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Home » Reader question » Reader question: How many people can you transport with a driving license B?
Dear readers,
Does anyone know how many people you can transport in a van in Thailand? So with a driving license B.
Regards,
Ronald
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8 people excluding the driver. But remember if the vehicle is FURNISHED with more seats you will need a full size driver's license regardless of the number of people you are transporting.
Thailand is being asked, not the Netherlands.
In Thailand they don't have a big driver's license,
the size is the same as a credit card.
ha-ha-ha.
Gerrit
Well,
We do not know any types of driver's license, only for a motorcycle and for a car
We also do not know a maximum number of people in a means of transport.
Some buses are so full that people sit on the roof.
So if you can still look ahead, that's enough.
Gerrit
Yes it is. Also in Thailand you have different categories in the driver's license. Just look at the back. At the bottom are the different cars that you can drive with your driver's license. For many, the passenger car, the pick-up and a small van.
I assume that the questioner himself wants to drive a passenger car in Thailand, that is allowed with a Dutch driving license B, provided he has an international driving licence, but he is absolutely not allowed to transport several people if he is the driver of the car, that is prohibited in Thailand without a work permit, especially if it concerns a minibus or van, be careful!
Minibus or van is allowed if it has a white license plate with blue letters. Yellow license plate with black letters is indeed not allowed, that is commercial transport.
In the Netherlands with a B driving license the driver plus 8 passengers. A total of 9 people, provided everyone has their own seat. In Thailand it will not be much different, but you sometimes see strange things in terms of passenger transport. Regards, Martin.
Gerrit, if you are a resident of one of the European countries, you need an international driver's license. You will then also have to comply with the rules of the person who issued you that national driving license in Thailand. I am sure if you are going to drive with your driving license B in a van with, for example, 12 people in it, that your travel insurance and any other insurance policies can become very difficult with possible compensation.
A whole class fits in the vans for schoolchildren, standard benches and chairs are removed and some benches are placed lengthwise and there are easily 30 in them.
Don't be so bound by rules.
After the number of seat belts .
To avoid all misery in the event of an accident, it is best not to exceed the number of insured persons indicated on your insurance policy.
The maximum number of passengers in a Minibus or Van is 12 +1.
Dear Ronald
I am one of the few foreigners in Thailand who holds a major Thai driver's license.
so also for trucks, buses and trailers.
Every taxi driver in Thailand who does not transport people in a normal passenger car must be in possession of a large driver's license (including for a song tew, blue pickups with seats in Pattaya) and for a Mini van for passenger transport. Even driving with a trailer requires a large driver's license.
So be careful before you start transporting people (without a work permit) because if something should happen as soon as you get involved in an accident, even if it's not your fault, they'll go with you and that's definitely no joke.
I can drive everything here for myself (privately) but not for professional transport, so no people or other types of cargo for third parties.
Greetings from Cor
What I forgot to tell you is that an international driving license in Thailand is not valid as a large driving license, only a Thai large driving license because it falls under professional transport.
Thailand also has many types of groups when it comes to driving licenses.
Driving a Scania or Hino truck or a tour bus has a different driving license classification, just like in the Netherlands.
The driving licenses that the average farang has to deal with are motorbike and passenger car, pickup and small bus.
And these last three are on the same Thai driver's license, at the bottom of the back of the plastic card.
What does strike me, however, is that with a motorcycle license you can ride a 105 cc Honda Dream as well as a 1690 cc and 400 kg Harley Davidson touring bike.
And believe me , there is a world of difference .
Dear Cor,
I have had a trailer for years, officially with registration number, and pay taxes, I checked everything here in Buriram at the traffic police and where you get your driver's license, you do NOT need a large driver's license for a trailer, if it is different, let me know know.
I have European/Belgian driving licenses A, A1, B, B1 and BE. THEY are neatly listed on 1 plastic card. THEY are also all listed on my international driver's license. The A's and B's were easily converted to Thai driving licenses, albeit on 2 plastic cards. The conversion of the BE, car with trailer, was refused. The motivation was that I do not have a work permit and am therefore not allowed to do any transport.
When I clarified that I have a boat on a trailer and a tow bar on the car, it was answered that I do not need BE for that because this is not a transport under Thai law.
Was this the umpteenth personal interpretation (fantasy) of a Thai official? The next check from an overzealous Thai policeman will tell.
I'm afraid transporting people by van requires a work permit. As long as there is no clever control, jealous betrayal or accident, of course no problem 🙂