'Angkas still safest motorcycle taxi in the country, its CEO says

ANGKAS remains the country's safest motorcycle taxi with a safety record of 99.997 percent, the company's Chief Executive Officer George Royeca said Tuesday.Royeca made the claim during a public hearing on the bill to legalize and regulate motorcycle-for-hire.Sen. Grace Poe said there was a need to legalize motorcycle-for-hire so they could be integrated into the country's public transportation landscape."The motorcycle-for-hire bill has been through the long and winding road to passage," Poe said during the public hearing conducted by the Senate Committee on Public Services led by Sen. Raffy Tulfo.Poe lauded Angkas for providing proper training to its riders for the safety of its passengers."I commend Angkas for doing this because you are the ones who started to professionalize this," she said in English and Filipino.Angkas said it was the first transportation network company (TNC) to develop its own basic motorcycle driving program to provide formal training to its riders to guarantee the safety of their passengers.Tulfo also commended Angkas for its efforts to ensure that all its riders adhere to government policies.Royeca said that Angkas had tapped a third-party auditor to monitor and audit the company's safety record."This is in our second year of implementation already. We get a Triple A third-party auditor to audit our safety record," Royeca said.