(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has placed on preventive suspension the bus company that figured in a traffic incident on the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway.
The LTFRB suspended the Jumbo Transport Inc. for not more than 30 days, and ordered it to comply with certain requirements within the period of suspension.
The LTFRB ordered the company to bring its tourist buses to the agency for “inspection and determination of road worthiness,” to allow its drivers to undergo a road safety seminar conducted by the LTFRB, to allow its drivers to undergo drug testing conducted by the agency and the Department of Health, to submit the certificate of registration and the latest Land Transportation Office receipts to the agency and a list of its drivers, to submit video clips of the inspection, drug test and the road worthiness seminar, to submit the National Bureau of Investigation and Philippine National Police and barangay clearances and the system of hiring and supervision of its drivers, and to submit proof of the insurance’s payment to the victims.
The LTFRB also ordered the bus company to surrender the plates of its ten tourist buses, which it said would be impounded, on Monday, Feb. 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and to explain in writing within 72 hours why its certificate of public convenience should not be revoked or cancelled.
Four passengers died and several were hurt after a Jumbo Transport bus rear-ended a trailer truck in Concepcion, Tarlac on Jan. 31.
Investigators said the driver of the bus was speeding.
