illegal to transport my scooter in pick-up

[speedtripler]

Think if you paid the toll for your pick up AND bike, you should be home-free!

I paid for both, got pulled over, showed papers and toll receipt, no issues.

Maybe rules have changed?

Don't contribute/troll the problem unless you've got a solution!!

You pay toll for the car that uses the road, the rate is according to the number of wheels of the vehicle.

If you pay for cargo if the cargo includes wheels you are being fooled, but it's always worth a try for the police to get some extra lunch off a farang.

Next time you will be asked to pay for the spare tire too ;-)

thats wrong

any bikes being transported in a pickup must be covered

use an old bed sheet and that will be fine if its tied over properly and they will let you go free

[NomadJoe]

i got stopped on my way back from hua hin going to udon thani about 7 years ago , my airblade was tied down tight but no net over the back of pickup , just as i entered bangkok

at the time i thought it was bullsh1t but payed up because i needed to get home , seems its still going on .

It's a silly law, but it is the law and not a scam. Take a look sometime at Thai's moving anything in the back of a pick-up. Always covered regardless of what it is.

[NomadJoe]

Each time I go through the Ploenchit toll both at the weekend I get fined for driving whilst in possession of a white face. Last time it was 'not waiting for a green light before turning right from Sukhumvit'(<deleted>!).

Just the usual teamoney nonsense.

I don't understand. You are complaining that you got a ticket for running a red light?

[NomadJoe]

When in doubt ask for a ticket. Soon becomes clear if the are trying it on...

If it is a real infringement then they'll write one up.

Usually true but not always true.

I had a cop ask me what I wanted written on the ticket! He wanted me to pay cash. I insisted on the ticket. Neither of us knew whether the 'offence' he came up is actually on the books. He settled on the rather vague upakorn mai khrop.

Back to the OP. The problem is the expressway, motorways and tollways. Stay off them and you'll have no problems.

Good on you for not paying. I have never and will never pay a bribe here. We all get away with murder on the roads here. The occasional inconvenience is acceptable. I've actually only been fined once for no helmet about 12 years ago.

[speedtripler]

i got stopped on my way back from hua hin going to udon thani about 7 years ago , my airblade was tied down tight but no net over the back of pickup , just as i entered bangkok

at the time i thought it was bullsh1t but payed up because i needed to get home , seems its still going on .

It's a silly law, but it is the law and not a scam. Take a look sometime at Thai's moving anything in the back of a pick-up. Always covered regardless of what it is.

its not really a silly law ,some horrific accidents have happened to people traveling in other vehicles

gust of wind or a bump and a plank of wood could go through the windscreen of the vehicle travelling behind at 140 kmh etc

theres a video on youtube of it actually happening .........

[nithisa78]

mate, thats news to me, how in the hell are you supposed to take it anywhere then if it isnt rideable. We have taken ours in the back plenty of times, we tie it off so it is solid and cant move and off we go, in fact we have seen shitloads of others doing the same thing, especially when they go away on holidays. Salavan, have the feeling you have been ripped off here, would love to know what rule of law they are using especially when you see how high the idiots doing long transport runs stack their pick ups. Isnt that what the back of a pick up is for, for you to put things in you need to transport it, looks like you were used for tea money, really needed to get them to tell you what law you broke.

update, wife just told me it is fine on normal roads but on expressways/tollroads you are not allowed to have anything in the back(even people) unless the back is covered over, hope this helps.

Correct, not on the expressways/tollroads.

[recycler]

Think if you paid the toll for your pick up AND bike, you should be home-free!

I paid for both, got pulled over, showed papers and toll receipt, no issues.

Maybe rules have changed?

Don't contribute/troll the problem unless you've got a solution!!

You pay toll for the car that uses the road, the rate is according to the number of wheels of the vehicle.

If you pay for cargo if the cargo includes wheels you are being fooled, but it's always worth a try for the police to get some extra lunch off a farang.

Next time you will be asked to pay for the spare tire too ;-)

thats wrong

any bikes being transported in a pickup must be covered

use an old bed sheet and that will be fine if its tied over properly and they will let you go free

So after lunch they got tea money out of you ;-)

There is no way you can be legally charged for a vehicle that is cargo, you pay for the vehicle that uses the road. Next to that motorcycles are not allowed on tollways in Thailand, so there isn't even a rate for them. Just imagine the company that transports motorcycles from the factory, or the car carriers transporting Toyota's, Ford's etc. to the port do you think they pay for all vehicles on the back.... you're a farang and you are taken for a "toll"ride!

[speedtripler]

Think if you paid the toll for your pick up AND bike, you should be home-free!

I paid for both, got pulled over, showed papers and toll receipt, no issues.

Maybe rules have changed?

Don't contribute/troll the problem unless you've got a solution!!

You pay toll for the car that uses the road, the rate is according to the number of wheels of the vehicle.

If you pay for cargo if the cargo includes wheels you are being fooled, but it's always worth a try for the police to get some extra lunch off a farang.

Next time you will be asked to pay for the spare tire too ;-)

thats wrong

any bikes being transported in a pickup must be covered

use an old bed sheet and that will be fine if its tied over properly and they will let you go free

So after lunch they got tea money out of you ;-)

There is no way you can be legally charged for a vehicle that is cargo, you pay for the vehicle that uses the road. Next to that motorcycles are not allowed on tollways in Thailand, so there isn't even a rate for them. Just imagine the company that transports motorcycles from the factory, or the car carriers transporting Toyota's, Ford's etc. to the port do you think they pay for all vehicles on the back.... you're a farang and you are taken for a "toll"ride!

ive seen it in black and white and i wasnt even driving the pickup ,

it was a thai national and were transporting bikes to the track

so your farang bs is literally bs

i believe your also supposed to have a copy of the greenbooks of any bikes being transported

to verify you havent just stolen them etc

nobody is talking about truckloads of new vehicles from the factory etc so stop trying to worm your way out

this thread is about items in the openback of a pickup ,and YES ,THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A COVER OVER THEM

[salavan]

mate, thats news to me, how in the hell are you supposed to take it anywhere then if it isnt rideable. We have taken ours in the back plenty of times, we tie it off so it is solid and cant move and off we go, in fact we have seen shitloads of others doing the same thing, especially when they go away on holidays. Salavan, have the feeling you have been ripped off here, would love to know what rule of law they are using especially when you see how high the idiots doing long transport runs stack their pick ups. Isnt that what the back of a pick up is for, for you to put things in you need to transport it, looks like you were used for tea money, really needed to get them to tell you what law you broke.

update, wife just told me it is fine on normal roads but on expressways/tollroads you are not allowed to have anything in the back(even people) unless the back is covered over, hope this helps.

i think you wife is correct thats what the plolice told my wife

[edwinchester]

I got pulled over a couple of years ago and fined for stuff in the pickup that wasn't covered. I was actually shown what looked like an official document that showed how things should be carried in a pickup bed. The theme seemed to be that everything had to be covered up, even the bikes.

[recycler]

ive seen it in black and white and i wasnt even driving the pickup ,

it was a thai national and were transporting bikes to the track

so your farang bs is literally bs

i believe your also supposed to have a copy of the greenbooks of any bikes being transported

to verify you havent just stolen them etc

nobody is talking about truckloads of new vehicles from the factory etc so stop trying to worm your way out

this thread is about items in the openback of a pickup ,and YES ,THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A COVER OVER THEM

That's a different matter, you can be fined for not securing your cargo properly. That's a fine, not toll.

Actually they should be more strict on that, even complete cargo containers fall off trucks regularly killing instantly!