2 One tuk- tuk driver is Pom Sanniwat. Pom is fifty-two years old, and has been driving his tuk-tuk for almost twenty-five years. Like many tuk-tuk drivers, Pom comes from the north of Thailand. Pom’s village was very poor. There was no work on the farms, so Pom came to Bangkok. He decided to become a tuk-tuk driver because it looked like fun.