# Italy license plate: Repeater

> The Italy repeater license plate: format LLR999LL, for example QNR321RG, documented since 1993, trailer. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Italy license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy) (20 registration series).

![Italy license plate, Repeater (documented since 1993)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-repeater/italy-license-plate-repeater.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLR999LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1993 → today (documented from 1993; the format is likely older) |
| Class | trailer |
| Issued for | trailer |
| Plate size | 486 × 109 mm |
| Other sizes | 336 × 202 mm: formato B where the mounting cannot take formato A; 340 × 109 mm: repeater plates for agricultural trailers and trailed operating machines (art. 258 c. 1 lett. d)) |
| Colours | background #FFCC00; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `it-repeater` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/repeater) |

Sources:

- [Appendice XII lett. h) and i) and comma 3 in full; art. 258 c. 1 lett. c) and d); art. 260 c. 1 lett. a) and c. 2](https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802)
- [art. 100 c. 4: 'I carrelli appendice, quando sono agganciati ad una motrice, devono essere muniti posteriormente di una targa ripetitrice dei dati di immatricolazione della motrice stessa'](https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art100)

## About this plate

THE TARGA RIPETITRICE, an owner-filled yellow plate that repeats the towing vehicle's mark, carried by carrelli appendice, agricultural trailers and trailed operating machines. Three facts make it worth its own entry rather than a footnote: it is the ONLY Italian plate with no marchio; it is the only one whose characters are applied by the owner rather than the State; and it contains the single best piece of decode trivia in Italian plate law, Appendice XII comma 3: "Nel caso in cui la targa del veicolo traente contenga la parola Roma essa viene riportata sulla targa ripetitrice mediante la sigla RM." Rome's provincial plates spelled the city out in full, and the repeater plate is where the abbreviation had to be legislated.

## About the format

Appendice XII lett. h): "targa ripetitrice per carrelli appendice: riporta, nell'ordine, due caratteri alfabetici, la lettera 'R', e sei caratteri alfanumerici". Lett. i) gives five alphanumerics for agricultural trailers and trailed operating machines. As enacted in 1992 both were narrower, lett. h) read "tre caratteri numerici e due caratteri alfabetici", and D.P.R. 610/1996 widened them, which is why one open series is modelled rather than two.

## Other trailer plates here

- [Trailer 2013](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/trailer-2013) (documented since 2013)
- [Trailer 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/trailer-1993) (documented 1993 to 2013)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-repeater.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/italy?series=it-repeater
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "it-repeater"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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