THE Land Transportation Office on Monday said a total of five million plastic cards for driver’s licenses are set to arrive within the year with an initial one million up for delivery within two months to address the current shortage of cards.
LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II said the supplier for the plastic cards, Banner Plasticards Inc., would deliver weekly supplies of 500,000 each month.
“All in all we’re looking at around a million plastic cards in the next 60 days, so that would be sufficient to wipe out whatever backlog we have now,” he said in an interview on CNN’s The Source.
The twin deliveries of 500,000 plastic cards are sufficient to address the current backlog of 900,000 cards for the driver’s license, he said.
The agency expects five million cards within the year.
Last Thursday, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista received the initial delivery of 5,000 plastic cards from Banner Plasticard Inc.
