The Land Transportation Office will fully implement the law on the use of early warning devices, or EWDs, starting next month pursuant to the memorandum from its central office. Alberta Janine Lawas, chief of the LTO District Office in Bais City, Negros Oriental, yesterday said that before the full implementation of the law on EWDs, there will be a massive information and dissemination campaign to allow motorists to acquire these accessories immediately. Assistant Secretary Virginia Torres of the LTO issued Memorandum VPT 2013-1762 dated May 20, 2013, on the revised rules on the installation of EWDs as earlier stipulated under Republic Act 4136, or the Land Transportation Act of the Philippines. Lawas said failure to equip a four-wheeled motor vehicle with a pair of EWDs is basis for the apprehension of the driver by LTO personnel or its deputized agents, especially during roadside inspections. Under the revised rules, the LTO district offices are no longer allowed to renew the registration or issue a new one unless the vehicle owner can present a pair of prescribed EWDs. The EWDs must conform to LTO standards and specifications, and must be presented for inspection and issuance of LTO stickers with duly-assigned serial numbers. If not, this will be a ground for denial of registration of a motor vehicle, Lawas added. EWDs are triangular accessories used when a vehicle is stalled, especially along national roads. The LTO standards include a pair of either orange, or yellow and black EWDs, that shall be placed in the front and back of the stalled vehicle, respectively, to warn other motorists of the distressed vehicle. The EWDs must also be reflectorized, collapsible, and with a dimension of at least 40-cm long and 5-cm wide, Lawas said. She said the penalty for failure to equip a vehicle with EWDs is minimal but motor vehicle owners will repeatedly be apprehended for the same violation. The EWDs can be bought anywhere so long as these meet the LTO standards, she said. Safety nets that the LTO will undertake include marking the inspected EWDs with the vehicle’s plate number and date of inspection so these accessories cannot be passed on from one user to another, Lawas said. She said her office will intensify its information and education campaign on EWDS before it begins implementing the law by the first week of July.*JFP DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental ROFLMAO!!! Larry
My first thought about any new law like this is "who is going to profit from it" ? As in who owns the companies that make and sell these EWD's.
it will like the helemt, smoking, littering,and the rest of their so called laws nothing will happen, i think they pass the law then forget it . drive along the highway at night half of them dont have a reflector when they are moving so why have one when they are stopped . I heard that air bags , satnav,s a eperbs are next
They'll probably enforce it right after they enforce the laws about having headlights on, tail-lights, stop lights, turn-signal lights, driving on the correct side of the road, weaving in and out of traffic, passing when the yellow line is present, and so on. The biggest offenders to no lights I have seen are motorcycles. To me driving anything here at night is like playing Russian roulette.
That is a very good question! I imagine the answer is a Chinese owned company, sad to say. There are quite a few EWD's for sale online.
