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Old 09-22-2012, 04:57 AM   #2
DownloadMan

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G'Day,
On a recent trip to LoS my Thai hosts arranged and kindly paid for my minibus fare from Nakhon Phatom to Khrung Thep. As soon as we got out onto the highway I knew it was a BIG mistake because the driver was an insane lunatic. He tail-gated other cars at 120 km/hr and pulled out to pass when there was oncoming traffic. It seemed he was making a lightning decision as to the social status of the oncoming vehicle and if he considered he was "suung khwaa" the other driver he would pull out in a head-on confrontation that forced the other vehicle off the road. My question is: should I have stopped him and berated him in front of the other passengers? (serious loss of face) or demanded to be dropped off in the middle of nowhere? What I actually did was nothing, but sit with my eyes tightly closed for a white knuckle ride I will never forget. What would you guys have done in that situation?
I have read your post over 3 times and I can not see what you mean.
You have just described 95% of all Thai commercial drivers, Bus, Van or Truck which also includes private vehicles, so I guess that is 95% of all drivers in Thailand.
I have been on First class bus' that have done the very same thing but just some are worse than others, One I was on started to do those things as soon as he hit the super hyway out of Arcade terminal at Chiang mai and continued until they changed drivers in Phetsanulok and my trip finished in Lom Sak.
The best driver we have ever had was a van driver that we hired last year to go round trip from Phetchabun to Chiang Mai for a visa renewal, he was the best I have seen, and we will do it again this next month, but will have to be a different driver as the one we had was killed shortly after our trip when he was passing and was hit headon by a truck and killed.
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