DOTR LTO READY TO PRODUCE OWN VEHICLE Plate Motoring News

For a faster and more efficient production of vehicle license plates, the Department of the Transportation or DOTr, through the Land Transportation Office or LTO, acquired plate making machines to boost the capacity of the government to manufacture plates on its own. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade inspected the seven units of Manual Embossing Machines which were delivered last February at the LTO Motor Vehicle License Plate Facility. The contract stipulated only five manual plate making machines, but the contractor added two more for temporary use at no additional cost. However, the department announced that one unit of Automated Embossing Machine will also be delivered in July, and will be made operational in August 2018. The LTO said that the seven units of manual embossing machines are capable of producing 22,000 plates per day. The machines have already been calibrated and are already operational. Meanwhile, the automated embossing machine can produce 12,000 plates per day.