Thailand license plate: LTA public yellow
Issued today Documented since 2011. Standard plates for bus and truck, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.
The plate on every intercity bus and licensed truck: THAILAND and a numeric province code above a type code and a serial that must print its leading zeros, the reverse of the usual convention.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99-9999, for example10-1234(9 any digit)The first two digits are a statutory vehicle-type code: 10 to 19 fixed-route buses, 20 to 29 small-vehicle transport, 30 to 39 non-scheduled (charter) buses, 60 to 69 and 70 to 79 hired trucks, the 70s exist because the 60s nearly ran out, and the instrument says so itself.
- 10-19
- รถโดยสารประจำทาง (scheduled (fixed-route) passenger transport)
- 20-29
- รถขนาดเล็ก (small-vehicle transport)
- 30-39
- รถโดยสารไม่ประจำทาง (non-scheduled passenger transport)
- 60-69
- รถบรรทุกไม่ประจำทาง (non-scheduled goods transport)
- 70-79
- รถบรรทุกไม่ประจำทาง (non-scheduled goods transport, the band added in 2011 when 60 to 69 neared exhaustion)
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
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Characters
#000000Background#FFD400 - Size
- 440 × 220 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- PUBLIC-TRANSPORT PLATE under the Land Transport Act, retroreflective YELLOW.
Legal basis and sources
- ข้อ ๒ (๑) 22 x 44 cm, retroreflective YELLOW ground, three lines (THAILAND + province code / type code - number / province name in Thai), ขส roundel lower left, all embossed in black, and the five character-metric... https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073451/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/E/044/52.PDF
This plate in your app
The series id is th-lta-public-yellow-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-lta-public-yellow-2011")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-lta-public-yellow-2011.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-lta-public-yellow-2011/template.svg
