Belgium license plate: Taxi

Retired Documented 2010 to 2020. Taxi plates for car and van, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Taxi (documented 2010 to 2020), sample 8-TXW-510

Format, years and the law

Format
9-TXL-999, for example 8-TXW-510 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented 2010 to 2020; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #9B111E Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Taxi 340×210 mm (documented 2010 to 2020)

    Taxi 340×210 mm

    taxi · 340 × 210 mm

About this plate
DIV's personalised-plate reservation list names both "TX" and "TL", which is how the pre-2021 taxi convention survives into the modern T-Xxx / T-Lxx split.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the arrete ministeriel as published 08-08-2001, art. 4 § 5: the 'TX' letter group for taxis https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article_body.pl?language=fr&caller=summary&pub_date=01-08-08&numac=2001014154
  2. art. 3, which put a digit index in front of every ordinary inscription from 15-11-2010 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110801&table_name=loi
  3. mobilit.belgium.be https://mobilit.belgium.be/fr/route/immatriculer/plaque-personnalisee/introduction

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is be-taxi-2010. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Belgium's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/be \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "be-taxi-2010")'