Exactly what I was going to write about. Even after more than 10 years of living in Thailand, I still don't understand why they keep calling these kind of vehicles (trucks, pick-ups) “school buses”, they are just vehicles repurposed to “poorly and unsafely” carry people (students, workers, soldiers, etc). Sadly no one cares about the safety of the passengers and these kinds of accidents continue happening.
Even when they use real “passenger vans” they overload them making them equally dangerous…sadly I believe that this is not going to change…ever…😥😥