The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Wednesday instructed the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to temporarily suspend the implementation of mandatory Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Center (PMVIC) testing on registered vehicles.
This is as long as the issue of Geographic Areas of Responsibility (GAOR) is not resolved.
GAOR policy is that the geographical location of the PMVIC should be close to the LTO office where the audit will be identified.
According to LTO Assistant Sec Edgar Galvante, the vehicle inspection ensures that the registered vehicles are safe or road-worthy for accident prevention.
“Ang ginagawa ng PMVIC ‘yung complete inspection ng performance ng sasakyan, break, steering, smoking and emission so forth and so on. Kaya kung pasado sya dun, iko-consider ‘yun for renewal of registration,” he said.
But due to the pandemic, which limits the movement and gathering of people, PMVIC was temporarily suspended from the LTO and returned to the previous practice of manual or visual vehicle inspection done at the LTO office.
But the vehicle must also pass the emission test.
Mandatory vehicle inspection suspended by DOTr
“Hindi muna katulad ng una na inisyu nila na mandatory ang PMVIC kaya babalik sa dating situation na both PETC result at tsaka ‘yung MVIC result, ire-recognize ‘yan ng LTO,” said Galvante.
According to Galvante, the queue at the LTO offices is getting longer because the inspection is sometimes manual due to the lack of testing equipment. So it is necessary to resolve the issue with GAOR.
Sen. Grace Poe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Sevices, first filed the complaint, in which she shared the long queue of vehicle registrants due to inspections that had to be passed.
She also said that the inspection cost is high, which is unfair now that there is a pandemic.
According to a statement released by the president of Lawyers for Commuters Safety and Protection (LCSP) Ariel Inton, it is unacceptable that after more than two weeks of torture by GAOR implementation, motorists will withdraw it.
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