The Philippines is a Contracting party to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals were ratified by Presidential Decree No. 207 (1973), thus adopting and making the convention “part of the law of the land.” So if you get stopped and […]
We are struggling to stop authorities, enforcers and security guards thinking a Tuk Tuk is a tricycle and by using the term tri you are not helping. Triwheeler, Tricab and many other words seem to be used frequently it seems like some are obsessed with the term tri and will […]
Yesterday a Jeepney killed a 14-year-old boy and injured 7 other students. Last month a Jeepney in Pasig City had an accident and 10 people were hurt. Google News shows how common this is with headlines like. 6 killed, 18 injured in Albay Jeepney accident 1 dead, 21 injured in […]
No, we are not telling you to speed or drive in a dangerous way, we are telling you to make sure they have no grounds to charge you with obstruction. In Puerto Princesa they have been apprehending tricycles on the national highway and charging them with obstruction. It is very […]
Yet again Tuk Tuk groups on Facebook are full of posts about tuk-tuks being banned from national highways. This simply is not true and is fuelled by people that do not understand what a tricycle is. The ban on tricycles comes under the Department of the Interior and Local Government […]
If anything proves three-wheelers are cars, not tricycles it has to be the Allard Clipper Three-Wheeler. The reason this strange looking little car proves it is it holds four records in the car world. Allard Motor Company Limited had been building cars in Clapham South London since 1945 most well […]
Most people will probably think to claim a Tuk Tuk being safer than an SUV is a stupid statement but if you read on you will realise it is not so stupid. The problem with SUVs is they are not as safe as people think and it lures them into […]
Aermacchi like Piaggio was an Italian aircraft manufacturer, that at the end of WWII decided to start building a Three-Wheeler Truck. Also like Piaggio, they decided to go with a three-wheeler. Production started on the Aermacchi Macchi in 1947 and carried on until the 1970s. However, production did not end […]
Both India and Sri Lanka are seeing a huge boost in tourism as people from all over the world flock to their countries to experience the Tuk Tuk. Tourists seem to love Tuk Tuks so much that they are prepared to spend thousands of dollars on Tuk Tuk adventures in […]
Enforcers, LGUs, LTO , MMDA and even owners of three-wheelers seem to not understand the law when it comes to the tricycle ban. I have spent the last 2 years researching the laws of the Philippines concerning three-wheelers and I am shocked at how often I hear of people misinterpreting […]
Does the Tricycle ban apply to Lazada drivers or other delivery drivers using three-wheelers? The simple answer is no, the tricycle ban on national highways does not apply to Lazada drivers. Why does it not apply to Lazada Drivers? The law that bans tricycles from national highways comes under the […]
Many private owners of the Bajaj RE, TVS King and Piaggio Ape are being stopped and ticketed by enforcers for driving a tricycle on the national highway. First we should make it clear that when we talk about a private owner we are talking about a person that uses their […]
Dear LTO It has come to our attention that false information is being added to the certificate of registration (CR) of Indian designed three-wheeled vehicles such as the Bajaj RE and the Piaggio Ape. Firstly we would like to ask if it is legal for false information to be entered […]
When Tricycle drivers talk to us about Tuk Tuks they often ask why they should spend so much more on a TVS King three-wheeler than they would for a tricycle. The TVS has so many advantages over a tricycle which makes it difficult to know where to start. Customer Service […]
Firstly we would like to thank TVS Philippines for lending us a TVS King Deluxe for 2 weeks to test it. When we have done test drives of other brands of Tuk Tuks we only had a short time to test them and had their staff sitting in with us. […]
When Prince William and his wife Kate arrived at a reception hosted by the British High Commissioner to Pakistan in Islamabad, they did so in style, their means of transport was a Tuk Tuk also known as an Auto Rickshaw. It seems the British think the Tuk Tuk is safe […]
We have believed for a long time that registering a Tuk Tuk, Bajaj RE or Piaggio Ape as a Motorcycle with sidecar can not be right as it is clearly registering it as something it is not. We then came across this article in Carmudi Insider, in which Albert Suansing […]
Claim: Tricycle emissions meet Euro 3 or 4 standards. We have heard the claim many times that new tricycles in the Philippines meet Euro 3 or Euro 4 Emission Standards. First, we must make it clear that when we talk about tricycles we follow what the senate says is a […]