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Austria license plate: Trailer foreign

Issued today 2002 to today. Trailer plates, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.

Austria license plate, Trailer foreign (2002 to today), sample SL-740M
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999L, for example SL-740M (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Nothing new to decode, by design: this red plate repeats the towing vehicle's own registration so a bike rack or crane cannot hide it. Read it exactly as the plate it copies.

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2002 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0000
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Austria license plate, Trailer foreign 300×200 mm (2002 to today)

    Trailer foreign 300×200 mm

    trailer · 300 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE RED CARRIER PLATE. Austria's answer to a problem most jurisdictions leave unsolved: a bike rack, a rear-mounted crane or a ski basket that hides the rear plate gets its own RED plate bearing the towing vehicle's registration (§ 49 Abs. 3 Z 3 and Abs. 8), and the same plate type serves foreign trailers and trailers being towed abroad. It is the only red Austrian plate with an EU band, the moped plate is red without one, and the only plate the regulation strips of the red-white-red edging, sensibly, since the ground is already red.
Region code notes
the prefix decodes to the authority that registered the TOWING VEHICLE, not the trailer, the trailer may be foreign or unregistered altogether
About the format
The pattern shown is ONE representative shape (the ordinary serial).

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 49 Abs. 3 Z 1-3, verbatim scope: trailers with a FOREIGN registration to be towed by an Austrian-registered vehicle (§ 83) where the applicant shows inbound transport business; unregistered trailers to be towed... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49
  2. Anlage 5e: Ausländische Anhänger (AAT) row, EU emblem +, rot/weiß, Wappen +, 6 Vormerkzeichen, 'Muster I, III, jedoch ohne rot-weiß-roten Randstreifen'. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40267389/NOR40267389.html

This plate in your app

The series id is at-trailer-foreign. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Austria's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/at \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "at-trailer-foreign")'
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