Thailand license plate: Test TC/QC

Issued today 2017 to today. Temporary plates for car and motorcycle, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.

Thailand license plate, Test TC/QC (2017 to today), sample TC-1234

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example TC-1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2017 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
TEST-VEHICLE MARK (เครื่องหมายแสดงการใช้รถที่ใช้เพื่อการทดสอบ), in force 1 April 2017. The instrument is fully primary and unusually informative, it even provides that a QUALITY-TEST mark "ให้ใช้สับเปลี่ยนกันได้ไม่เฉพาะ คันรถ" (may be swapped between vehicles, unlike the pre-production mark, which is issued per vehicle). Only the two-letter prefixes are unverified.
How long it is valid
pre production days: 180. quality test days: 90. note: ข้อ ๘: the permit runs 180 days for a pre-production test vehicle and 90 days for a quality-test vehicle, from the day of permission

Legal basis and sources

  1. ประกาศกรมการขนส่งทางบก ... รถที่ใช้เพื่อการทดสอบ พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๐, ข้อ ๑ in force 1 April 2017; ข้อ ๒ the definitions of รถทดสอบก่อนผลิต and รถทดสอบคุณภาพ; ข้อ ๗ the annexed form and the rule that quality-test marks are... https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2560/E/092/6.PDF

This plate in your app

The series id is th-test-tcqc-2017. 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-test-tcqc-2017")'