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Alberta licence plate: Trailer

Issued today Documented since 2002. Trailer plates, issued by Registrar of Motor Vehicle Services, Government of Alberta (plates issued through registry agents). One of 8 Alberta license plates.

Alberta (Canada) license plate, Trailer (documented since 2002), sample 9830-OQ
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999-LL, for example 9830-OQ (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
Documented since 2002; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
Colours
Characters #1B3F8B Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
AR 320/2002 s. 68: a trailer plate may be transferred between trailers of the same owner with the Registrar's consent (s. 68(1)) but never "from one trailer owner to another" (s. 68(2)); a trailer-rental business may not rent out a trailer without a trailer plate on it (s. 68(3)). s. 69 adds the Alberta oddity: the Registrar "may issue a TRAILER licence plate to the owner of a COMMERCIAL VEHICLE if the owner is engaged in the business of towing trailers", and that owner "may attach the trailer licence plate to a trailer towed by the commercial vehicle", a trailer plate bound to the tractor's operator rather than to any trailer.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ss. 68(1)-(3), 69(1)-(2) https://kings-printer.alberta.ca/documents/Regs/2002_320.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-ab-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alberta's series:

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