Truckers Press for Capped Diesel Price
About 700 big trucks showed up for their trips on 4 main streets to the Energy Ministry in inner Bangkok this morning to demand the government solve the high diesel price.
About 700 big trucks showed up for their trips on 4 main streets to the Energy Ministry in inner Bangkok this morning to demand the government solve the high diesel price.
The Land Transport Federation of Thailand will send their written demand to the prime minister to have his government limit the diesel price at 25 baht per liter; otherwise, 3,000 trucks will be deployed in Bangkok to intensify the demand in two weeks.
Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow accepted for consideration a proposal from trucking operators for the government to freeze the diesel price.
Tak province has banned Myanmar trucks from entering the border town of Mae Sot and allowed the vehicles to load or unload goods at the border after three Myanmar truck drivers were found to be infected with Covid-19.