Best Posts in Thread: New LTO Driver's License Law

So when you get caught by a checkpoint having an expired foreign license, better tell the cops you have no license, it will save you @least 3500 peso.

 

I received a paper saying "valid as temporary driver's license until dl card is released". The other side says Official Receipt. They said that it would be April or May to receive permanent hard copy.

 

I am a newcomer here and I have some information to share. For starters I did not need to show a license to buy my Scooter in Tagbilaran. And as far as acquiring a new license they require a visa showing a 1 year visa. Or in this case being married. There is another option. An international drivers license. These are available at some major cities like Manila and Cebu. In Cebu they say it takes 3-5 business days to acquire so plan on making 2 trips or staying over. I plan to stay over due to the fact I can renew my visa for 6 months there. In Tagbilaran it is only 2 months. Not sure of how long I can renew for when I move to Dumaguete.AAPhilippines | Automobile Association Philippines. This is the link for the international license. Also I found that there is a 5000 php for driving with an expired foreign licence. Note this is 3500 higher than driving without a license. lol you just can't make this stuff up.

 

The New Tourism Ad for the Philippines should read, " everything is harder in the Philippines, Come join us in bashing our heads against the wall "

 

I walked into McD's once and ordered a #5. The chick at the counter had no idea what I was talking about it. I pointed at the menu and said #5, still nothing. I leaned over the counter, stretched and pointed. Good thing she got it that time because my next move was to launch a spit-wad at the menu.

The salary of a McD's worker is probably greater than the base salary of an LTO worker. And I'm sure the technology at McD's is far more advanced. I have seen government offices here which had typewriters. These offices make McD's look like mission control for the space program.

With all that technology, if McD's front lines can't make the connection that #5 = cheeseburger (with a huge sign declaring as such) then what hope do they have at the LTO?

 

I watched the video again and I don't see where this guy quoted the law. It may not be the law. This guy gets so much stuff wrong, I watched a half dozen of his videos and dismissed him as a credible source of information a few months ago.

 

Let me guess, transportation providers are complaining to few foreigners willing to ride and especially pay extra fairs so they plan to stop foreigners from buying our own vehicles so we are dependent on paying someone else. There excuse it utter nonsense though. Very few foreigners likely abandon their vehicle like they suggest and if they do it was probably with an old GF or her family. Then look at how many locals here are driving without licenses or registration so why should their be any issue with that foreigners vehicle ran by the old GFs family and herself?

It would be far easier and more profitable to deal with these *abandoned vehicles* is they simply made a law that stated if a vehicle has been abandoned a month in the same public space that it can be picked up by LTO and refurbished and sold under a new title. Invest 5k fixing up the motor or 15k fixing up the car and then go sell it for 10x what it cost to fix and big profits. Of course this would p*ss off locals who abandon vehicles and expect to be able to have a laugh a year later when they pass their busted vehicle to see it still there.

I still think before they go onto all this anti foreigner crap they should focus on registrations and licenses of all drivers locals and foreigners alike. Start nabbing them it traps and heavy fines and if not paid auction the vehicle or destroy it if its a public hazard vehicle.

 

I received my first Philippine Driver's License today (Foreign Conversion). Went to take a Medical test, and then a drug test. The Dumaguete LTO just asked to see my Balikbayan stamp in my passport. Went to take a Medical test, and then a drug test. License good for 5 years.