Thailand license plate: Motorcycle public

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

Thailand license plate, Motorcycle public (documented since 2011), sample 6593

Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 6593 (9 any digit)

Yellow says motorcycle taxi; the three-line layout stacks series letters, then the province, then the number. The letters mean sequence, never place, Thai plates spell geography out rather than coding it.

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
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD400
Size
220 × 172 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PUBLIC MOTORCYCLE (รถจักรยานยนต์สาธารณะ), the motorcycle taxi: black on retroreflective YELLOW.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ฉ) 'รถจักรยานยนต์สาธารณะ ให้พื้นแผ่นป้ายใช้สีเหลืองสะท้อนแสง ... และขอบแผ่นป้ายใช้สีดำ'; size and layout per ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ข) 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-public-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-public-2011")'