Québec licence plate: Truck L

Issued today 1991 to today. Standard plates for truck and tractor, issued by Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ). One of 16 Québec license plates.

Québec (Canada) license plate, Truck L (1991 to today), sample L617429

Format, years and the law

Format
L999999, for example L617429 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1991 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck and tractor.
Colours
Characters #003DA5 Background #FFFFFF
Size
30 × 15 cm (300 × 150 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
Where the two disagree, and here they cannot, because the article gives no date, the instrument wins. The same reasoning fixes 1991 on the trailer, bus, restricted and off-road series below.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Règlement art. 110, verbatim: « La plaque d'immatriculation d'un camion et d'un véhicule de ferme dont la masse nette est de plus de 3 000 kg porte le préfixe “L”. », the article carries the base citation D. 1420-91... https://www.legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fr/document/rc/C-24.2,%20r.%2029
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Quebec

This plate in your app

The series id is ca-qc-truck-l. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Québec's series:

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