British Columbia licence plate: Prorate
Issued today 2025 to today. Standard plates for truck and bus, 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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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9999P9, for example1007P8(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 and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- Bulletin 33 row "Prorate": current #####P, new ####P#, "Example of new pattern: 1234P5". A prorate plate is an International Registration Plan apportioned plate for interjurisdictional commercial carriers; the literal P is the type marker and moves from the tail to position 5.
Legal basis and sources
- Prorate row https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-prorate-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-prorate-2025")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-prorate-2025.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-prorate-2025/template.svg
