Thailand license plate: Motorcycle private

Issued today Documented since 2011. Motorcycle plates, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.

Thailand license plate, Motorcycle private (documented since 2011), sample 3041

Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 3041 (9 any digit)
  • category_letter_1: delegated
  • category_letter_2: delegated
  • province: Bangkok or the province of registration; เบตง for Betong District, Yala

Three lines: series letters with a leading numeral that is part of the base motorcycle format (cars only earn theirs on exhaustion), the province in the middle, digits below. One town outranks its province, a plate registered at Betong reads เบตง, never ยะลา.

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
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
220 × 172 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PRIVATE MOTORCYCLE (รถจักรยานยนต์ส่วนบุคคล), black on retroreflective white, one plate at the rear.
About the format
The motorcycle plate is THREE lines, not two: line 1 = numeral 1-9 + category letter 1 + category letter 2; line 2 = the province name; line 3 = the registration number of not more than four digits. The pattern is line 3.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ข) ๑)-๔) 17.20 x 22 cm, ขส roundel upper right, three-line layout, character minima; ข้อ ๓ (๒) (จ) 'รถจักรยานยนต์ส่วนบุคคล ให้พื้นแผ่นป้ายใช้สีขาวสะท้อนแสง ... และขอบแผ่นป้ายใช้สีดำ'; ข้อ ๕ rear only 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-motorcycle-private-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-motorcycle-private-2011")'