Phuket targets B20m for road-safety in annual license plate auction
The Phuket News


Vice Governor Prajiad Aksornthammakul (left) and Manop Suthipong, who is currently the acting chief of the Phuket Land Transport Office, hold up soe of the license plates up for auction. Photo: PR Dept

PHUKET: -- Officials have set their sights on raising more than B20 million from the Land Transport Department’s 11th License Plate Auction, to be held over two days at the Phuket Merlin Hotel in May.

This year’s edition will see bids for 301 sets of licence plates beginning with the Thai alphabet letters KorRor (กร), explained Manop Suthipong, who is currently the acting chief of the Phuket Land Transport Office.

The auction will get underway at 9am on May 21-22, and the license plates to be auctioned can be used only for non-commercial vehicles rated to carry no more than seven people, he added.

“Anyone interested in bidding can register at the Phuket Land Transport Office during office hours from April 1 to May 20. People can also register at the Merlin Hotel on the auction days,” Mr Manop told the press on Tuesday (Mar 22).

“The person with the highest bid will have the chance to pick whatever license plate number they want from the 301 sets of plates reserved for the auction, and money raised from the auction will go towards road-safety campaigns and a charity for victims of road accidents.”

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-- Phuket News 2016-03-25

I read about two years ago. One of the kids from the Central Shopping Mall Group, bought his future wife a plate with all 9's.

He paid 2-3 million baht. Crazy, but he has the cash, so go for it.

Road safety campaign in Phuket? Where a uniformed policeman stands at the exit to a secondary school and watches passively while helmet less kids taxi 2 of their friends on a motorbike and does nothing.

Safety first, cobblers.