RESEARCH STATUSEvery figure on this site is at research status. No reviewer has signed one off, and the national schedule was transcribed by eye from page scans.

Weight, load and dimensions

Two of the three items on this page are flat figures. The third is a percentage of a base rate set outside the order, and this site does not hold that base — so the formula is on the page and the amount is not, which is the honest end of that sentence.

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The schedule's third section

Three items, and only two of them are numbers

The middle row is the one this site cannot price, and the row says so rather than leaving the cell empty.

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Weight, load and dimensions
Item	Violation	Fine	Consequence class	Source
III.a	Load extending beyond the projected width, without a permit	₱1,000	Fine + vehicle	SCAN · READ BY EYE
III.b	Axle overloading — loading beyond the registered gross vehicle weight	No amount statedA percentage of a base rate this corpus does not holdUNMEASURED	Fine + licence	SCAN · READ BY EYE
III.c	Operating a passenger bus or truck with cargo above the stated thresholdCharged to driver and conductor	₱1,000	Fine + vehicle	SCAN · READ BY EYE

The formula

A percentage of something this site does not hold

The percentage is stated plainly. The base it applies to is a rate set outside the schedule, and it was not obtainable.

MISSING INPUT

25% of the base rate, at the time of infringement

base: MVUC (Motor Vehicle User's Charge) at the time of infringement

This site holds no value for that base rate, so there is nothing to apply the percentage to and no peso figure can be computed. That is why the row above shows no amount rather than a zero: a zero would say the penalty is nothing, and an empty cell would say we forgot.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item III.b · page 15 of the scan

UNMEASURED

The overloading fine cannot produce a peso figure

Overloading is priced as a percentage of a vehicle charge that is set outside this schedule. The percentage is stated plainly; the charge itself is a rate this site could not obtain, so there is no base to apply the percentage to. The schedule then adds “to be computed based on formula”, and the formula is not written anywhere in the schedule either. This site therefore shows the percentage, names the missing input, and shows no peso figure.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item III.b · page 15 of the scan

And the schedule does not state the formula either

At the point where the calculation would be set out, the instrument's own full text is 'To be computed based on formula.' The formula is not written anywhere in it. So even a reader who obtained the base rate would not be able to finish the sum from this instrument.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item III.b · page 16 of the scan

SourceSCAN · READ BY EYEJoint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item III.b · page 15 of the scanIn force 3 June 2014. That is the date stamped on the order’s own face. The order does not state when it commenced: it says only that it takes effect fifteen days after publication in two newspapers and a filing with the national administrative register, and neither of those records is in this site’s corpus. So the real start date is later than the date above by an unknown margin. The order has never been amended.Source last read 7 August 2026 — a read date, not a sign-off.

The two thresholds that are not fines

Past these, the vehicle does not move at all

They are an operational bar rather than a penalty, and the instrument states them separately from the fine above.

Absolute

Dual-wheel axle load

No motor vehicle may proceed on the roadway if a dual-wheel axle load exceeds 13,500 kg. That is not priced — the vehicle stops.

Absolute

Gross weight

The same bar applies where the load exceeds 150% of the maximum allowable gross weight.

A tolerance

Below this, the penalty is waived

The instrument waives the overloading penalty for loads exceeding the registered gross vehicle weight by less than 5%. That is a stated tolerance in the instrument itself, not an enforcement practice.