Video: Ten wheel trucks speeding on the wrong side of the road - 2,000 baht fines and chicken excuse

[webfact]

Video: Ten wheel trucks speeding on the wrong side of the road - 2,000 baht fines and chicken excuse

 

Picture: Manager Online

 

Footage from a tour bus in Kanchanaburi showed some of the clearest evidence yet why there is road carnage in Thailand.

 

Two ten wheel trucks were at first filmed by staff on a tour bus weaving all over the Sankhaburi to Kanchanaburi Road.

 

Then, incredibly, rather than wait for a U-turn the two drivers race along on the wrong side of the road for a full kilometer before getting to their turn off.

 

After the video received much adverse comment online, Manager reported that both trucks were from the same company based in Lam Lukka, Pathum Thani.

 

Following the incident on June 2nd a representative of the company took the drivers - Winai and Samruay - to meet with the Land Transport Department in Kanchanaburi.

 

They were both fined 2,000 baht each and had their details taken.

 

In an effort at mitigation they said they were in a hurry to pick up chickens to take them to the abattoir in Lam Lukka.

 

Source: Manager Online

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-06-06

 

[darksidedog]

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

In an effort at mitigation they said they were in a hurry to pick up chickens to take them to the abattoir

I think the chickens could have held on for a few minutes more. And the fact that this sort of thing is considered by many drivers to be perfectly acceptable, does help explain the amount of very nasty accidents.

[keith101]

An everyday occurrence anywhere and anytime here in Thailand nothing new really and wont change unless more drivers and companies are fined such as these two have been , buses and tourist coaches are doing the exact same thing .

[Happy Grumpy]

Same on almost every road.... just this is a difference in vehicle size.

 

Around here it's all the motosais, rather wait in the middle of junctions, speed across 3 lanes of on coming traffic, go around a u-turn the wrong way, then pull out into the fast lane of the road they want.... instead of turning left, riding 100 meters to the proper u-turn and using that.

 

 

Or they stop in the fast-lane 50 meters before the u-turn, then drive over the pedestrian ramp and into the fast lane of the road they want.

 

 

I'm sure they consider doing it the proper way as being stupid! ?

 

No matter what it is.... if there's a shortcut available, the Thai is taking it. Not taking the short-cut is stupid as it's disadvantageous. 

[bluesofa]

24 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I think the chickens could have held on for a few minutes more. And the fact that this sort of thing is considered by many drivers to be perfectly acceptable, does help explain the amount of very nasty accidents.

Yes, I think the company should sack the pluckers.

 

[prakhonchai nick]

Should have been 20,000baht fine and loss of licence for minimum 5 years

[transam]

They have probably done that on every trip.....

 

No BiB, no ploblem....

[dcsw53]

3 hours ago, keith101 said:

unless more drivers and companies are fined such as these two have been

THB 2000 and a couple of wais to the authorities. Useless, the deterrent needs to be realistic. These guys could easily have killed someone, on an average traffic road it would have. THB 10,000 minimum and licence revoked for a month.

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, prakhonchai nick said:

Should have been 20,000baht fine and loss of licence for minimum 5 years

Agreed - the fines where life threatening actions have occurred need to be severe and significant enough such that the idea of carrying out such careless, dangerous and anti-social behavior on the roads (or anywhere else) is immediately quashed. 

 

Only when the consequences for the perpetrators of such actions are far greater than the perceived benefit of such (i.e. taking short cuts etc) will there be any notable change. 

[peperobi]

Nice absolutely nice! 2,000 Baht fine??? Is a joke, driver license away for three months and two weeks social work.

 

[gandalf12]

48 minutes ago, dcsw53 said:

THB 2000 and a couple of wais to the authorities. Useless, the deterrent needs to be realistic. These guys could easily have killed someone, on an average traffic road it would have. THB 10,000 minimum and licence revoked for a month.

Fine the company Baht 100000 and the driver Baht 50000 plus 6 months in jail. (You cant revoke a license he probably doesnt have)

[Jonnapat]

1 hour ago, dcsw53 said:

THB 2000 and a couple of wais to the authorities. Useless, the deterrent needs to be realistic. These guys could easily have killed someone, on an average traffic road it would have. THB 10,000 minimum and licence revoked for a month.

Not nearly enough for this life endangering act

[hotchilli]

And they wonder why it continues!!!!!

The fines & excuses are both laughable... actually they're pathetic!!!

Nothing will change until the fines drive them off the roads.. drivers should have been heavily fined with licences revoked & the company fined a suitable amount that might change their minds about who they employ!!!

[Briggsy]

Whilst I agree the fines are paltry (poultry ha ha), they are probably the maximum fine for the offence with which the pair of wannabe 10-year-olds were charged. The alternative was probably a prison sentence.

 

Dysfunctional system not in any way designed to make roads safer.

[connda]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

They were both fined 2,000 baht each and had their details taken.

There is no downside to breaking the law and endangering the public.  In a Western country both the drivers and the company would be monkey-hammered in fines and possible jail time.

[manhood]

All these nasty drivers get a fine that is to laugh; even the chickens laugh loud!

the fine muste be 100.000 bath and confiscate the driver licences for EVER!!!!!!

[Golden Triangle]

What absolute codswallop, 2000 baht fine and details taken !!! I should be speechless but after 7 years I'm not even surprised 

[Janner1]

On 6/6/2018 at 6:08 PM, connda said:

There is no downside to breaking the law and endangering the public.  In a Western country both the drivers and the company would be monkey-hammered in fines and possible jail time.

Agreed but this is Thailand where life is cheap, the hi so bosses are not driving the trucks and you can not educate PORK