Thailand license plate: Taxi
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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999, for example3207(9 any digit)Yellow ground, black characters: the metered taxi. Bangkok's taxi letter pairs famously open with ท, the letter recited as "soldier", running ทค, ทง and onward. The category lives in the colours; the letters just count the fleet.
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
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Characters
#000000Background#FFD400 - Size
- 340 × 150 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- METERED TAXI (รถยนต์รับจ้างบรรทุกคนโดยสารไม่เกินเจ็ดคน, a car for hire carrying not more than seven passengers): black characters on a retroreflective YELLOW ground. Yellow is the statutory ground for all four hire classes of ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก); the CHARACTER colour is what separates them, and that is the whole design logic of the Thai hire fleet.
Legal basis and sources
- ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก) retroreflective yellow ground for the four hire classes; ๒) 'รถยนต์รับจ้างบรรทุกคนโดยสารไม่เกินเจ็ดคนใช้สีดำ' 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-taxi-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-taxi-2011")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-taxi-2011.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-taxi-2011/template.svg
