British Columbia licence plate: Industrial

Issued today 2025 to today. Standard plates for truck, issued by Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), as delegate of the Province under the Motor Vehicle Act. One of 13 British Columbia license plates.

British Columbia (Canada) license plate, Industrial (2025 to today), sample 7X7384

Format, years and the law

Format
9X9999, for example 7X7384 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2025 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck.
Colours
Characters #12326E Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Bulletin 33 row "Industrial": current X#####, new #X####, "Example of new pattern: 1X2345". Industrial plates are for machines used off-highway that make limited highway movements; Division 24 of B.C. Reg. 26/58 ("Vehicles of Unusual Size, Weight or Operating Characteristics") is the neighbouring regime and reg. 3.121 forbids moving plates between a Division 24 vehicle and any other class, a hard, sourced class boundary.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Industrial row https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
  2. reg. 3.121, reg. 3.13 classes of vehicles https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_01

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-bc-industrial-2025. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of British Columbia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-bc \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-bc-industrial-2025")'