Iceland license plate: Trade

Issued today Documented since 2003. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.

Iceland license plate, Trade (documented since 2003), sample MN-610

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999, for example MN-610 (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 2003; 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 #000000 Background #CC0000
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
REYNSLUMERKI, the trade plate, bound to a business rather than a vehicle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 27. gr.: reynslumerki, red ground, black border, black characters. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Iceland

This plate in your app

The series id is is-trade-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-trade-2003")'