Thailand has a good network of roads in good condition and between the main roads. Traffic follows international conventions and in Thai and English. State drivers in offense and the engine will be randomly abudance motorcycles make driving at night into a real problem.
Street
The traffic is on the left side and the driver must be at least 18 years old and possess a full driving license in Thailand or an international driving license. If you only have a national license in the country, you are entitled to a maximum of two months. For a car, the renter must be at least 25 years old. The wearing of the belt is drunk on duty and the applicable laws, insurance is zero when the driver over the legal alcohol.
Regularly in the police, the threats and the speed of offenders break the boundaries are subject to on-site inspections, sanctions, which are always less that the official, but not as a “ticket” is. The maximum blood alcohol is 0.5 mg / ml Unfortunately, the Thai police are very negligent in the control of the offense in the state, creating a hazard to the end of the night.
Maximum speed:
The urban areas: 45 – 60kph/28 – 37 mph
Highways: 90 – 110kph/56 – 68 mph
Highways and streets
There are approximately 64,600 kms/40, 141mls cobbled streets, in Thailand, as well as a wide network of routes that are not (especially in the north). Main roads radiating outwards Bangkok for all major cities with the most north-south route that a dual carriageway. The connection of the roads in the towns and cities are usually large and single in both directions with routes connecting parts.
Parking in cities is usually on the streets to oppose a small fee or in most cases, a car park in the hotel / places or shopping centers. More City Center Parking is usually free, if you have a space. Not to block the entrance of the building or the government that you probably towed.
The cost, distance and time
Petrol stations are plentiful and most accept all major credit cards. In more remote locations, hand pumps are numerous and the liquidity needed. Lead 91, 95 and high-octane fuel of 98 are, as well as diesel and LPG in some places. Lead 95 is from about 18 baht per liter, diesel, 15 baht.
Typically, distances and journey times:
Bangkok to Chiang Mai: 686kms/426mls 9
Bangkok to Hat Yai: 993kms/617mls 12
Hat Yai in Phuket: 474kms/294mls 7th
Security
Tenants are in urgent need of help is a phone number, which is based on the agreement for the rent and the sticker on the windshield. Try it in the night the potholes remembers nothing of it, without the driver’s rear and the migration of animals, the possibility of an accident.
Since Thai notoriously bad motorists disciplined way, or by respecting the rules for the traffic, motorists are asked to be a “basic rhythm” (50 km or less) in the urban areas. In the case of accidents, the Thais perfe scheme after a legal and often wait the richest motorists to the costs, which include foreigners.
Stay away from downtown Bangkok, the traffic is terrible and the roads are of confusion, not to mention the road, have a great contempt for the other vehicles. Do not go too close to the edge of the road on the highway as well as road bikes quite often the bad side, and do not in the way of buses and trucks. The “songteaw ‘vans trucks usually suddenly from ove