Belgium license plate: Trailer 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2010. Trailer plates, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Trailer 2001 (documented 2001 to 2010), sample USC-288

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example USC-288 (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 2001 to 2010; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE BELGIAN TRAILER PLATE, 01-10-2001 to 14-11-2010, and the reason this file insists on the euroband finding: for nine years a Belgian TRAILER carried the twelve stars and the "B" while the CAR TOWING IT did not, because art. 4 § 4 specified a European symbol and art. 4 § 1 did not. It was also bigger (520 x 110 against the car's 340 x 110) and a different colour (black against red). Trade plates (art. 10) were the other pre-2010 euroband carrier.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 4 § 4 as published 08-08-2001: the U/Q letter groups, 520 x 110 mm, black on white, the European symbol with its 100 x 45 mm blue zone, and the character metrics https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article_body.pl?language=fr&caller=summary&pub_date=01-08-08&numac=2001014154

This plate in your app

The series id is be-trailer-2001. 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-trailer-2001")'