Black smoke: Officials and police cracking down on vehicle emissions as new regulations loom

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Picture: INN

 

INN reported that the director of the Department of Pollution Control, Department of Land Transport and traffic police were out in force on Rama 2 Road in western Bangkok yesterday as a crackdown on vehicle emissions began.

 

Attaphol Charoenchansa noted that one of the main causes of pollution from PM2.5 matter between October and March were vehicles spewing out black smoke. 

 

INN didn't explain why in the rest of the year this didn't seem to matter so much. 

 

20 checkpoints have been set up on main and secondary roads in the Thai capital and a further 15 are in place in surrounding provinces.

 

From 13th June 2022 rules on acceptable emissions levels are being tightened up.

 

Levels of 45% and 50% will in future be readjusted to 30% and 40% limits. 

 

Total number of vehicle owners in Bangkok fined in 2021 has been 211,560 with 1,589 vehicles ordered off the roads.  

 

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[CrunchWrapSupreme]

This has been a trend among diesel truck fans. I imagine they got it from America. There it's called "rolling coal". They modify the trucks to produce more smoke, then even go as far as putting an upward exhaust pipe that looks like a smokestack. CHOO-CHOO!

[DavisH]

5000 baht fine for the owner and 5000 baht fine for the garage that modified the vehicle. Trucks can easily be modified for more power and still minimise smoke output. 

They could make it 0 emmissions but nothing would change as none of the rules are strictly enforced. 

[Robin]

A " CRACKDOWN"  Rouge truck drivers must be scared to death.

[joloit]

So there is communication between departments after all?? WOW!!

[Will B Good]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Total number of vehicle owners in Bangkok fined in 2021 has been 211,560 with 1,589 vehicles ordered off the roads.

So 21,000 polluting cars were allowed to remain on the road spewing out their pollution?

[Liverpool Lou]

42 minutes ago, Robin said:

A " CRACKDOWN"  Rouge truck drivers must be scared to death.

"Rouge"?   Katoey truck drivers always fixing their makeup, you mean?

Edited November 18, 2021 by Liverpool Lou

[Will B Good]

3 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Rouge"?   Katoey truck drivers always fixing their makeup, you mean?

Might be reddle men......Digger Venn types.

[toofarnorth]

16 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Rouge"?   Katoey truck drivers always fixing their makeup, you mean?

I was thinking what about trucks that are not red.

[johng]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Attaphol Charoenchansa noted that one of the main causes of pollution from PM2.5 matter between October and March were vehicles spewing out black smoke. 

Yes good to get the smokey vehicles off the roads but no mention of the decrepit public transport buses still in use in BKK spewing their black smoke  as always for years on end ( LPG buses still stuck in customs ? )

an no mention of the crop and forest fires !

[Benmart]

More blah, blah, blah. Corruption enables many forbidden areas to flourish with impunity.

[dlclark97]

So many cars and pickups are detuned for performance and that can creates heavy exhaust smoke under load.  Static testing, although it may help a little probably will not detect the levels of pollutants emitted when the vehicle is under load or hard acceleration.  Recently, a vehicle accelerating in front of me emitted such heavy smoke it turned my automatic wipers on. 

[Aussieroaming]

Same story every year, crackdown on emmissions. End result, no change to the smog and pollution. Nearly every Bangkok bus should be off the road, they are diesel spewing, noise polluting, rust buckets. 

 

Its not just the trucks, its the pick ups to and the already mentioned buses. 

 

And when finished with them, what about the rural burn offs and forest fires.

 

Phase two will be re-initiation of the useless water sprays that do nothing about the problem except burnibg more diesel.

[AhFarangJa]

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

So 21,000 polluting cars were allowed to remain on the road spewing out their pollution?

No, 210,000 still on the road...............However, do we really believe the 1500 ordered off the road are actually not being driven around right now.

[Will B Good]

Just now, AhFarangJa said:

No, 210,000 still on the road...............However, do we really believe the 1500 ordered off the road are actually not being driven around right now.

Whoops....my bad......I used the online version of the TAT calculator.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Attaphol Charoenchansa noted that one of the main causes of pollution from PM2.5 matter between October and March were vehicles spewing out black smoke. 

Another crackdown... hubba hubba hub of crackdowns.

[ikke1959]

Today I went from Phetchaburi to Hua Hin and back... at least 10 cars with black smoke...... even where the police were sitting in the policeboxes and nothing happened... 

[Southy65]

But what about the rest of Thailand ? Here in Hua hin and Cha am that is now open for tourist and on the open blue list it is like driving through a burning cole mine. So I ask why not putting in a combined evert and clean up the whole Thailand and get rid of this droped loud ilegal trucks that never see the inside of a Garage to get serviced.

[Lopchan]

6 hours ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

This has been a trend among diesel truck fans. I imagine they got it from America. There it's called "rolling coal". They modify the trucks to produce more smoke, then even go as far as putting an upward exhaust pipe that looks like a smokestack. CHOO-CHOO!

Yeah, i've seen the videos as well as daily experience here with the losers that drive these thing..."Look at me, look at me I make big smoke!" Morons here and other nations.

[natway09]

Crackdown my backside.

Only yesterday I saw (sort of) at least 18 pickups put their foot down in front of me 

& then I could not see

Mufti cops on the road, if they are serious

[talahtnut]

How it woks,  the missus get out and talks, and hands go in pockets close

to the side of the vehicle.  Smoke without fire?

[ThailandGuy]

It's about time. And they should do the same for the motorcycles !  All that airpolution should be stopped and banned!

[MadMac]

Well, as long as Somchai burns down everything that can catch fire, who cares about Diesel smoke? Same BS as every year, make some news, don't address the problem and as always, blame someone else.

[KhaoYai]

Crackdown? Where? Maybe in Bangkok.

 

Its a joke - take your car for its annual safety check and see what they do. When I did my car and my bike last the simply stuck the monitor up the exhaust for a few minutes, took it out and carried on.  No figures were noted, the only reason they guy even went back to the machine was to hang the sensor up.

[BostonRob2]

15 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Rouge"?   Katoey truck drivers always fixing their makeup, you mean?

Indeed. I find the idea of truckers with makeup er....without foundation. ????

[Andycoops]

If they start doing those smoking Check points here in Isaan the roads will empty significantly.

 

[Kenneth White]

7 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

Crackdown? Where? Maybe in Bangkok.

 

Its a joke - take your car for its annual safety check and see what they do. When I did my car and my bike last the simply stuck the monitor up the exhaust for a few minutes, took it out and carried on.  No figures were noted, the only reason they guy even went back to the machine was to hang the sensor up.

True, I have seen that myself. Safety checks are a joke.

 

[newnative]

Now on to noisy motorcycles and let's win there.  Not to both, of course.  

[NoshowJones]

Another 24 hour crackdown ????

[KhaoYai]

7 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Another 24 hour crackdown ????

As long as that?

 

Much like the checkpoints around Surin looking for illegals - not manned during lunchtime, after 5pm or when its raining.