had kicked off

It’s now only a matter of when the TRB starts implementing the new policy

The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) recently revealed that it is currently studying a new three-strike policy to penalize RFID users who try to pass through tollways with insufficient balances in their Autosweep or Easytrip accounts.Under this new system, motorists will

Too many things going on at the same time

Here's where we are so far in the implementation of the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act: By operation of the law, Republic Act No. 11229 already took effect on February 2, 2021, but the Department of Transportation (DOTr) has stressed

Make it a habit to always check your RFID load

Are you the kind of motorist who enters the tollway without checking your RFID load beforehand? If so, then you better take this seriously. The management of Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) and SMC Tollways, along with the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB),

The company is advising motorists to reload their Easytrip accounts beforehand

A public service announcement for all Easytrip RFID users: Easytrip Services Corporation has just announced that its Account Management System will undergo a system migration on January 30, 2021 from 12am to 12pm.What does this mean for us motorists? Well, during

Only the first 200 customers will be accommodated

Still haven't gotten an RFID for your car yet? Well, if it's an Easytrip tag you're still missing and you live in the metro, then check this out: Easytrip Services Corporation is offering RFIDs at SM Megamall until tomorrow.

The RFID saga continues

The entire RFID mess was clearly one of the country's biggest motoring issues in 2020. It feels like it's been one blunder after the other during this transition to 100% cashless transactions on all expressways.For months, motorists and tollway

See how the world of motoring has fared in the first few days of 2021

Have you gotten one yet?

Those of you who still haven't managed to get your hands on an Autosweep RFID tag will want to pay attention.SMC Tollways has announced that Autosweep RFID installation will be allowed for all car brands at select BMW dealerships until

In case you haven’t gotten your RFIDs yet

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has had its hands full lately. After partially opening the Skyway Stage 3 to the public, the company has now announced that it is setting up to shift to 100% cashless transactions along all its tollways come January

What a year

Who would have thought that 2020 would be the year we'd all stay at home? Nonetheless, it was far from being an uneventful year. We still saw a lot of fun and interesting images during the COVID-19 pandemic.We already

What if?

Depending on whether the glass in your head is half full or half empty, and whether or not one is referring to situations real or imagined, the mere mention of the words "what if" can generate any of a variety of responses-

2020 continues to throw us curveballs

It’s been a very, very long year

You've probably heard this dozens of times before already, but we'll say it again: It's been a long year. A lot of things happened throughout the course of 2020, from the beginning of January right until these last few

It’s going to take a while

Our country's shift to 100% cashless tollways is going anything but smoothly. We think the past few weeks have made this very, very apparent. A lot of kinks in the policy's implementation still need to be sorted out, and it

What’s your take on this?

With RFIDs still a hot topic these days, there's another related subject that's of particular interest to riders: toll fees.Right now, tollway-legal motorcycles (with engine displacements 400cc and above) are charged the same fees as light vehicles that

Uh-oh

Malacañang isn't happy with how the shift to cashless expressways is turning out so far.In a press conference held earlier today, December 17, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque relayed president Rodrigo Duterte's threat to sack officials of the Toll