Thailand license plate: LTA private white

Format, years and the law

Format

99-9999, for example 40-1234 (9 any digit)

Same statutory code table, private half: 40 to 49 private buses, 50 to 59 and 80 to 99 private trucks. The type code predicts the ground colour exactly, a code starting 4, 5, 8 or 9 must be white and privately operated.

40-49

รถโดยสารส่วนบุคคล (private passenger transport)

50-59

รถบรรทุกส่วนบุคคล (private goods transport)

80-99

รถบรรทุกส่วนบุคคล (private goods transport, second band)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued

Documented since 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for bus and truck.

Colours

Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Size

440 × 220 mm · every country's size

About this plate

PRIVATE-TRANSPORT PLATE under the Land Transport Act, identical in every dimension and metric to the yellow public plate, on a retroreflective WHITE ground. The instrument says so in one sentence, which is why the design block here is short and the sources line quotes it. The colour/type-code correspondence is exact and is the useful decode fact: a Thai commercial plate whose type code begins 4, 5, 8 or 9 is white and privately operated; 1, 2, 3, 6 or 7 is yellow and for hire.

Legal basis and sources

1. ข้อ ๒ (๒), verbatim: 'แผ่นป้ายเลขทะเบียนรถที่ใช้ในการขนส่งส่วนบุคคล มีลักษณะและขนาดเป็นไปตาม (๑) แต่มีพื้นเป็นวัสดุสะท้อนแสงสีขาว'; ข้อ ๒ (๓) (ง) (ฉ) the private bands 40-49, 50-59 and 80-99 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073451/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/E/044/52.PDF