I just got my licence here last week.

It cost me $55 in total and took about 5 days from start to finish. I used the driving school next to Rokku and it was fairly straightforward.

Moose wrote:I just got my licence here last week.

It cost me $55 in total and took about 5 days from start to finish. I used the driving school next to Rokku and it was fairly straightforward.

Did you do a physical driving test and get a 10 year licence?

epidemiks wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:29 am

Moose wrote:I just got my licence here last week.

It cost me $55 in total and took about 5 days from start to finish. I used the driving school next to Rokku and it was fairly straightforward.

Did you do a physical driving test and get a 10 year licence?

No just the transfer, so needs to be renewed in a year. Once i was at the DPWT, it took about an hour before i was leaving with my license.

The 10 year one can now cost anything up to about 250, depending on how terrible a driver you are. I heard you can get the theory test and driving test all done in one day with enough perseverance. Still, i would recommend you use a broker unless you are familiar with the set-up, when i was there i saw a few very lost looking expats wandering around with no clue what was going on.

The Department of Public Works and Transport is currently going through a reform and the process for getting a licence (if your an expat) is going to become more and more difficult so i would suggest doing it sooner rather than later.

phuketrichard wrote:cheap?? compared to what?
a thai license is 550 baht for 5 years, Us Ca license $30 for 5 years
Cambodia $35++ /year

I mean physically. They used to be a nice firm credit card type card, with picture and all that. It now looks like they've gone back in time: literally a thin piece of paper you can make an airplane with. No picture either. I doubt these new ones could be used abroad.



Edit: sorry I'm stupid, it does have a picture. Just looks and feels so damn cheap.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:53 amCambodia $35++ /year

What's with the plus plus? Ain't no thang here, for licenses or visas.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:58 amI mean physically. They used to be a nice firm credit card type card, with picture and all that. It now looks like they've gone back in time: literally a thin piece of paper you can make an airplane with. No picture either. I doubt these new ones could be used abroad.

Edit: sorry I'm stupid, it does have a picture. Just looks and feels so damn cheap.

I reckon I'll drop into a print shop and get mine laminated once I pick it up. Or at least get it copied and laminate the copy - I keep the original at home and carry a copy, so no grubby-fisted tea-money-hungry ... officer of the law ... can take the original from me. One of them showed me a pocketful of licenses he'd taken from drivers and held to ransom, he had forty or so of them, and that was a days gathering. I've learned to never hand over the original since. We also get our passport face page and visa page copy reduced and laminated for every day use.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:10 pm Unless its in english, it means u need get an idp to use outside Cambodia,
Can u get an idp in Cambodia??

Thai License, since its in English, ( at least the 5 year ones are) is valid world wide, I have used mine to rent cars and even used it when a cop stopped me in the states

Cambodian licenses are not recognised outside of Cambodia, and can not be used as the basis for an IDL - although this may have changed since I last looked into it.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 12:59 pm i said $35++ cause

Ana Travel in SHV was $60 last time

pay them around $50 in the first year
Renewals are $35.

It cost me $55 in total

LOL

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2017 8:53 am cheap?? compared to what?
a thai license is 550 baht for 5 years, Us Ca license $30 for 5 years
Cambodia $35++ /year

compared from the normal plastic card to the new paper license in a plastic cover
is what he meant i think