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Sunday, May 11, 2014

LTFRB suspends 15 buses of Rural Transit Management, Inc.





PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, May 9 (PNA) -– The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has placed on a 30-day preventive suspension 15 units of the Rural Transit Management, Incorporated (RTMI).

The RTMI owns and operates a fleet of buses plying from this city to as far as Cagayan de Oro City and Ozamis City via the cities of Pagadian and Dipolog.

LTFRB Provincial Head Swilbery Baybayan said Friday that the suspension order issued by the Board was effective Thursday, May 8.

Baybayan said the 15 suspended units are among the buses of RTMI that ply the Zamboanga City-Cagayan de Oro City via Pagadian City route and vice-versa.

The preventive suspension order came 11 days after the LTFRB discovered that one of RTMI’s buses which figured in an accident was operating without a franchise.



The accident which took place last April 27 in Barangay Anonang, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur resulted in the death of six people, including a three-month old baby, and injured 16 others.

Aside from franchise, LTFRB Regional Director Abdulgafar Mohammad disclosed in an earlier interview that the bus involved in the accident does not have Official Receipt (OR) as well as Certificate of Registration (CR).

Baybayan said the LTFRB has given the RTMI 30 days to present the 15 suspended buses for motor vehicle inspection before the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

Baybayan said the RTMI was also given 72 hours to submit a show cause why their Certificate of Public Convenience should not be suspended, cancelled or revoked.

He said the Board is sending a team to confiscate the for-hire plates of the suspended buses. (PNA)
LAP/TPGJR/HIROHITO D. CADION/UTB

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