Minivan driver slapped with 5,000 baht fine for overloading

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- A minivan driver was banged to rights Sunday after a sting operation by soldiers caught him overloading his minivan heading out of Bangkok.

 

Not content with a full van of passengers on the route to Damnern Saduak driver Somchai Sukdit picked up four more along the way who had to stand.

 

But soldiers in plain clothes on the route 966 on Saturday were on hand to film the evidence.

 

And on Sunday Somchai, 64,faced the music - he was fined 5,000 baht and a further 5,000 was levied on the operator of the vehicle.

 

The military have been worried after insurance companies refused to cover overloaded vehicles involved in accidents. There were many cases of this happening recently reported Daily News.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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1 minute ago, webfact said:

The military have been worried.....

 

The last thing anyone wants is a stressed out army...

Fined, but not suspended...

Plain clothes soldiers now !!!! What ever next, plain clothes monks?????

Maybe if the Police had caught him,handing over 200 THB 

and he would have been on his way.

regards worgeordie

Good good good good. Excellent. Brilliant. Great.

 

Som nam naa!!

3 interesting points for me in this story.

 

1 - Good job. I guess 5000 for the driver and 5000 for the Company is enough to hurt a bit, and perhaps they will both now spread the word. Bad news like this travels really quickly within a tight industry.

 

2 - On another thread, a poster got into trouble for generalizing Thai men as "Somchai". May we be permitted to call this driver "Somchai"

 

3 - Army now doing general Police type work ? Works for me.       

5 minutes ago, electric said:

 

3 - Army now doing general Police type work ? Works for me.       

 

someone has to do it.

Im more worried about their driving ability but that means getting off their buts and catching the mini bus drivers driving recklessly ! 

 

Yet another example of the army doing police work. Or more correctly work the police don't do. 

Slowly but surely the move is on for a re-assignment of law and order duties. Some time into the future police will be left looking out the window of the station wondering what might be left for them to do. Maybe then law and order will have arrived.

35 minutes ago, Brer Fox said:

Yet another example of the army doing police work. Or more correctly work the police don't do. 

Slowly but surely the move is on for a re-assignment of law and order duties. Some time into the future police will be left looking out the window of the station wondering what might be left for them to do. Maybe then law and order will have arrived.

 

Just shows how bad the police are here they hate doing real police work.

If you can ride 4-5 people on a motorbike its logical to assume you cand fit 14-15 people in a 10 seater minivan.

2 hours ago, Brer Fox said:

Yet another example of the army doing police work. Or more correctly work the police don't do. 

Slowly but surely the move is on for a re-assignment of law and order duties. Some time into the future police will be left looking out the window of the station wondering what might be left for them to do. Maybe then law and order will have arrived.

 

I don't think that will bother them, having nothing to do.

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4 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

I don't think that will bother them, having nothing to do.

It might bother them if there  is no money paid for doing nothing. Then they might have to find jobs as security personnel or sidewalk rental managers.

4 hours ago, electric said:

3 interesting points for me in this story.

 

1 - Good job. I guess 5000 for the driver and 5000 for the Company is enough to hurt a bit, and perhaps they will both now spread the word. Bad news like this travels really quickly within a tight industry.

 

2 - On another thread, a poster got into trouble for generalizing Thai men as "Somchai". May we be permitted to call this driver "Somchai"

 

3 - Army now doing general Police type work ? Works for me.       

Scotsmen  are "Jock", Irishmen "Paddy", Englishmen, ?? So why can't Thailandmen be "Somchai?

2 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

Scotsmen  are "Jock", Irishmen "Paddy", Englishmen, ?? So why can't Thailandmen be "Somchai?

 

  I agree. But someone got their knickers in a twist about this on another thread. 

 

Just so happens this mini van drivers' real name is Somchai     Thought that was kind of funny. (in a Monty Python way)

 

I actually know 3 Thai guys named Somchai, so I'm guessing it's a fairly common name ?

 

Any Tom, Dick or Harrys out there ? 

 

 

5 hours ago, colinneil said:

Plain clothes soldiers now !!!! What ever next, plain clothes monks?????

 

Lots of those already having fun once the sun goes down Colin .

Good job by the army , criticize them all you want but they have been cleaning up this country after the coup in a good way.

 

Should have been B50,000...... greedy basta*** only

 care about money, nothing about passenger safety.

I was offered a lift to the BTS station in a private hired minivan on Saturday.  The suspension was bottoming out so badly that he stopped at a gas ststion and removed one passenger and at least 500kg of temple donations for another vehicle to come and get.  And he still had to go to the next gas station and increase all the tyre pressures.

  I was glad to get out a very few km later.  The rest of them had 400km in front of them in that still. overloaded minivan.

Overloading mini vans and pickups is a way of life here.  As noteworthy with the average citizens as 10 year old's on motor bikes and our or bor tor arriving today without a helmet. As Alfred E Newman would say, "What me worry?"

Maybe they should look at the overloading of Pattaya's Baht Busses... 

 

 

Terrible indictment that insurance companies have to leverage public policy. 

16 hours ago, electric said:

On another thread, a poster got into trouble for generalizing Thai men as "Somchai". May we be permitted to call this driver "Somchai"

 

If the cap fits... 

16 hours ago, steve187 said:

 

someone has to do it.

Can't  a soldier operating out of uniform be shot as a spy?