Thailand license plate: Agricultural orange

Issued today Documented since 2011. Agricultural plates for tractor and machine, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.

Thailand license plate, Agricultural orange (documented since 2011), sample 1717

Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 1717 (9 any digit)

Orange ground covers road rollers, tractors and farm machines; the two letters are the standard class-tied series pairs, the province is spelled out beneath. The one plate family also excused from the windscreen tax sticker.

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F58220
Size
340 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
ROAD ROLLER (รถบดถนน), TRACTOR (รถแทรกเตอร์) and AGRICULTURAL WORK VEHICLE (รถใช้งานเกษตรกรรม), black characters on retroreflective orange. Note that the ANNUAL TAX MARK rule of ข้อ ๖ excepts this class along with motorcycles and trailers: the sticker need not go on the windscreen.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ง), and ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ก) which lists รถบดถนน รถแทรกเตอร์ และรถใช้งานเกษตรกรรม among the 15 x 34 cm classes https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF

This plate in your app

The series id is th-agricultural-orange-2011. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Thailand's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "th-agricultural-orange-2011")'