Its Started..........

[skippybangkok]

Driving up eastern ring road this morning...... saw a Toyota Vios/grey colour parked on the side of the road. felt it was sus............... 5 k's further, exact same type of car, also parked on the side........... just like Oz.

sure enough, at the Toll booth tons of cops pulling over people ( i was doing 115, so obviously thats fine - so far)

FYI

[MoonRiverOasis]

Old news - Thai police have had radar for several years now - I know, I've been the victm of it dozens of times

This April just gone, I got caught 3x in a single day - and all in different provinces too.

200 Baht at the window normally gets you back on the road pretty quickly..

[phutoie2]

Not in my case, be warned provincial police in Petchabun city have new radar equipment, using it on the Route 21 a few KM's before the city limit so plenty of folk speeding along. Confiscated my Thai licence and said I had to go to the police station to pay 300 Baht.

I offered the English speaking Thai cop 500 Baht, he just shouted at me "No, -go Police station now"

One of the few honest one's about!

They must had hundreds in that day.

Edited June 30, 2010 by phutoie2

[aussiebebe]

Thai police use of radar guns in stationary cars to catch speeding motorists was reported in the BK post early last year, I think, February, probably before. Having to pay a police fine, or bribe, tarnishes Thailand's reputation still further, but the real war against speeding motorists is usually won by gratuitous use of speed humps and those white rumble-strips. There are some roads with five sets of such strips consecutively, it's beyond madness, but keeps the car dealerships in business. The only reason I'd be interested in test-driving a small car like a Jazz or March is to see how they can possibly cope with such ferocious, jarring strips.

[katabeachbum]

Caught by radar first time in 2005 with my Fortuner outside Kings residence in Hua Hin. Caught several times since then, mostly in Chumporn and Prechuap. Past three years also by laser.

Significant difference on these proper speed checks with radar/laser. Bunch of Bib, one approach and says you where driving 162kmh, I say yes, pay fine to clerk including providing name for mum and dad, and pay 200 with official reciept.

The highwayrobberbib (2-3 bib)usually say you where driving 130, I say no, can I see your lisence, I say no cause I was not driving 130 ( I was driving 140-160), give them 200 and go.

[VocalNeal]

Caught by radar first time in 2005 with my Fortuner outside Kings residence in Hua Hin. Caught several times since then, mostly in Chumporn and Prechuap. Past three years also by laser.

Significant difference on these proper speed checks with radar/laser. Bunch of Bib, one approach and says you where driving 162kmh, I say yes, pay fine to clerk including providing name for mum and dad, and pay 200 with official reciept.

The highwayrobberbib (2-3 bib)usually say you where driving 130, I say no, can I see your lisence, I say no cause I was not driving 130 ( I was driving 140-160), give them 200 and go.

There is a camera or camera car used on Hwy 35 and 4. Two friends got a 400B photo in the mail in the last couple of months. One Phetchaburi? the other Samut Songkran? ( ? is for spelling) Can probably dig up one picture if anyone has not seen one.

If you see any cars coming the otherway flashing their headlights that is usually what it is. Used to happen on Don Muang expressway until usage went down because of toll increase. Maybe that is where the cars/radar/cameras are from?

Edited June 30, 2010 by VocalNeal

[WarpSpeed]

Caught by radar first time in 2005 with my Fortuner outside Kings residence in Hua Hin. Caught several times since then, mostly in Chumporn and Prechuap. Past three years also by laser.

Significant difference on these proper speed checks with radar/laser. Bunch of Bib, one approach and says you where driving 162kmh, I say yes, pay fine to clerk including providing name for mum and dad, and pay 200 with official reciept.

The highwayrobberbib (2-3 bib)usually say you where driving 130, I say no, can I see your lisence, I say no cause I was not driving 130 ( I was driving 140-160), give them 200 and go.

There is a camera or camera car used on Hwy 35 and 4. Two friends got a 400B photo in the mail in the last couple of months. One Phetchaburi? the other Samut Songkran? ( ? is for spelling) Can probably dig up one picture if anyone has not seen one.

If you see any cars coming the otherway flashing their headlights that is usually what it is. Used to happen on Don Muang expressway until usage went down because of toll increase. Maybe that is where the cars/radar/cameras are from?

Don Muang Xway as well others have had cameras for ages located high up on poles, usually those are not stills though and only get you if they have a detail going on at the next set of toll booths where they pull you over and fine you and since it's well monitored no roadside fines to be paid. I got caught once years ago and had to go to the local highway police station to get my license back and 500b fine (the station not so local either). The officer in charge was sitting outside the station like a god father with a few other thugs........ Ermm, I mean officers sitting around him and you paid him there and then suddenly poof! As if by magic there's my license but no receipt or anything else very unofficial like...

JFYI It's not standard practice for them to require you to go to the station and pick up your license, besides the tea money they do have the legal option of collecting roadside fines so not all is tea money necessarily just because you paid them roadside . Anyway I guess I need to repair my ciggie lighter now and dust off my old radar detector I've had for years so I get used to the local false signals and learn the roads here now too, I had played with it a couple of times recently when renting a car and even in the city here it really goes off very seldom with false signals like it used to back home, so should be a plus having it. Definitely time to go home then as that freedom was one, if not the only one still keeping me here.. Having said that though it's still far less problematic and costly here when this does happen except having to track your license down if it's been confiscated...

[kevkev1888]

Caught by radar first time in 2005 with my Fortuner outside Kings residence in Ha Hon. Caught several times since then, mostly in Chumporn and Prechuap. Past three years also by laser.

Significant difference on these proper speed checks with radar/laser. Bunch of Bib, one approach and says you where driving 162kmh, I say yes, pay fine to clerk including providing name for mum and dad, and pay 200 with official reciept.

The highwayrobberbib (2-3 bib)usually say you where driving 130, I say no, can I see your lisence, I say no cause I was not driving 130 ( I was driving 140-160), give them 200 and go.

You sound like the typical Fortuner owner, unfortunately!

[katabeachbum]

Caught by radar first time in 2005 with my Fortuner outside Kings residence in Ha Hon. Caught several times since then, mostly in Chumporn and Prechuap. Past three years also by laser.

Significant difference on these proper speed checks with radar/laser. Bunch of Bib, one approach and says you where driving 162kmh, I say yes, pay fine to clerk including providing name for mum and dad, and pay 200 with official reciept.

The highwayrobberbib (2-3 bib)usually say you where driving 130, I say no, can I see your lisence, I say no cause I was not driving 130 ( I was driving 140-160), give them 200 and go.

You sound like the typical Fortuner owner, unfortunately!

Fortuner to slow, so replaced it with 2007 Camry late 2006.

First time bib pulled me and my GF over in Camry, she got really pissed. Why TF would we spend money on a +200 km/h car if we cant cruise 160? They let us go:jap:

[Lumumba]

Somedays I make return bkk chiangmai trips, I just pay the first 200 with official receipt and then flash the copy and another 100 to any concerned law man till i am back home.

Bangna-chonburi elevated tollway, once I am past the toll/card booth, its 'catch me me if you can'.

During the holidays when cops lay siege all over the land, i usually do midnight trips, they dont hang around the Tarred surface after 11pm.

I once ran into radar at wang noi on my way to to petchebun, the english speaking cop was hostile, collected 1000 fine and wrote 200 in words on the receipt., Any way s I dont go to petchebun anymore, wife then was bad luck. She is now making an Aussie's life a miserable experience.