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Bangkok Road Rage: Fighting minibus drivers suspended

 

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Thai caption: Suspended....

 

Three minibus drivers have been suspended and the operating companies fined after a fight broke out at the end of yesterday morning's rush hour. 

 

A Twitter user had exposed the fight of drivers on routes 56 and 40 that ply the capital. 

 

"Bankkamikunkai" said that after a spell of driving in which the drivers had tried to cut each other up on the roads a driver of one minibus had waited for the arrival of another outside Big C on Issaraphap Road. 

 

A battle ensued with fed up passengers looking on and a big traffic jam building up. 

 

The Bangkok Mass Transport Authority moved swiftly. Three drivers were immediately suspended from today until Thursday. Their vehicles were also taken off the road for the same time period and the two operators were fined 5,000 baht each. 

 

The operators were ordered to send their drivers to BMTA HQ this morning to explain themselves and face further fines. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 
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4 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

The operators were ordered to send their drivers to BMTA HQ this morning to explain themselves and face further fines. 

If it is the standard fines of 500 baht each we can expect to see this sort continue to occur regularly, whether it be taxis, motorbikes, minibuses or baht buses, all of whom are rarely out of the news for exactly the same thing. If they really wanted to stamp such poor behaviour out, throw them in jail for a month or more and hit them up with a really nasty fine. It is only when there are serious consequences for such performances that it will ever be stopped.

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39 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Bangkok Mass Transport Authority moved swiftly. Three drivers were immediately suspended from today until Thursday. Their vehicles were also taken off the road for the same time period and the two operators were fined 5,000 baht each. 

:cheesy::cheesy::cheesy::cheesy::cheesy: Wooooah, what a SCARY punishment

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

"Bankkamikunkai" said that after a spell of driving in which the drivers had tried to cut each other up on the roads a driver of one minibus had waited for the arrival of another outside Big C on Issaraphap Road.

Professional drivers is not the term I would use.....

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24 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

What a joy it most been for being trapped  in their Vans as innocent passengers. 

Mai pen rai.

 

They're suspended tomorrow. Back on the roads and serving members of the public on Thursday.

 

 

 

 

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Ya gotta love the place. ????

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They put everyone's life in danger in this is all the punishment that they receive? What a complete and utter disgrace to their country and their fellow countrymen. obviously one of the many many reasons why foreigners have little or no respect for Thailand and Thai people. unfortunately for the vast majority of Thai people that are good honest and decent human beings, they're the ones that are being hurt most of all.

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On 11/12/2019 at 9:58 AM, darksidedog said:

If it is the standard fines of 500 baht

I guess the companies will demand the 5,000 Baht from the drivers.

 

22 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

If you added 2 zeroes at the back, maybe.

300,000 Baht? What do you think a driver earns per month? 3,000 Baht would mean the salary of a week. So compare this number with the average one week salary of a bus driver in your country.

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The point of penalty is to stop people from doing it. Your thinking reminds me of a joke...

 

Johnny is visiting his friend, a park employee, when he notices a sign "No walking on the grass. Penalty 10 cents!" So he asks why on Earth is the penalty so low? Why not increase to 100$ instead?! His friend answers:"Are you mad?! Then nobody would walk on grass!"

 

Fines in Thailand aren't set to deter bad behaviour. They are made to encourage it and finance the police by offenders.

 

And yes, if years of income was going to be wiped by act of idiocy, the drivers might actually reconsider dangerous driving with vehicles full of terrified passengers and beating each other up at the stop.

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