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The Department of Agriculture (DA) has secured a temporary toll fee waiver for trucks hauling agricultural goods, part of a broader push to ease logistics costs, stabilize food prices, and protect farmers’ incomes amid rising fuel costs. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. said the exemption—facilitated by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Toll […]
Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel III called on the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) and the North Luzon Express NLEX) Corporation to put on hold the provisional increase in toll rates in light of the worsening traffic conditions on the expressway and the burden of inflation faced by the Filipino people. “In behalf of the hundreds […]
More loopholes were uncovered in the implementation of cashless transactions in toll ways, according to Senator Win Gatchalian, which prompted Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade to accede to the overall impression of failure of leadership and failure of enforcement of regulatory officials manning the expressways. Senators were told during the recent hearing on […]