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Germany license plate: Dealer red

Issued today Documented since 2007. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, set by the Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV). One of 13 Germany license plates.

Germany license plate, Dealer red (documented since 2007), sample HO-06178
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-06999, for example HO-06178 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

After the district code, the first two digits do the talking: every red dealer plate's number opens with 06. Block neighbours: 05 belongs to the technical inspectorates, 07 to the classics. The plate follows the business and hops between its cars.

06
rote Kennzeichen für Probe- und Überführungsfahrten (dealer test- and transfer-run block)

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

Years issued
Documented since 2007; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FF0000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Also worth recording: FZV 2023 § 41 Abs. 4 gives technical inspection bodies the "05" block, an unmodelled sibling series (05 = Prüfstellen) sharing this format.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 41: Prüfungs-, Probe- und Überführungsfahrten; Abs. 1 the red-on-white colour rule; Abs. 2 assignment to trustworthy manufacturers, parts makers, workshops, dealers and trailer makers (plus THW, Bundespolizei, BKA,... https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__41.html
  2. Anlage 4 Abschnitt 7: red script and red border; Anlage 13 is the Fahrzeugscheinheft https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/anlage_4.html
  3. FZV vom 25.4.2006, BGBl. I S. 988, the '06' rule verbatim ('... nur aus Ziffern und beginnt mit "06"'), in force 1.3.2007 (Art. 12 Abs. 2). PERIOD UPPER BOUND. https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/2006/bgbl1_2006_21.pdf
  4. 27. ÄndVstVR vom 9.3.1998, BGBl. I S. 441, Art. 1 amends the § 28 StVZO rote-Kennzeichen machinery ('Für die mit roten Kennzeichen versehenen ...') and, per its other articles in force 1.5.1998, ends red-plate... https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/1998/bgbl1_1998_14.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is de-dealer-red. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Germany's series:

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