LTO-Eagles Joint Emission Testing Task Force
As a member of the Philippine Eagles I joined the Joint Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Eagles Emissions Testing to pull over vehicles on the national highway, just West of Bulua.
I was there to watch, learn, and document. I did not stick my hose in anhyone’s tailpipe.
LTO-Eagles Joint Emission Testing Task Force Photo Gallery
I would have preferred a more statistical approach, one that would have revealed some useful information, where we would stop and test every vehicle that came by and not only take the emissions information, but the make, model, year, and fuel type, over a period of 4 hours or so. This would have given us a total traffic and vehicular type for a certain amount ot time so that we could get a better idea of just how bad, what percentage of all vehicles would fail the emissions test, but we didn’t have enough testing equipment or people to do that rigid of a survey.
I also never thought to ask what it was we were testing for. Were we testing for cabron-monoxide levels, unburned fuel, hydrocarbons, sulfer oxide, and/or unburned fuels? I would have been interested in examining those results also, and maybe the machine used did do that, but to me it looked more like it worked on a simple pass-fail basis.
First of all, we did not pull over every car, and there were certain types we did not pull over at all. Like Toyota Vios and Kia Picantos were immune. I think we did an emission test on one van, but all the rest of the vehicles has 6 wheels or more.
Most of the vehicles stopped were not even checked. The LTO officers would have the driver put the vehicle in neutral and rev the engine. If no smoke came out, they would let them go on. Only the ones with smoke coming out of the tailpipe were tested. Some passed, most failed. Some failed miserably as you can see in the following short video.
Full video of the Joint LTO-Philippine Eagles Task Force, this is about 32 minutes long and 37 MB is size
November 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Gud day sir,
May I know where can we purchase those testing gadget? It could be a good instrument to initiate an organization, environment concerns. Thank you and i am looking forward on your reply.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Search at Google for “emission analyzer”. If you want the specific equipment used by the local LTO you can search for “Autochek emission analyzer”. However, there are several manufacturers that make this kind of equipment. Good luck.