The group Coalition 169 has renewed its call for the immediate rollout of the government-owned Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) after the Land Transportation Office (LTO) formally committed to fully operating and maintaining the platform in a letter to the Office of the Ombudsman.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has informed the Office of the Ombudsman that nationwide operations have been hampered by outages in the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), while ongoing legal disputes involving the system's contractor continue to complicate efforts to fully migrate and independently operate the platform.
The Office of the Ombudsman has directed the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to immediately stop using the LTO-IT system operated by Stradcom Corporation and fully migrate all transactions to the government-owned Land Transportation Management System (LTMS).
A group identified as Coalition 169 has raised new concerns over the Land Transportation Office’s continued rollout of the Stradcom-managed LTO IT System in several regions, citing questions over regulatory approvals and possible data privacy risks.
A multisectoral group has filed a complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman accusing current and former officials of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO), along with a private contractor, of graft and administrative violations over the continued collection of “computer fees.”
A transport group representing public utility vehicle (PUV) operators has questioned the collection of a ₱169 computer fee per transaction, claiming it has generated more than ₱169 million and may have been implemented without sufficient justification.
IT solutions provider Stradcom Corporation has formally requested Newsbytes.PH to issue a rectification and clarification over a recent article that linked the company’s legacy LTO database system to an alleged luxury car smuggling operation.
The country’s most luxurious cars — including two smuggled Bugatti Chirons — were registered not through the government’s new digital platform, but through an obsolete Land Transportation Office (LTO) system that should have been decommissioned two years ago, investigators have confirmed.
At the heart of the controversy is the LTO’s handling of online registration through its Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), which was designed to tighten safeguards but has instead become mired in loopholes and disputes with the Bureau of Customs (BOC).
The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has raised serious concerns over the Land Transportation Office’s (LTO) proposed Online Driver’s License Renewal System (ODLRS), particularly its new online medical clearance feature, calling it unsafe, misleading, and prone to abuse.
