Classic Ray

Any zero -dollar Chinese steel reinforcement factories operating here? Serm to remember a massive explosion and fire in a chemical factory outside Bangkok a couple of years ago, wasn’t that Chinese-owned as well?

Without bothering to publish the actual website address. i can foresee many scam agents diverting potential applicants to their sites to traffic and cheat them.

And yet many Thai restaurants rarely offer sugar-free drinks and 3 in 1 coffee remains ubiquitous. Of course hiso sugar producers don’t want to see consumption reduced as it hits profits. The tax just diverts some of the profit to the Government.

Not a mention of increasing police mobile patrols to detect speeders and drunk drivers. Just providing (probably unpaid) vocational students to perform repair services on EVs. When will the first one be killed by the high voltages involved, or the first unquenchable fire happens? At least it keeps the police overtime bill low and makes up for those enjoying Songkran rather than doing their duty. The situation will not change until the Government and Thai people accept they have a problem and really want to reduce road collisions. But I won’t hold my breath on that one due to the fatalism and apathy shown so far.

Racial discrimination and xenophobia alive and well here!

Are Italian Thai and the Chinese Railway company assisting in the rescue operation? Both companies have access to heavy equipment and staff they use during their construction operations throughout Thailand that could be temporarily diverted to help. i have heard no mention of their involvement, except for the four Chinese caught trying to remove documents.

How do they know if the offender is a tourist, since he hasn’t been traced yet? He could be a permanent resident, or a citizen. Very quick to blame here without establishing the facts.

The wet surface is not the problem, it is the excessive speed for the conditions and possibly the physical condition of the bus that is. Like lots of things here, the surface appearance of the vehicle is deemed far more important than the underlying mechanics and frame. The latter can have been rebodied repeatedly. Time for the Government to forget about posturing for car scrappage schemes and set about encouraging the manufacture of new buses and the scrapping and breaking up of the old ones. Training and regulation of drivers could also be overhauled if they want to raise Thailand’s reputation as a safe holiday destination.

Maybe it could be sold to the State Audit Office as their new HQ, kill two birds with one stone.

When you have dealt with as many collisions as I did in my former career and watched non-seat belt wearers die , you don’t need any convincing to make you and your passengers wear seat belts. for all the know-alls whinging about fire, drowning etc, these sort of incidents are very rare and account in most countries for less than 5% of collisions. You stand a much better chance of survival and escape if you are wearing your belt when it collides and catches fire or enters the water.

If fuelled by petrol or gas, there is always a strong risk of fire. There should be some regulation mandating the use of diesel or other less flammable fuel when passengers are carried. Proper risk management.

I would have thought that there are many jobs in the military eg admin, catering, medic, driver etc etc that a ladyboy or woman could do even if the Army are not ready for them to be combat troops. I see no reason to exempt either category from the draft.

Possibly a dry run with a stolen bag to cast suspicion on the Chinese owner.

Modern coaches have deceleration devices to assist long descents without excessive use of the brakes. Also early change down of gears by a competent driver will assist deceleration. Unfortunately both modern coaches and competent drivers are in a minority in Thailand.

Even the rich cannot control their greed.