Oil tankers will be allowed to operate around the clock for one month so they can deliver fuel to petrol stations across the country and help ease shortages.
Interior Permanent Secretary Orasit Samphantharat said today that he has instructed all provincial governors to coordinate with traffic police to ensure that tankers can operate 24 hours a day as a special case, without being stopped.
In the past few days, many petrol stations nationwide have run out of fuel as motorists rushed to refill their vehicles for fear of petrol and diesel shortages and possible price increases.
Unlike private cars, public buses or taxis, trucks are normally allowed on the roads only during certain hours of the day to ease traffic congestion. This restriction has prevented oil tankers from increasing the frequency of deliveries to petrol stations.
