LTO-7 suspends another driving school

CEBU, Philippines — The Land Transportation Office-7 has suspended another private driving school in Cebu City, the second for this year, after being found guilty of violating the accreditation for their offered Practical Driving Course (PDC).

LTO-7 issued a suspension order against Cebu Integrated Driving School - Bulacao Branch for failing to install the proper Motor Vehicle Body Markings on the vehicle used for their PDC courses.

LTO-7 Regional Director Victor Emmanuel Caindec approved the resolution suspending the said driving school and its driving instructor Marlon Orcullo.

“Our continued efforts are directives from our LTO chief, Asec. Tugade that we are just slowly implementing in the region,” said Caindec, in a statement.

The LTO-7 regional head said that more driving schools will suffer the same fate and vowed that they will be relentless in these efforts as some have become abusive.

Aside from imposing a fine of P10,000 to both the private driving school and the instructor, Mr. Orcullo is also facing a six months suspension on his accreditation as a driving instructor.

LTO Memorandum Circular 2021-2284 Section 10-D states that all motor vehicles used in the practical instruction shall bear markings "CAUTION - STUDENT DRIVER" in a white capital letter at least eight inches in height with a red background, and readable from the back of the motor vehicle.

As per the resolution of the Regional Accreditation Committee for Driving Schools of LTO-7, it received a recorded video from Caindec showing the incident which happened last October 25, 2022.

While the driving school admitted their violation when they were served the show cause order, the RAC ruled out that it is inappropriate and unlawful for a driving school to conduct PDC using a motor vehicle without proper body markings. —/GMR (FREEMAN)