There is no magic to getting your OR/CR quickly and it costs no extra. Why it is important to get your OR/CR Quickly It is an offence to drive a vehicle without an OR/CR so we advise you not to ride your motorcycle if it is not registered. You are allowed to for 7 days …
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A lot of people are fitting a steering wheel in their Tuk Tuk so we thought we would take a look at this. Is Fitting a Steering Wheel in a Tuk Tuk Legal? I am sorry to inform you that if you have fitted a steering wheel to your TVS King or Bajaj RE you …
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There is much confusion about LTO memo about three-wheelers and Right-hand Lane Rule. Does it mean you have to stay in the right-hand lane stuck behind slower vehicles? The Law and the Right-hand Lane Rule There is no separate law concerning three-wheelers and what lane they should drive in. However, there is a law that …
New LTO Classification of Three-Wheelers. On the 20th November 2020, LTO released Memorandum Circular 2020-2227 which declared that L5 Symmetrically arranged Three-Wheeled Vehicles (TWV) would no longer be incorrectly registered as Motorcycle with Sidecar and would be registered correctly as Three-Wheeled Vehicles. The registration fees on a three-wheeled vehicle would be the same as a …
On the 21st October 2020, an MMDA appeal by the driver of a Tuk Tuk who was given a ticket for the tricycle ban on Commonwealth Ave Quezon City given by an MMDA enforcer was heard by the Traffic Adjudication Division of MMDA. This has been posted many times in many Tuk Tuk groups on …
MMDA Appeal Concludes that Tricycle Ban does not Apply to Tuk Tuks Read More »
After having a problem because Enforcers Stop Tuk Tuk thinking all three-wheelers are tricycles I wrote this letter to the concerned Traffic Management Unit. Dear SirWhen travelling in my Bajaj RE I was apprehended by your traffic enforcers. From spending the last 2 years researching the laws on three-wheelers I believe the stop was incorrect …
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Any Ban on National Highways or any other road should have prohibited road signs to inform the driver according to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. The Philippines is a Contracting party to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals was ratified by Presidential …
DILG Ban on National Highways Should have Prohibitory Road Signs Read More »
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 under the Obstruction law Philippines. In Puerto Princesa they have been apprehending tricycles on the national highway and charging them with obstruction. It is very interesting that …
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Did you know that under the law the DILG Tricycle Ban does not apply to three-wheelers? 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. DILG Tricycle Ban …
Does the Tricycle ban apply to Lazada Three-Wheeler 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 Three-Wheeler Drivers? The law that bans tricycles from national highways comes under the Department of the …
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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 under the Tricycle Ban. First, we should make it clear that when we talk about a private owner we are talking about a person that uses their tuk …
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Letter to LTO, Concerning Three-Wheelers 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 …
Tuk Tuk Registration in the Philippines We have believed for a long time that registering a Tuk Tuk, TVS King, 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 …
Tuk Tuk Registration It Should not be Motorcycle with Sidecar? Must Read Read More »
Philippines Tricycles meet EURO 3 or 4 Emission Standards we check the facts. Claim: Philippines Tricycles 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 …
Fact Check: Philippines Tricycles meet EURO 3 or 4 Emission Standards the Truth Read More »
Claim All Vehicles with Three Wheels are Tricycles – False In the Philippines people often tell you that all vehicles with 3 wheels are tricycles and not cars because cars have four wheels. We fact check this claim. Cars have four wheels At the time of publishing this, there are 46 companies in the world …
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If you drive a TVS King, Piaggio Ape or a Bajaj RE and you have ever thought about heading north from Manila you are probably aware of the problems drivers of the above vehicles have had with traffic enforcers in Valenzuela City. We are pleased to announce that we have found evidence that the traffic …
Valenzuela City Private Tuk Tuk Drivers and the Law Read More »
The Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act also known as the Republic Act No 11235 has some very interesting twists for Tuk Tuks like the Bajaj RE, the Piaggio Ape and the TVS King. the most interesting of these is they will be some of the few vehicles that are regarded as motorcycles that are allowed to …
Are LTO Registering Three Wheelers Correctly? LTO have started to register three wheelers such as the Bajaj RE and the Piaggio Ape as Motorcycle with sidecars. Is this the correct way of registering three wheelers? When the Piaggio Ape and the Bajaj RE were first introduced to the Philippines LTO registered them as Non-Conventional Motorcycle …
