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Phuket officials vow to crack down on operators renting bikes to unlicenced tourists


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4 hours ago, DrDave said:

A similar crackdown on renting bikes to unlicensed renters a few years back lasted only a few days until everything was back to "normal".

For a time, the BiB had a checkpoint at the northern end of the beach road in Patong where they'd nab tourists who had just rented bikes down the road, fining them for no license and/or no helmet. Seems like it would have been fairly lucrative, I wonder why they stopped?

Their sack was overflowing.......?

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About time to really clamp down on the hire shops NATION WIDE and give them a real fine where it hurts + confiscate the bike for a week.

If they really stopped the hiring of M/C to unlicensed riders then imo 75% of their business would dry up and we know that won't ever be 'allowed' to happen.

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1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

About time to really clamp down on the hire shops NATION WIDE and give them a real fine where it hurts + confiscate the bike for a week.

If they really stopped the hiring of M/C to unlicensed riders then imo 75% of their business would dry up and we know that won't ever be 'allowed' to happen.

Hence you have answered the reason your suggestion is a Non-Starter (excuse the Pun) 555

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they have to have the balls to crack down on the locals not following the laws, tourists look at local driving without helmets (often straight passed the police), driving the wrong way on roads etc and just assume it must be ok. Looking around most locals have stopped abiding by the laws, the police don't enforce the rules on locals, and tourists will start doing the same.

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