Thailand license plate: Private pickup

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

Thailand license plate, Private pickup (documented since 2011), sample 4287

Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 4287 (9 any digit)

Green characters carry the legal meaning; the letters carry the story. Bangkok pickup series are reported under ฒ, ณ, ต, ถ, บ, ป, ผ, ย, ร and ล, old man, novice monk, turtle, sack, leaf, fish, bee, giant, boat and monkey, in the recited letter names.

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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck.
Colours
Characters #009A44 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PRIVATE GOODS VEHICLE (รถยนต์บรรทุกส่วนบุคคล), the pickup truck, the most numerous body style in Thailand, on green characters over retroreflective white. Distinguishing this from the black-charactered car plate is the single most useful colour fact in Thai plate reading, and it is primary.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ค) ๓) 'รถยนต์บรรทุกส่วนบุคคลใช้สีเขียว' on retroreflective white 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-private-pickup-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-private-pickup-2011")'