Finland license plate: Trailer plain

Issued today Documented since 1996. Trailer plates for trailer and semitrailer, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.

Finland license plate, Trailer plain (documented since 1996), sample ESX-103

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example ESX-103 (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 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
397 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Trailer plain trailer (documented since 1996)

    Trailer plain trailer

    trailer · 397 × 118 mm

About this plate
THE UNBANDED TRAILER PLATE. One size only (118 x 397), against three for a car, the sharpest design difference in the Finnish system between two plates that carry identical marks.

Legal basis and sources

  1. määräys § 3.2.2: one size only, 118 x 397, hyphen required, white or black ground https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 1598/1995 § 36(1)(a), trailers on the same letters-then-digits mark since at least 1.1.1996 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-trailer-plain. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Finland's series:

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