British Columbia licence plate: Trailer utility
Issued today 2025 to today. Trailer plates, 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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9ULLL9, for example5URXW5(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
- 2025 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#12326EBackground#FFFFFF - About this plate
- Bulletin 33 row "Utility Trailer": current U####A, new #U@@@#, "Example of new pattern: 1UABC2". The literal U is a TYPE MARKER that survives the recut but MOVES from position 1 to position 2, and note the collision it creates with fact 2 above: U is simultaneously a newly admitted SERIAL letter elsewhere in the system from 2025. A parser must not read "contains U" as "utility trailer"; only "U in position 2 of a six-character serial" carries that meaning, and even that is a shape hit. Trailers are barred from personalised plates (reg. 34.05(1)(f)).
Legal basis and sources
- Utility Trailer row https://partners.icbc.com/assets/5GMseymkqs8E4Otb8osoGQ/bulletin-33-new-licence-plate-configurations.pdf
- reg. 34.05(1)(f) https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/26_58_10
This plate in your app
The series id is ca-bc-trailer-utility-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-trailer-utility-2025")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-trailer-utility-2025.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ca-bc/ca-bc-trailer-utility-2025/template.svg
