New Brunswick licence plate: Commercial

Issued today 2011 to today. Standard plates for truck and van, issued by Motor Vehicle Branch, Department of Justice and Public Safety (New Brunswick); registration transacted through Service New Brunswick. One of 9 New Brunswick license plates.

New Brunswick (Canada) license plate, Commercial (2011 to today), sample CFE 449

Format, years and the law

Format
CLL 999, for example CFE 449 (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
2011 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck and van.
Colours
Characters #C8102E Background #FFFFFF
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
THE 4 500 KG HINGE IS THE PRIMARY PART: the same commercial serial wears one plate or two according to a statutory mass threshold, so plate COUNT is a mass signal in New Brunswick in a way it is not in Ontario (always two) or Québec (always one).
How numbers are issued
CRA 001 upward per the article's issuance record

Legal basis and sources

  1. MVA s. 29(1)(b): two plates at 4 500 kg or more; s. 33(2)(b): commercial-vehicle registration periods are set by regulation rather than by the 31 March rule https://web.archive.org/web/20251201033750/https://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cs/M-17/
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Brunswick

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-nb-commercial-2011. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Brunswick's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ca-nb \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ca-nb-commercial-2011")'