Thailand license plate: Small four-wheel hire

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

Thailand license plate, Small four-wheel hire (documented since 2011), sample 3899

Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 3899 (9 any digit)

Navy characters on yellow mark the small shared four-wheeler, the songthaew class. The letters mean sequence, not category; the colour pair does the classing, the province line the geography.

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 car.
Colours
Characters #002F87 Background #FFD400
Size
340 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
SMALL FOUR-WHEELED HIRE CAR (รถยนต์สี่ล้อเล็กรับจ้าง), the small shared pickup/songthaew class: navy characters on retroreflective yellow. Fourth and last of the yellow-ground hire classes of ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก).

Legal basis and sources

  1. ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก) ๔) 'รถยนต์สี่ล้อเล็กรับจ้างใช้สีน้ำเงิน' on retroreflective yellow 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-smallfourwheel-hire-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-smallfourwheel-hire-2011")'