{"id":19721,"date":"2026-04-21T01:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=19721"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:36:20","slug":"piston-seeks-p10-jeepney-fare-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/piston-seeks-p10-jeepney-fare-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"PISTON SEEKS P10 JEEPNEY FARE HIKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRANSPORT group <\/strong><strong>Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide\u00a0(<\/strong><strong>PISTON) on Monday filed a petition before the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) seeking a P10 fare hike due to rising diesel prices.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If approved, the minimum fare for traditional jeepneys would increase to P23 from the current P13.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PISTON president Mody Floranda said diesel prices have reached as high as P170 per liter, affecting drivers\u2019 earnings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> He urged the government to address the issue, adding the recent rollbacks in petroleum prices are not enough to ease the burden on drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The group said at 30 liters per day, fuel alone costs a driver roughly P3,700. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They said combined with boundary, maintenance, and other daily expenses, the total operating costs were around P5,600.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The group said that at the current \u00a0fare rate, their gross revenue is only P2,600 to P3,900. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They added that with the P5,600 operating costs, they are losing P1,700 per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, PISTON said there will be a protest scheduled at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday at Petron Philcoa \u00a0in Quezon City to call for the scrapping of oil deregulation policies and fuel taxes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSPORT group Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operator Nationwide&nbsp;(PISTON) on Monday filed a petition before the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19723,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19721\/revisions\/19723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}