Egypt license plate: Taxi

Issued today 2008 to today. Taxi plates for car and van, issued by الإدارة العامة للمرور. One of 11 Egypt license plates.

Egypt license plate, Taxi (2008 to today), sample 8354 BFI

Format, years and the law

Format
9999 LLL, for example 8354 BFI (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2008 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car and van.
About this plate
For-hire vehicles, including «أجرة سياحة» (tourist hire) under art. 340 خامسا. Orange is one of the colours that survives the 2008 redesign from whole-plate ground to top band.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20251010130322/https://traffic.moi.gov.eg/Arabic/OurServices/InfoServices/InteriorMiniste...
  2. egyptmint.gov.eg http://www.egyptmint.gov.eg/Home/Plates

This plate in your app

The series id is eg-taxi-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Egypt's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/eg \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "eg-taxi-2008")'