Department Of Highways Releases Trucking Regulations

[Jai Dee]

Department of Highways releases trucking regulations

The Department of Highways has come up with regulations forbidding the operation of vehicles with a large tonnage, with a large cargo tonnage, or a large concentrated axle tonnage.

Mr. Satit Paksripang, deputy governor of Loei province, announced the set regulations regarding truck weights allowed on the road which has taken effect since January 1 of this year. Regulations will cover four wheel trucks with 2 axles with a gross tonnage of no more than 9.5 tonnes, six wheel turcks with 2 axles with a gross tonnage of no more than 15 tonnes, ten wheel trucks with 3 axles with a gross tonnage of no more than 25 tonnes, and 12 wheel trucks with 4 axles gross tonnage no more than 30 tonnes.

Mr. Satit added that the Department of Highway would also regulate 18 wheeler semi rigs with 5 axles with a gross tonnage of no more than 45 tonnes, 22 wheeler semi rigs with 6 axles with a gross tonnage of no more than 50.5 tonnes, 18 wheeler rigs with a gross tonnage of no more than 47 tonnes, and 22 wheeler rigs with a gross tonnage of no more than 53 tonnes.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 09 March 2006

[astral]

Great in principle, but how do they plan to enforce it?

A few years back there were Weigh Stations on all the major highways

and lorries were required to report in an check the weight.

All those stations are long gone.

TIT I guess.

[bino]

Great in principle, but how do they plan to enforce it?

A few years back there were Weigh Stations on all the major highways

and lorries were required to report in an check the weight.

All those stations are long gone.

TIT I guess.

Weigh stations are still in use.

If you drive from Ayutthaya to Bangkok, you actually pass three of them. One is at the entrance to Vipavadee Rangsit road, and the other two are at the expressway ramps.

There is also a weigh station on the #7 Chonburi motorway, going to Pattaya.

[RamdomChances]

Anyone driving overlaoded knows where the fixed weigh bridges are so just avoides them. If you are on a fixed route, just slip an envelope to each police box on the route, with 100 bhat in it and your reg number and you'll be very unlikly to get stopped.

Sometimes you see loads of lorrys parked on the side of the road, this is often because the transport police(not the regular ones) have set up a road block, so every one just parks up about 400 meters from it locks the lorry and sits around waiting for them to go home (you have to get out of the lorry so they cant put an owner/driver to it). There's very rarly any stops at night so thats an other fav time.

RC

[opothai]

impoving the safety on overloading is a stsrt but the condition of the roads and the amount of hours the drivers put in, and driving standards would be on top of the list of things to do imho