Thailand license plate: Trade red
Issued today 1979 to today. Dealer plates for car, truck, van, and motorcycle, issued by กรมการขนส่งทางบก (Department of Land Transport, DLT), Ministry of Transport. One of 21 Thailand license plates.
The red trade plate a dealer bolts on to move a car that isn't registered yet, and the one Thai plate that comes with a curfew written into the statute that created it.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999, for example2409(9 any digit)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
- 1979 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, truck, van, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#D0021B - About this plate
- The red ground and the reported "one or two Thai consonants plus four digits" grammar are therefore corroboration-only and are marked as such on the design block and the pattern note. Live-issue caveat: DLT announced in 2015 an intention to abolish red plates in B.E. 2560 (2017); Thai press since reports them still in use. No instrument either way was secured, so the series is left OPEN.
- How long it is valid
- note: มาตรา ๒๗ of the Motor Vehicle Act, verbatim: "ผู้ใดมีรถยนต์ไว้เพื่อขาย หรือเพื่อซ่อม ถ้าจะขับเองหรือให้ผู้อื่นขับเพื่อการนั้น ต้องได้รับใบอนุญาต จากนายทะเบียน และให้ขับได้ระหว่างพระอาทิตย์ขึ้นถึงพระอาทิตย์ตก เว้นแต่มี ความจำเป็นและได้รับอนุญาตจากนายทะเบียน", a person holding a car for sale or repair needs a registrar's licence to drive it or have it driven, and it may be driven only BETWEEN SUNRISE AND SUNSET unless the registrar permits otherwise. The famous Thai "red plate" night-driving rule is in the Act itself.
Legal basis and sources
- มาตรา ๒๗, the dealer/repairer licence, the sunrise-to-sunset limit, and 'ในการออกใบอนุญาต ให้นายทะเบียนออกเครื่องหมายพิเศษและสมุดคู่มือประจำรถให้ด้วย' with 'เครื่องหมายพิเศษ ... ให้เป็นไปตามแบบที่กำหนดในกฎกระทรวง';... https://web.archive.org/web/20110203044221/http://web.krisdika.go.th/data/law/law2/%C301/%C301-20-9999-update.pdf
- Bangkok Post editorial, 4 October 2017, the red ground, the province-of-purchase restriction, the expressway ban and the permission-to-travel paperwork. https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1336019/red-licence-plates-drive-us-to-distraction
This plate in your app
The series id is th-trade-red. 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-trade-red")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-trade-red.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-trade-red/template.svg
