THE LAND Transportation Office (LTO) has set maximum rates on fees that private driving schools can charge.  

“Since last year, the agency’s technical working group held a series of meetings and consultations with the different driving schools’ associations and stakeholders which led to the prescribed maximum rates that we are going to implement,” LTO chief Jose Arturo Tugade said in a press release on Wednesday.   

“The rates were computed to make sure that driving institutions still get a fair return of investments and at the same time make it affordable to the public,” he added.   

The regulator said the new rates will be under the Omnibus Guidelines on the Accreditation, Supervision, and Control of Driving Institutions, and the Standardization of Driver and Conductor’s Education.   

The guidelines allow a maximum rate of P1,000 for theoretical driving courses (TDC), P2,500 for practical driving courses (PDC) with license codes A and A1, and P4,000 for license codes B, B1, and B2.   

Accredited driving institutions will also be required to hold the mandatory 15-hour TDC in two days. The first seven hours shall be held on the first day and the remaining eight hours on the second day.  

PDCs, on the other hand, shall not be less than eight hours per driver’s license code applied for.  

For light and heavy vehicles, the required PDC should last for at least two days, while the eight-hour PDC for motorcycles can be completed in a day.  

The guidelines also require driving institutions to enroll the details of their clients as well as the certificate of course completion to the LTO system. — Justine Irish DP. Tabile

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