How much load can these Thais carry on their pickups?

**9999** · 04-06-2012, 08:23 PM

Apparently not this much...

Got this snap yesterday on the way from CNX to BKK (driving).

The guy underneath was not too impressed at my passing by and rubber-necking from across the medium strip, U-turning down the road, slowing to almost a holt to take the picture, U-turning back again and pulling over to take the above picture (the ones where I pulled up on his side of the road were too close up).

Fukn hilarious - though someone will be losing out big time on this. I don't think insurance covers this type of damage, that's assuming the driver had a licence and the car was registered and insured (unlikely).

It's like some fukn he-man quest to see who can jam the most on their trays. I know they take pride in it. I've overheard Thais boasting to each other of how much load they carry.

**david44** · 04-06-2012, 08:33 PM

Basket case

**Thetyim** · 04-06-2012, 08:37 PM

That's not even loaded the crates are empty.

**The Muffinman** · 04-06-2012, 08:39 PM

LOL

Expect this ute to be spotwelded by the end of the day.

He'll probably attempt to do the same run tomorrow. TIT

**Thetyim** · 04-06-2012, 08:41 PM

Not much weight here but a seriously case of large load

**9999** · 04-06-2012, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

That's not even loaded the crates are empty.

Must've been pretty heavy crates to snap the fucker in half like that.

Possibly a dodgy smash repaired vehicle. Not the back and front tires are different.

**ShrewedPunter** · 04-06-2012, 09:04 PM

I'll never forget my first trip to Thailand. On teh way into Bangkok from the Airport, i witnessed all kinds of oddities on the road.

Pickups overloaded, Taxis driving like maniacs and not signalling, people in the back of wagon type vehicles unrestrained.

Those very moments made me realise i was in a very very fucked up country

**Chairman Mao** · 04-06-2012, 09:07 PM

He needed to strap that lip that came over the cab roof to the cab. An elastic band strap through the windows could have done it.

**socal** · 04-06-2012, 10:56 PM

efficiency

**Jesus Jones** · 04-06-2012, 11:03 PM

Why are these people so feckin dumb? I have seen many vehicles bent and bowed in the middle which have obviously been repaired at some point.
Why are these people so feckin dumb? I have seen many vehicles bent and bowed in the middle which have obviously been repaired at some point.
Incidentally, did anyone see the barge crane which had slipped off the back of a flatbed because some twat for got to fasten the thing down? The brain dead fool took a soi corner a little to fast!

On ram inthra it was.

**sunsetter** · 04-06-2012, 11:08 PM

those plastic crates are stacked inside each other, so are not empty at all, that lot probably goes, 2.5, 3 tonnes

dunno why the guy would be unimpressed though,looks asleep to me ?

**Bangyai** · 04-06-2012, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

Why are these people so feckin dumb? I have seen many vehicles bent and bowed in the middle which have obviously been repaired at some point.

Yes....I'm sure you'd agree , they need one of these :

Come on JJ........time to fess up ..... you know you want one.

**9999** · 04-06-2012, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by socal

efficiency

It's pretty fukn in-efficient to overload a (poorly maintained) vehicle like that. The odds are against you. How many more overloaded trips will it take to pay for that write off?

**sunsetter** · 04-06-2012, 11:11 PM

wont cost nothing, they will jack the back up weld it and be away, no big mystery

**9999** · 04-06-2012, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by sunsetter

dunno why the guy would be unimpressed though,looks asleep to me ?

You'd be forgiven for thinking so especially in a crisis like this but he was under there with a shifter trying to fix it.

**sunsetter** · 04-06-2012, 11:35 PM

am i seeing the same pic? he is blatantly asleep

**jizzybloke** · 05-06-2012, 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by 9999

shifter trying to fix it.

He's doing a good impression of someone with both arms behind their head having a kip!

**sunsetter** · 05-06-2012, 12:10 AM

^ thank fcuk, im not stoned so can obviously see he is asleep, same as you do

**Bettyboo** · 05-06-2012, 10:03 AM

^ that's a Thai working pose; he's not sleeping...

**9999** · 05-06-2012, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by sunsetter

am i seeing the same pic? he is blatantly asleep

Originally Posted by sunsetter

He's doing a good impression of someone with both arms behind their head having a kip!

Originally Posted by sunsetter

^ thank fcuk, im not stoned so can obviously see he is asleep, same as you do

Originally Posted by sunsetter

^ that's a Thai working pose; he's not sleeping...

I'll admit to being stoned at the time, but he was not sleeping. In that photo he appears to be assessing the situation. He had a large sized shifter you can't see in that pick. He shook it at me when I went past him first time around. Actually this is after we tripled back and took the photo from the other side of the road, so yeah he could well have fallen asleep between the shifter shaking and then (5-10 minutes).

**Bettyboo** · 05-06-2012, 10:24 AM

^ what s a shifter?

Google offers these, but I don't think you mean any of them...

Or are you talking about the bloke himself who gave you short sh(r)ift, he was a shifter?

**Cujo** · 05-06-2012, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

^ what s a shifter?

**BaitongBoy** · 05-06-2012, 10:44 AM

^Looks like a crescent wrench...a shifting spanner...

**withnallstoke** · 05-06-2012, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

what s a shifter?

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shister - One who speaks bullshit fluently in order to fool people out of money or other possesions, often associated with used-car salesmen.

Or shifter - a compound word made from shirt and lifter.

**9999** · 05-06-2012, 10:58 AM

Yes in Aussie they are called shifters - adjustable spanners.

It may have just been his weapon though. This genius could possibly have rigged up a mechanism to transform the ute into a tent to sleep under on the side of busy highways.

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