Overloaded trucks are required to seek permission from Highways Department

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Overloaded trucks are required to seek permission from Highways Department



BANGKOK: -- Owners of trailer trucks which carry heavy construction materials have been warned to have their vehicles registered with the Highways Department for permission otherwise they may face a 6-month jailterm and/or a fine of not exceeding 10,000 baht.

Mr Phiraphol Thavornsupacharoen, the transport deputy permanent secretary and acting director-general of Highways Department, said Tuesday that the new measure was meant to protect roads from damage caused by overloaded trucks.

He pointed out that the ongoing construction of several mega infrastructure projects required the service of may trailer trucks to carry heavy construction materials such as ready-made concrete segments from factories to construction sites.

These heavy loaded trucks, he explained, have caused damages to highways and roads and, hence, they need to be regulated.

Owners of these heavy-duty vehicles can call 1586 or 02-3546686-75 for more information.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/157377


-- Thai PBS 2016-03-30

[HOAX]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

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[ThaiKneeTim]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

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"Damage to the highway" is quite obviously a financial concern. The local authority either pays for the repairs or enforces weight limits, just like they do in USA and Europe!

Unless of course you're willing to pay for road repairs; no, I thought not!

[leeneeds]

Getting the permit or being allowed to travel the route, to the destination,

when these small bridges are crossed who actually goes and inspects these bridges

for wear and tear, and how often are they checked, weights and measures do not seem

to be active only at weight stations,

From the dismantling of bridges i have seen that is taking

place now , some on the tenuous horizontal beams have been shaken to the edge,

Sugar cane trucks so overloaded crossing village bridges sure makes me think

about crossing the same bridge, getting off my bum i have been to look at the main

one used, and now take an alternative route,

until an up grade of this one is done.

[selftaopath]

Make way for more pocket money... That's a/b all that will change. Who cares a/b the chaos on the roads as long as money exchanges hands.

[jaltsc]

In England they drive on the left side of the road.

In Thailand they drive on what’s left of the road.

[GinBoy2]

Ah, yet another proclamation, from the land of proclamations, that will have a couple of days of fanfare then cosigned to the trash can, along with all the others.

As we wind down sugar season and the monstrously overloaded sugar trucks, which constantly fall over ( I am convinced not one Thai has any concept of Center of Gravity), we can congratulate ourselves that this latest edict has worked

....until November when mysteriously they will all re-appear just as overloaded, dangerous, and road surface destroying as ever

[HOAX]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

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"Damage to the highway" is quite obviously a financial concern. The local authority either pays for the repairs or enforces weight limits, just like they do in USA and Europe!

Unless of course you're willing to pay for road repairs; no, I thought not!

No need to state the obvious. Building roads and maintaining them takes up a big portion of any gov budgets all around the world. But you missed my point...

What about the overloaded vehicles that kills thousands of people in Thailand every year... because they're overloaded? Why not regulate it all at once while they're on it?

No, because human lives has less value than asphalt in Thailand.

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[worgeordie]

Overloaded trucks are against the law,every truck,whatever size

has a gross weight limit,are the Land department saying to truckers

if you want to overload your trucks,contact us,which does not make

sense,unless there is an incentive involved,you know what i mean.

regards Worgeordie

[Usual Suspect]

Another waste of breath...Yet again it's a classic case of the Thai's daily unwillingness to abide by any form of law..be it driving the 'wrong' way down a one-way street, sailing thru' a

junction at speed,with an overhead red light blazing away...or, in the case of truck-drivers.. loading 50-100% more soil in the truck, (general rule of hauling soil is fill only 50% of the trucks body-capacity to reach it's weight limit...now observe how much soil they have onboard!). Also transporting a 25ton diggers on 6-wheelers

designed to carry 14-16T (with only 1 snag-chain holding it on).

And if we all read the report again, then in there you'll find that magic word that seems to be consistent with any mention of penalties for wrong-dooers...'may'.

'May' receive a jail term, may be fined, may be banned, may just carry on as normal.

May seems to run alongside 'urge' nowadays.

[selftaopath]

Another waste of breath...Yet again it's a classic case of the Thai's daily unwillingness to abide by any form of law..be it driving the 'wrong' way down a one-way street, sailing thru' a

junction at speed,with an overhead red light blazing away...or, in the case of truck-drivers.. loading 50-100% more soil in the truck, (general rule of hauling soil is fill only 50% of the trucks body-capacity to reach it's weight limit...now observe how much soil they have onboard!). Also transporting a 25ton diggers on 6-wheelers

designed to carry 14-16T (with only 1 snag-chain holding it on).

And if we all read the report again, then in there you'll find that magic word that seems to be consistent with any mention of penalties for wrong-dooers...'may'.

'May' receive a jail term, may be fined, may be banned, may just carry on as normal.

May seems to run alongside 'urge' nowadays.

Without Rule of Law there is NO democracy. Anarchy anyone?

[leeneeds]

Another waste of breath...Yet again it's a classic case of the Thai's daily unwillingness to abide by any form of law..be it driving the 'wrong' way down a one-way street, sailing thru' a

junction at speed,with an overhead red light blazing away...or, in the case of truck-drivers.. loading 50-100% more soil in the truck, (general rule of hauling soil is fill only 50% of the trucks body-capacity to reach it's weight limit...now observe how much soil they have onboard!). Also transporting a 25ton diggers on 6-wheelers

designed to carry 14-16T (with only 1 snag-chain holding it on).

And if we all read the report again, then in there you'll find that magic word that seems to be consistent with any mention of penalties for wrong-dooers...'may'.

'May' receive a jail term, may be fined, may be banned, may just carry on as normal.

May seems to run alongside 'urge' nowadays.

MAY , actually means envelope in Liapoota language ,

[AhFarangJa]

My award for joke of the month.....

[alant]

Overloaded trucks are against the law,every truck,whatever size

has a gross weight limit,are the Land department saying to truckers

if you want to overload your trucks,contact us,which does not make

sense,unless there is an incentive involved,you know what i mean.

regards Worgeordie

An incentive indeed! Tut tut...

[SABloke]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

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"Damage to the highway" is quite obviously a financial concern. The local authority either pays for the repairs or enforces weight limits, just like they do in USA and Europe!

Unless of course you're willing to pay for road repairs; no, I thought not!

I think Tim is more likely to pay for road repairs than the local authority

[ThaiKneeTim]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Damage to the highway" is quite obviously a financial concern. The local authority either pays for the repairs or enforces weight limits, just like they do in USA and Europe!

Unless of course you're willing to pay for road repairs; no, I thought not!

No need to state the obvious. Building roads and maintaining them takes up a big portion of any gov budgets all around the world. But you missed my point...

What about the overloaded vehicles that kills thousands of people in Thailand every year... because they're overloaded? Why not regulate it all at once while they're on it?

Well the obvious point here is they are only concerned about the roads in Bangkok, so the daily insanity will continue unchecked in the rest of Thailand.

No, because human lives has less value than asphalt in Thailand.

That's pretty obvious, the total reliance on the protection of the spirits and a complete lack of common sense, coupled with an urgency to get anywhere no matter what.

Life is cheap, that's something that is more apparent as you travel to poorer nations. In many third world countries a large family is essential if you want at least two or three of your offspring to survive infant mortality and love long enough to look after you in your old age.

Preventing death is a western obsession because we value life, here it's accepted as an every day norm, and fate isn't in your hands so why bother trying to prevent something that is destined to happen.

Travel is an education if you take time to look at life through the eyes of the people in the countries you visit.

[ThaiKneeTim]

Overweight, unroadworthy, uninsured, unlicensed drivers, unwillingness to observe traffic regulations, a police force unwilling to enforce traffic regulations, unless a small cash consideration is involved.

Of course they're only concerned about the cost of damage to the road, they don't give a flying <deleted> about anything else!

Prevention is better than cure, unless you're Thai.

[monkey4u]

Overloaded trucks are against the law,every truck,whatever size

has a gross weight limit,are the Land department saying to truckers

if you want to overload your trucks,contact us,which does not make

sense,unless there is an incentive involved,you know what i mean.

regards Worgeordie

Back in the early 90's Australia had a 5 ton front axle load limit on heavy trucks

If you wanted to raise the limit to 6 tons you just paid for a 12 month permit

How the permit made it safer I have no idea, but it WAS a pretty green sticker you were given

[bheard]

10,000 baht fine. Inadequate.

That amount of money is not a deterrent for big operators. How about they multiply it by 10, then it's starting to look like a deterrent.

[zyphodb]

Something else that will never change here, too many gov officials getting backhanders from the sugarcane truck owners etc. for allowing the overloading, can't go rocking the boat now can we.....

[SOTIRIOS]

...oh...okay....

[Tomtomtom69]

No more overloaded trailer trucks?

No problem. No need for them when you got...

I'm guessing it's more about financial concerns than safety concerns...

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I'm pretty sure the bottom three pictures were taken in Cambodia (the second from the bottom could even be from Vietnam), not Thailand. While the top two are quite commonplace in Thailand and one occasionally sees trucks with 2-3 people sitting on the roof (mainly in border areas like near Mae Sot) apart from people sitting in the trays of pickup trucks you don't see 10-15 people on the roof of a small vehicle. In Cambodia you do and if you look closely the vehicles in that photo are positioned on the right hand side of the road, the opposite side to which Thailand's traffic travels on.

Of course it's true that traffic in Thailand drives on the left, most of the time.

[wabothai]

So you drive your overloaded truck to the nearest Highway Department and ask for certification of your overload?

Most likely you have to unload on the non-ever-used driver education circuit, drop your legal load and come back for the rest of the load, for which you will be charged a fee.

Thai logic.

But it is a good start to at least try to make over-loaders aware of the dangers of overloading,

and that counts for the overload of alcohol the same.

[Miaow]

[Thongkorn]

Overloaded trucks are against the law,every truck,whatever size

has a gross weight limit,are the Land department saying to truckers

if you want to overload your trucks,contact us,which does not make

sense,unless there is an incentive involved,you know what i mean.

regards Worgeordie

What about design and construction limits. It does not matter what any department may say . The brakes are designed for the vehicles specific weight .not what any department may give permission for. Another accident waiting to happen.

[sgtsabai]

Thai over the road truck: underlite, overloaded, underpowered, fueled by yaba.

[sanukjim]

This will differently piss off the BIB as a large source of their income(keep it up Army). About ten years or so ago the PM was listening to a proposal of doing almost the same thing.The trucking company would be fined and to pay monies to the government for any overloads caught by the BIB.The BIB went in to a rage with protest of not writing any tickets to any truck with any load.The BIB writing the ticket would have not seen any money in bribes if this had went into law..To appease the BIB the proposal was not even brought up again.At this time of the idea this was still TITT land and you know who still had sway as a retired policeman on the side of the BIB.

[Nobb]

No police ever seen on any highways i travel or roads. they will continue to drive because the Thai police need more officers or the ones they have have to get of off there lazy asses!

[neal david]

curious ....i live around the saraburi province and for the last few days in the evening i have been seeing what looks like blades for wind fans ...shit they must be at 50/60 meters in lenght ... and the round metal towers they must 3/4 meters in dai and 20 meters in length ....all on low loaders trailers ....

if anyone else has seen or knows about them i'd love to know .....

[jerojero]

And what about pickups with overloaded people in the back? No regulation, enforcement or concern for workers hauled about like cattle.