Farewell minivans! Repossessions made after Covid devastates tourism

[rooster59 18,044]

Farewell minivans! Repossessions made after Covid devastates tourism

 

Image: Daily News

 

An owner of a van company in Phuket went online to bid farewell to some of his fleet that had been repossessed by the finance company.

 

Van owners have found their business - 90% reliant on tourists - decimated by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. 

 

Some who have been unable to find other ways to meet instalments have lost their livelihood altogether.

 

The poster said that around 5% of his fleet of 160 vehicles had been repossessed.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[thequietman 11,210]

So, there is an upside to this Covid issue. Good.

 

This will reduce the number of maniacs on the road, and that's a good thing no matter how you look at it.

Edited June 27, 2020 by thequietman

[Happyman108 183]

5% of 160 only 8 Van been tow away, still have 152 van consider very good for the owner.

[Lacessit 22,949]

10 minutes ago, thequietman said:

So, there is an upside to this Covid issue. Good.

 

This will reduce the number of maniacs on the road, and that's a good thing no matter how you look at it.

From personal experience on the 118 between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, minivan drivers are by far the worst on the road.

[Pilotman 18,449]

14 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

From personal experience on the 118 between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, minivan drivers are by far the worst on the road.

same on the Pattaya to Bangkok routes, total morons.  No loss to society 

[Camillof 207]

I thought that kind of vans as seen in the photo were banned for commercial passenger transport and were supposed to have vanished from Thai roads by now. The more of those are taken away from the road, the better.

Edited June 27, 2020 by Camillof

[steelepulse 5,831]

It's been really nice to be able to find a decent parking space these days!  All the green plates, tuk tuks, black plates and vans are no longer claiming all parking spots for themselves.

[Antifreeze 82]

1 hour ago, Happyman108 said:

5% of 160 only 8 Van been tow away, still have 152 van consider very good for the owner.

I think there may be a zero missing there. 

 

1 hour ago, Happyman108 said:

5% of 160 only 8 Van been tow away, still have 152 van consider very good for the owner.

 

[off road pat 2,123]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

From personal experience on the 118 between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, minivan drivers are by far the worst on the road.

Make that, "all over Thailand",..Also from personal experience !

[Kildonan 64]

A blessing in disguise! Hope they never return,, "suicidal maniacs" for other road users and their passengers! 

[buanmeerugsaa 253]

What is everyone going on about with safer roads, fewer accidents and such nonsense. The vans haven’t been destroyed! They’ll be resold and back hurtling up and down your soi in a few days. 

[Tropposurfer 1,483]

It’s a lucky time for rich people huh.

Previously unmoved owners desperately needing to sell houses n land, ll ripe for the picking.

Near new cars flooding the market And plenty of leverage to screw people down for a great price.

[Don Mega 9,625]

Hopefully they get crush so as to never return !!

[zoza 612]

10 hours ago, off road pat said:

Make that, "all over Thailand",..Also from personal experience !

i had a driver from Pattaya a few years ago his driving was unbelievably bad, he even got pulled by the BiB on the way back, i spoke to the English owner of the van company, i told him i would never use his company again while this driver drove, three weeks later he came to me in a bar and announced ''the driver had committed suicide and killed two Russians at the same time '' 

i realized i had used the words ''he could not of drove any worse even if he was trying to kill himself'' 

it was all over the papers about ten years ago.  

[PatchinExPat 191]

Hate to speak bad of folks,

but the van drivers are crazy drivers.