LTO: Release of plastic license cards starts today

The Land Transportation Office will start today the nationwide distribution of plastic driver’s license cards, LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II announced yesterday.

- BELLA CARIASO

An additional 600,000 plastic cards have been delivered to the LTO, according to Mendoza.

He said the LTO would be able to address the backlog in driver's licenses with the expected delivery of 9.7 million more plastic cards.

"In the regions, we started the distribution of plastic license cards.

Here in the National Capital Region, we will start tomorrow (Tuesday)," Mendoza said.

He said aside from the one million plastic cards, 6.5 million more would be delivered by the supplier.

"We need at least 550,000 to 600,000 cards per month. With the arrival of 6.5 million cards plus the remaining 3.2 million cards, these are enough to cover the backlog from last year and cover the 2024 requirements," Mendoza said.