Still haven鈥檛 received your license plates? Disgruntled employees from the Land Transportation Office (LTO) may be behind it.
In an interview last week, LTO spokesperson Jason Salvador expressed the agency鈥檚 suspicions that delays in the release of license plates weren鈥檛 due to any shortage in supplies, but due to 鈥渟abotage鈥� from within the the LTO鈥檚 ranks.
鈥淚n the course of the license plates standardization program, we鈥檝e been encountering several challenges from within and from the outside. One is the perceived deliberate delay in the ordering,鈥� Salvador said, in a phone interview聽on Thursday.
鈥淔irst, we thought it was just some failures here and there, but over time, it [began to] seem deliberate. [Employees on the ground] haven鈥檛 been ordering [supplies] correctly despite the fact that we鈥檝e issued several 鈥� instructions,鈥� Salvador said.
Salvador noted that when the public inquired on the delayed license plates, the LTO鈥檚 frontline services had a tendency to reply 鈥淛ust file a complaint with our higher-ups.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 like they鈥檙e trying to incite [outrage],鈥� Salvador said.
Salvador pinned the blame on employees who might be against the 鈥渞eforms鈥� or changes the LTO has been implementing the past two years. 鈥淭his might be one of the [ways] they can get back at management,鈥� Salvador said.
Salvador said they would investigate employees responsible for any gridlock in the license plates鈥� issuance. 鈥淲e have already issued memorandums, and if they still don鈥檛 comply, then heads will roll,鈥� Salvador warned.
Earlier in April, when the LTO received flak from the public over the start of the implementation of their 鈥淣o Registration, No Travel鈥� policy, the Department of Transportation and Communication blamed private car dealers for the delay in the license plates鈥� issuance.
The DOTC maintained that they have already issued to car dealers the license plates of cars newly registered at the LTO鈥檚 National Capital Region (NCR) office. SFM