# Thailand license plate: Trade red

> The Thailand trade red license plate: format 9999, for example 2409, 1979 to today, car, truck, van, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Thailand license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand) (21 registration series).

![Thailand license plate, Trade red (1979 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-trade-red/thailand-license-plate-trade-red.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | 1979 → today |
| Class | dealer |
| Issued for | car, truck, van, motorcycle |
| Colours | background #D0021B; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `th-trade-red` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/trade-red) |

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.

Sources:

- [มาตรา ๒๗ — the dealer/repairer licence, the sunrise-to-sunset limit, and 'ในการออกใบอนุญาต ให้นายทะเบียนออกเครื่องหมายพิเศษและสมุดคู่มือประจำรถให้ด้วย' with 'เครื่องหมายพิเศษ ... ให้เป็นไปตามแบบที่กำหนดในกฎกระทรวง'; the fee schedule prices เครื่องหมายพิเศษตามมาตรา ๒๗ at 100 baht each](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)

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-trade-red.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/thailand?series=th-trade-red
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "th-trade-red"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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