Motorcycle taxi firm Move It on Thursday asked the Motorcycle Taxi Technical Working Group (MCT-TWG) to immediately halt the implementation of its April 2025 order, which significantly slashes its rider allocation.
The appeal was made in a supplement to its motion for reconsideration filed on May 22, in which Move It warned that continued inaction on the part of the government could result in the layoff of more than 14,000 riders and could be detrimental to thousands of commuters, particularly in the face of the scheduled rehabilitation of EDSA next month.
The six-page filing supplements the company’s April 30 motion questioning the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) order that directed Move It to reduce its rider force and suspend its operations in Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.
Move It maintained that the LTFRB order was “fatally flawed for non-compliance with the constitutionally protected right to due process.”
“It is both arbitrary and unjust for the Honorable MCT-TWG to base a decision — one that effectively obliterates up to 14,000 jobs — on a single ‘hearing’ conducted solely by the Secretariat, without the presence of the Chairman, Vice Chairperson, the five other members of the Honorable MCT-TWG, and, most critically, without the participation of the directly affected parties, Move It and the riders.”
Move It explained that the April 2025 hearing was lacking in proper representation as “only the complainants Jomila May Fugaban and Ronald Gustilo, representing Digital Pinoys, and the Honorable MCT-TWG’s Secretariat were present.”
Despite this, the order in question was signed by the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson, and not signed at all by the remaining members of the TWG.
Move It warned that “this also equates to more than 14,000 families which are in danger of losing a source of income and users who stand to lose another option for cost-efficient, safe and convenient transportation.”
The company also pointed out the timing of the order, noting that “ironically, the Order was released just before Labor Day, a day meant to celebrate the ordinary, hardworking Filipino.”
Move It stressed that it does not question the TWG’s authority to regulate, but emphasized that “the power of regulation should be exercised in accordance with the tenets of due process as mandated by the 1987 Philippine Constitution, wherein ‘[n]o person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law[.]’”
Move It further argued that “with due respect to the Honorable MCT-TWG, a perusal of the Order would show that Move It’s arguments in its Answer regarding its strict compliance with the allocation of riders under the ‘Revised General Guidelines for the Pilot Implementation of Motorcycles dated 24 November 2020,’ as amended, were not even duly taken into consideration.”
“The enforcement of the Order – which was issued in flagrant violation of the right to due process – will displace almost 7,000 riders in Metro Manila, 3,000 in Cebu, and 3,000 in CDO who depend on Move It for their livelihood. This also equates to more than 14,000 families which are in danger of losing a source of income and users who stand to lose another option for cost-efficient, safe and convenient transportation,” Move it said .
“Any further delay in the resolution of the Motion will not just affect 14,000 riders and their families, but also the riding public, for whom the MCT pilot study was contemplated and envisioned,” it added
