The warning has been fulfilled! What was supposed to be a basic procedure has become a bureaucratic wall that leaves a strategic sector dependent on a piece of paper instead of a metal plate, is how transporters describe the scene.
As T21 anticipated , the federal license plate crisis arrives in October without a single metal plate available .
The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation (SICT) published a notice in the Official Gazette of the Federation authorizing federal transportation service vehicles and their modes to operate with a printed “template” as a means of vehicle identification for a period of 180 days.
However, the measure that was supposed to provide certainty became another obstacle: the document, despite having been published on September 22 , cannot be consulted (reviewed at the time of this article) on the Cofemer platform , where the draft projects should be available for public review, as well as the comments of those affected.
For the union , this opacity exacerbates uncertainty, because they do not have direct access to the guidelines that regulate their daily operations.
A few days ago, Eucario Reyes, president of the National Association of Motor Transport Representation (ANRA), told T21 that by October there wouldn’t be a single license plate left at the General Directorate of Federal Motor Transport (DGAF).
The scene is confirmed by an improvised mechanism that reduces vehicular formality to a printed template , with no details about its placement or characteristics, since the Cofemer portal does not allow the document to be consulted.
For transporters, the solution doesn’t resolve the underlying problem: companies will remain trapped in temporary procedures that expire in 30 or 90 days, impossible to reconcile with annual contracts and commitments. In Reyes’s words, the situation is “very sad” and reflects a void in which bureaucracy outweighs the country’s own machinery.
In this context, this situation not only symbolizes a lack of resources, but also a critical disconnect between administrative decisions and the actual operation of transportation.
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