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Estonia license plate: Transit D1

Issued today Documented since 2011. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration). One of 20 Estonia license plates.

Estonia license plate, Transit D1 (documented since 2011), sample NK-7484
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example NK-7484 (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
Documented since 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #E1341E Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE CAR TRANSIT PLATE. Three things make it unlike anything else in the file and all three are sourced: the ground is VÄRVITU (colourless) rather than white, the symbols are RED, and a hyphen is actually printed and dimensioned. Its smaller sibling D2 loses a digit and 100 mm of width and is a separate series.
Separators
A HYPHEN IS DRAWN, and dimensioned. Näidis 14 shows "ED-2345" with the separator given its own callouts, 44 mm wide, 11 mm high, sitting in a 25 mm gap between a 151 mm letter field and a 221 mm digit field. This is one of only two Estonian types that print a separator glyph at all, so the pattern spells a literal hyphen rather than a space.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)12) type D1 'autode transiitmärk'; § 5(2) retroreflection exemption; § 6(2)-(4) the pairwise A/M/W rules for D1 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. Lisa 1 row D1: kirja tüüp 2, M/N, 'Värvitu aluspõhi, punased sümbolid', 520x113, näidis 14 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa1_m49.pdf
  3. näidis 14, 'ED-2345' with the hyphen dimensioned 44 x 11 mm https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-transit-d1. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Estonia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ee \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ee-transit-d1")'
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