Obtaining a Thai drivers license! I MADE IT!

[In Search of Space]

Remember to drive on the last in Thailand

[In Search of Space]

Remember to drive on the left in Thailand, well most of the time

[BigBadGeordie]

Remember to drive on the left in Thailand, well most of the time

Optional!

[duanebigsby]

Or of course you could have just converted your current home license and not have to go through all this.....just saying

Expireitated back in 2006. That's one major crock of poo about US licenses. Once the license has expired you have to recert every endorsement again!

But I sometimes wonder. How would the average Honda Dream trained local driver handle backing up a set of doubles? Throwing the vehicle into a full sideways skid and recovering? Keep that big fat large car smack between the lines down three miles of winding backwater Mississippi roads in the pouring rain? Take it up from a standstill through 16 gears and back without missing a single slot in 1/4 mile while maintaining perfect lane placement? Pay out 2 hoses and a hard suction and place the rig exactly where (you guess) the test officer has decided it should be? Lock all four wheels on dirt at 60 and bring it to a stop without varying more than 2 feet side to side? Take the average city street corner with 75 feet of vehicle?

I'm simply saying, they don't even know what proper vehicle operation is here. But, I suppose that goes along with how they have reinvented the wheel when it comes to designing roads.

My head hurts. Back to bed.

The first paragraph would have sufficed, wasn't interested in a trip down memory lane with the specific intent of trying to prove farangs are superior to Thai

I agree.

OP, Why were you dumb enough to let your license "expireitated"?

You wouldn't have had to "ecert every endorsement again!"

You are trying to make Thais look stupid with your post but it backfires with your own stupidity.

[duanebigsby]

Employing an agent, my combined motorcycle/car licence test consisted of identifying red, green and yellow on a pseudo traffic light - twice, questions asked in English. Based on an International Driving Permit. With agent's fee, 2000 baht.

Thailand is possibly the best training ground I've ever seen for defensive driving - expect the unexpected.

Fantastic how one can bribe someone for a driver's license. Makes me feel safer on the roads already!

[duanebigsby]

Or of course you could have just converted your current home license and not have to go through all this.....just saying

Expireitated back in 2006. That's one major crock of poo about US licenses. Once the license has expired you have to recert every endorsement again!

But I sometimes wonder. How would the average Honda Dream trained local driver handle backing up a set of doubles? Throwing the vehicle into a full sideways skid and recovering? Keep that big fat large car smack between the lines down three miles of winding backwater Mississippi roads in the pouring rain? Take it up from a standstill through 16 gears and back without missing a single slot in 1/4 mile while maintaining perfect lane placement? Pay out 2 hoses and a hard suction and place the rig exactly where (you guess) the test officer has decided it should be? Lock all four wheels on dirt at 60 and bring it to a stop without varying more than 2 feet side to side? Take the average city street corner with 75 feet of vehicle?

I'm simply saying, they don't even know what proper vehicle operation is here. But, I suppose that goes along with how they have reinvented the wheel when it comes to designing roads.

My head hurts. Back to bed.

What are miles and what are feet? Are they really old, archaic ways of measuring things that only backwards countries still follow?

[chudless]

Just pay 3000 baht for car and motorbike licence as I did...much simpler :-)

[bazza40]

You'll feel even safer when you've witnessed some of the lightning-quick anticipation and reflexes of Thai drivers.

Not to mention their penchant for overloading a vehicle to the point where a bump in the road, or a side wind of more than 5 km/hr, results in the vehicle travelling ( briefly ) on two wheels instead of four.

[ableguy]

Or of course you could have just converted your current home license and not have to go through all this.....just saying

What no pilot license ? Amateur ?

[poweratradio]

Try getting the rights of a private pilot's licence in Thailand!!!!

[stevenl]

Employing an agent, my combined motorcycle/car licence test consisted of identifying red, green and yellow on a pseudo traffic light - twice, questions asked in English. Based on an International Driving Permit. With agent's fee, 2000 baht.

Thailand is possibly the best training ground I've ever seen for defensive driving - expect the unexpected.

Fantastic how one can bribe someone for a driver's license. Makes me feel safer on the roads already!

No bribing involved here, he did the tests, just using an agent to assist with the process.

Now, had he failed the test ...

[Soutpeel]

Employing an agent, my combined motorcycle/car licence test consisted of identifying red, green and yellow on a pseudo traffic light - twice, questions asked in English. Based on an International Driving Permit. With agent's fee, 2000 baht.

Thailand is possibly the best training ground I've ever seen for defensive driving - expect the unexpected.

Fantastic how one can bribe someone for a driver's license. Makes me feel safer on the roads already!

No bribing involved here, he did the tests, just using an agent to assist with the process.

Now, had he failed the test ...

And ripped off at 2000 at that, paid 1500 to an agent for doing absolutely nothing one born every minute