The Land Transportation Office, or LTO, is facing numerous challenges — from a driver's license backlog to an online portal's low utilization rate — that have earned the ire of government regulators and the public.

LTO chief, Atty. Vigor Mendoza II, however, said these challenges were all "inherited" from the agency's previous leaderships. Nonetheless, the new chief said he remains committed to addressing all of them.

"People are well aware of the driver's license issue, and that's an inherited problem. And, of course, the license plate backlog is also an inherited problem. This is an accumulation of so many years of backlogs that confront the new administration," he said.

"But then again, we already have a production timeline, distribution timeline within which to finish them," Vigor said in an interview Wednesday on Straight Talk, a Daily Tribune online show.

The LTO is facing a backlog of 2.4 million driver's licenses, which it will address by bidding out its 2024 supply of new licenses. 

Notably, however, the bidding was questioned in court, and a writ of preliminary injunction was issued, stopping the LTO from issuing new licenses.