Vehicles emitting black smoke to face fine up to Bt5,000, department warns

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Department director-general Jirut Wisanjit said on Sunday that the maximum would be Bt5,000 and suspension of vehicle use until it was fixed.

5,000 baht is not a heavy fine...

Impound the vehicle until the owner arranges a garage to pick it up to be serviced.

After the service police can check it before being released back to the owner.

Fines do not take vehicles of the road !!!!

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

What about farmers....cough....cough

That's another issue.

[keystonecoppers2]

                                      So, now we have a hotline so we can become squelers!

                                      And they (highway patrol) can just sit back with their 

                                      phones in their AC huts and doing nothing, as usual. 

                                      Another joke of the day. Keep it coming. I like to start

                                      my day with a joke and the news here never let me down!

                                      

 

                                               Cheers!

[Lacessit]

If there was actual enforcement across Thailand, it would fix budgetary problems and some of the air pollution simultaneously. Win-win. As I've seen a smoke belcher at a testing station get a pass mark after some money changed hands, permit me to doubt it will happen.

To the south of Thailand, there is Malaysia. In my visits there, I have yet to see any vehicle which blew smoke. Cars, pickups, buses, trucks - none.

Perish the thought Thais should ask the Malaysians how they do it, the loss of face would be too much to bear.

[thailand49]

No comment don't want to come across as Thai Bashing.????

[SuwadeeS]

There are two options.

1. Option believe it.

2. Option don't believe it.

 

Since I do know from some other people, they never received one single Baht from the Motercycle on sidewalk crack down. I do not believe anything. They said, if somebody reports on a homepage with evidence picture and location the motorcycle, the will get 1000 Baht.

I asked many people, who did that. Nobody got ever a Baht.

 

So this with the black smoke, will end up the same.

[AhFarangJa]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

As for vehicles that emit high volume of black smoke but do not exceed the safety limit, the department issues warnings to the owners and urges them to inspect their vehicle condition and make sure they were properly maintained.

 

So, what exactly is the safety limit !!!! I would have thought ANY HIGH VOLUME of black smoke exceeds a safety limit,

[AhFarangJa]

Why do I get this feeling of Deja-vu.............I am sure I read a similar headline last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that.......and the year before that........and the year before that, and the year ..................

[connda]

Knowing how thing work here, how can anyone not be totally cynical.

[Boombum]

What about Mid /Dark Grey Smoke ?  Mmm 

I always wonder what the Interpretions and definitions are... ?

[SiamRead]

4 hours ago, djayz said:

Hope they start with the (state owned?) buses. 

But most of the State owned buses runs on NGV. 

[connda]

Just now, connda said:

Knowing how thing work here, how can anyone not be totally cynical.

I know.  The state patrol and all the police patrol car officers will pull over offending vehicles and issue them tickets.  ????

But...hummm, they don't have state patrol and police patrol cars with officers driving in traffic and looking for moving violations.  That animal doesn't exist in this country.  Just VIP escort vehicles. 

[DaLa]

3 hours ago, herwin1234 said:

Despite the usual cynical responses from the forum farang, this new law is just great and shows that the Thais have put the environment on its agenda. Last years anti single use plastic bag ban worked out fine, and so will this new ban on black smoke puffing cars. It might take a while though but now at least the police can legaly do something against these polluters.

Bags back at Tesco.

[jwbrit]

Better to have a program that helps them pay for fixing the vehicle. Piston ring job is expensive. After a fine they won't have money to fix the vehicle anyway. Only the police trust fund wins.

[rwill]

More than fining the drivers they should be fining the shops that sign off on their emission test.

[newnative]

If a vehicle is emitting a high level of black smoke but does not exceed the safety limit then something is seriously wrong with the safety limit.  

[crickets]

Great......when are they going to figure out its the sugar cane farmers causing the problems.... not the cars.

[Mike k]

8 hours ago, transam said:

Blimey, that will be a nice little earner up my way, they can do the no crash hat, kids riding motorbikes, no lights on bikes and cars too whilst they're at it...

If it's anything like where I live it will never happen ????

[jdlhalliday]

AGAIN ??  It is the same every year but the police lose interest after a few days. 

The worst  offenders are old unroadworthy buses and trucks. But police do nothing about them. Same as they turn a blind eye to motorcycles belching black smoke. 

[Bobydog]

Have any of you folk ridden behind a diesel powered vehicle/ 4WD when its accelerating?  and wondered about the exhaust smoke?  So I  guess that,  given the bubble gum mindset of the powers that be,  all diesel powered vehicles are to be banned. Beam me up Scotty.

[Seeall]

there it is... 95%,, however.....  we all know why  ..........

[dallen52]

Its really laughable, but serious.

About $230 Australian dollars. 

 

When you see the state of the vehicles going over the pits at DLT and parts missing, broken lights, worn tyres..

It's just a knee-jerk reaction. 

[dallen52]

6 hours ago, CLW said:

Don't these people feel any shame or being object of ridicule repeating the same drizzle every three months?

This administration is an insult to any Thai citizen with slightest intelligence.

Have they solved or at least reduced any of the issues they are coming up regularly?

- Drunk driving

- Speeding

- no helmet / seatbelt

- no driver licence

- illegal burning

- motorcycle on footpath

- drought / flooding

- alcoholism / drug abuse (Meth!!!)

- corruption (Lol, don't wet your pants but five years ago Prayuth promised to eliminate corruption during his reign)

The very same man who last week said he will fix illegal gambling. 

By making it legal...

 

Too easy isn't it?

[bimmerbob]

9 hours ago, WineOh said:

repeating the same old rhetoric time after time does not make it so.

What's the point in announcing these fines if there is nobody on the streets that will enforce them?

 

 

If only they could introduce incentives to enforcement, then I visualise the streets crawling with enforcers!

 

[skippybangkok]

Start with BMTA busses first 

 

someone in the know said it’s from sugar cane burning up north , which makes sense when we get northerly winds

[davemos]

They might start with Government buses.Ive see heaps of red buses  spewing black smoke .Then maybe a higher tax on diesel ? 

[Time to grow]

10 hours ago, transam said:

Blimey, that will be a nice little earner up my way, they can do the no crash hat, kids riding motorbikes, no lights on bikes and cars too whilst they're at it...

 

Maybe they could check for drivers licenses too, or is that going too far?

[jdlhalliday]

10 minutes ago, skippybangkok said:

Start with BMTA busses first 

 

someone in the know said it’s from sugar cane burning up north , which makes sense when we get northerly winds

Sugar cane and farmers burning off the rice stubble after they have harvested the rice. It is quite common to see the sky lit up at night with the glow from all the fires. The police obviously know the culprits but do nothing .

[sirineou]

8 minutes ago, jdlhalliday said:

Sugar cane and farmers burning off the rice stubble after they have harvested the rice. It is quite common to see the sky lit up at night with the glow from all the fires. The police obviously know the culprits but do nothing .

It is true, but until there is a different and economically viable option  there is very little that can be done other than eliminate rice production. 

[berton]

9 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The only time I see one, is if they are sitting next to an air conditioned kiosk on the highway, with the cop inside either playing with his phone, or killing time, or beside the road at the scene of an accident. Otherwise, they do not patrol! So, how are they going to issue tickets? 

it's not true. Where are you living?

Many crossroads of  major roads (yowarat, raminthra...) in Bkk have a police control. 

highways to go out have points to control vehicles : usually vans, trucks for transported products , licenses of burmese drivers..and some car drivers . After 23h; in Bkk and outside for alcool.

But I partially agree that police dont do 100% his job : why? because they don't want to be totally under control of a government who fight with their little traffics . So they do the minimum...

I think that this new decision will not be following by police (10-20% to show some results..) .

For environement ,the best is the wonderfull train station Bangsue which willl open in september or november (hua lompong  will close). The biggest trainstation in southeast asiatic . Why?

because finally the money for this monumental project: Bangsue trainstation+ doubling the railway line that millions of thai people were waiting since 30 years  comes to the good place: pay all companies for make a 2nd line from BKK to hat yai + bridges to cross this new double lines : congratulations to the governement and more than 600 companies ...it's not finish but we can see how advanced it is. All previous government : project was frozen ,money desappears ...now train fom 1920 will go to scrap !