The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued a one-month suspension order to UBER effective immediately.
As per the advisory dated August 14,2017, LTFRB also recommend that UBER “extend financial assistance to its affected peer-operators during the period of suspension.” The advisory continues with, “accredited peer-operators would not have suffered the current predicament were it not for the predatory actions of the respondent user”.
Although no violations were mentioned in the advisory, this suspension order has come after many weeks of heated discussions between the LTFRB and transport network vehicle service (TNVS). The supposed violation made by UBER was their continued acceptance of new driver applications despite the LTFRB suspending the acceptance of new applications for permits.
The LTFRB has stopped accepting new TNVS applications since July 2016. The LTFRB claims that 56,000 drivers were activated by the TNVS (UBER and GRAB) operators, but only around 3,000 have either a Provisional Authority (PA) or a Certificate of Public Conveyance.
The suspension order was signed by LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra III along with board members Ronaldo Corpus and Aileen Lourdes Lizada.
