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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Who has a theory booklet for a Thai motorcycle license?
Dear readers,
I have had a driver's license in Thailand for many years for car. My Dutch driver's license has just been transferred for a Thai. Has been extended several times. I still want to get a motorcycle driver's license someday.
I can ride a motorcycle well and I am not afraid of a test in practice. The only thing is the theory. I have already asked many people for a booklet with pictures and written in English what the rules are.
I'm not afraid to take that test, but I need to get the chance to learn it.
Can someone help me?
Color
Dear Cor
Maybe you're into this
http://thailaws.com/law/t_laws/tlaw0140_5.pdf
Or this
http://driving-in-thailand.com/category/laws/traffic-laws/
http://driving.information.in.th/traffic-signs.html
Maybe this website will help you , look up the right links , and you will see the traffic signs , other links and other things about driving I Thailand .
Strange that you have a Thai car driver's license and did not suddenly apply for the motorcycle license at the time, I obtained both 2 years ago with my Belgian car driver's license + int driver's license, now 5 years' driving license for both
.Belgian driving licenses for cars from before an x date apply to both categories. The later ones require a separate exam for the motorcycle or moped.
Here you will also find information:
http://www.thailand-info.be/thailandrijbewijsverkeersbordenalgemeen.htm
If you have a Thai driver's license for car, you will get a motorcycle driver's license anyway, in my experience, you must have your international driver's license with you.
Dear Cor, maybe you can do something with this.
http://phuket.dlt.go.th/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=65
First get an international driver's license from the ANWB. Have the A stamped because there is no moped on it. Just insist on wanting to do it eventually, the driver's license is not valid in the Netherlands anyway.
Go to immigration for the other application papers and you will get a motorcycle license for one year. No exam, no driving test. Or go to a Thai driving school and do theory there for 1000 bath extra, they will help you with your theory. Suc6.
Every year when I do my intern. I ask kindly and with explanation to also stamp the "A" driving license at the ANWB, but always without success. Since there is no category in the driver's license that shows that you are entitled to drive a scooter up to 50 cc. I recently sent a letter to the ANWB to restyle and adjust this driving licence, a simple piece of cardboard with a photo attached with staples. The answer I received was that the form and content of the IRB had been determined through international treaties and that the ANWB, by the Ned. is solely entitled to issue the IRB, which was not allowed to change on its own initiative. The only thing that changes every year is the price, now I believe it is already set at € 17,95!
Dear Cor,
Go to the nearest motor vehicle test center, there you will find the booklets for the taking and you can practice in English on the computers.
Perhaps you can also look up who has priority at an equivalent intersection in Thailand, traffic from the left or from the right? Logic would be left (left traffic!). Practical experience: the one who goes first or has the most courage. No one has been able to explain this to me in Thailand, not even police officers!
But beware of the tough practical test! Anecdote: Maebaan does not have a driver's license. I say; For safety's sake, I want you to get proof. 300 bath! paid for her. She comes back and says: I have to come back tomorrow. Why? The moped (rented on site) did not have a working rear light!!! Why not exchange the moped on the spot? That didn't work, have to come back.
Next day I will go with her. A civil servant sits on an elevation and oversees the exam area of roughly 100 x 100 metres. Our maebaan drive on-straight ahead-stop at priority road-straight again over hill-traffic light turn left and drive back. Duration 2 minutes. The official signs the form without looking at her, because his eyes were focused on a Thai lady who had been messing around with her car for 5 minutes, making one frantic attempt after another to park. And unbelievable, I watched it, the official has not even been able to look at the maebaan for a second, he only had eyes for the molting Thai!
Good luck with it.
Dear Martin Chiangrai,
The right of way from the left is in the “Land Traffic Act, BE 2522.”
http://thailaws.com/law/t_laws/tlaw0140_5.pdf
Section 71 (500B)
If two vehicles enter a junction from different directions at the same time, the vehicle on the left side has a right of way, except when there's a designation of “principle roadway” in which case the vehicle on the principle roadway has a right of way .]
Dear Martin Changrai, At an equivalent intersection, traffic coming from the left has right of way. The only exception is on a traffic roundabout, where traffic coming from the right has priority. Also applies with regard to motorcycles. So make sure you also give priority to these duds. Is clearly indicated in the Thai traffic law.
Theo, you write "The only exception is on a traffic roundabout, then traffic coming from the right has priority." In other words, this means that the traffic on the roundabout must be given priority! In Thailand there are not many roundabouts, in Pattaya there is a well-known roundabout on Second Road near the dolphins, where this rule is generally well
is applied. (Let's hope Martin doesn't blame me that this comment is not about the Thai motorcycle license).
Just take the exam. Is extremely simple. If it doesn't work just try again. And if you have to drive over the beam, take an aiming point straight ahead when you start at the beam. If you look at the blak (or stripe) it will definitely go wrong.
The international driver's license is only for profit. There is absolutely nothing done with the int. driver's license. They are numbered, but are not stored anywhere. The Thai police can never ask for information, because the ANWB itself does not know to whom they have issued them. Surrounding countries all have validity for more than one year and Holland only 1 year. In the beginning that meant that I came here, twice a year for an int. needed a driver's license, I still have them all. You could also see how many were given out, because they are arranged by number. I can tell you that it is a multi-million dollar business for the ANWB.
In Belgium, they are delivered by the official services of the population, and they are all registered, unlike for example the UK where they are bought by post, or apparently in the Netherlands the ANWB delivered them, this used to be the case in Belgium that the car associations did that, but now everything is officially checked and valid for 3 years.
I still use my international driver's license in Thailand which was "expired" in 2000.
At the police check I always show my national (B) and international.
Never received a comment that my international driver's license has expired.
(Hopefully this will stay that way.... otherwise get a new one)
I don't live in Thailand, otherwise I would have already provided myself with a Thai driver's license.
FYI: my Thai wife obtained her driver's license in Belgium (did not have a Thai driver's license) and later used this to also obtain a Thai driver's license. (she just had to do an eye test)
This forum is full of "smart people" who play the police by the nose. That's not an achievement either. Rather stupid!!!. The point is not that you can pass a traffic check unimpeded, but that you can pass a lawsuit unimpeded if you happen to be involved in an accident. That may not even be your fault.
Phuket Povincial Land Transport has 3 mock exams on the website. I used them for practice last year and it went well.
http://phuket.dlt.go.th/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=65
I exchanged a car license in Pattaya (10 minutes) and I had to get a motorcycle license (I only have BE in the Netherlands). The latter takes a day due to the long wait. Exam itself in 2 times 15 minutes.
Dear Cor,
i went to apply for driver's license in pattaya last year then didn't get the car as i asked but the motorbike but after asking twice it was changed to car license without doing theory and practice.
I know this isn't your question but wanted to let you know anyway.
success
I think the question was about an exam and not about the ANWB. People read poorly
Indeed Martin people read badly.
BeerChang quits
29 July 2015 on 10: 30
Dear Cor, maybe you can do something with this.
http://phuket.dlt.go.th/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=65
Dear all ,
How many reactions. I am happy with it and thank the editors for posting my question.
As you can see, the blog is invaluable to the people living in Thailand.
Cor van Kampen.
Do I understand correctly that it is possible to obtain a Thai driver's license by showing your Dutch driver's license? That would be great for me personally!
Why you may ask?
I have driven around 50 km per year in the Netherlands for 100.000 years without 1 serious accident. So I dare to say that I am a good driver.
But I am color blind and have had the greatest difficulty taking the pre-school test that is mandatory here in Thailand for obtaining a driver's license.
Wouldn't it be crazy that I couldn't get a driver's license here for that reason, while the Thais who generally drive badly can get a driver's license, just because they are not color blind and I am?
Kindly confirm from you who know if it is true that you can exchange (or show) your Dutch driver's license to obtain a Thai driver's license.
Unfortunately, you cannot simply exchange it. You have to take a test for color blindness and depth. The way they do the test is not much, but if you are colorblind you can certainly fall through the cracks.
Emotions such as 50 years of driving license and Thai driving style are understandable, but are also not legal in the Netherlands.
See my response and info regarding exchanging Thai wife's driver's license above.
An eye test was the only thing that was performed at the time.
Is apparently a requirement, not being colorblind.
(This was in Suwannaphum / Roi Et district, so not a touristy place)
Unfortunately, you can't just exchange it. You must take a test for color blindness and for depth perception. They are very simple tests that I don't think are very good, but if you are color blind you can certainly be rejected.
Emotions such as 50 years of driving license or Thai people who cannot drive are understandable, but are not in the law.
You do not necessarily have to take the test for depth perception: I am blind in one eye, so I cannot do this test. In that case, a Thai ophthalmologist's statement that you can see well with your single eye is sufficient.
You can enter your int. driver's license and showing a Dutch driver's license exchanged for the Thai driver's license. But, and I found that out, you get a few tests. I suffer from color blindness and was therefore sent away. Thailand is one of the few countries that has a color blindness test. I have taken a different path and now have all the driver's licenses. To be rejected for color blindness goes a long way, I see the colors of the traffic light and that's enough.