Japan license plate: Dealer transport
Issued today 1951 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle, issued by 国土交通省 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). One of 47 Japan license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99-99, for example48-65(9 any digit)- 運輸支局等を表示する文字
- 四けた以下の数字
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1951 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 330 × 165 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE RED-FRAMED TRADE PLATE (回送運行許可番号標), issued to dealers and transporters against a 回送運行許可証 so that unregistered vehicles can be moved. It is the plate most often confused with the temporary-operation plate, and the instrument separates them cleanly: a red FRAME here (Form No. 5 remark (3)) against a red DIAGONAL there (Form No. 3 remark (4)).
Legal basis and sources
- 第三十六条の二: the 回送運行許可 regime, a permit held by a business rather than granted for one journey https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185
- 第二十六条の六第一項 + 第五号様式: remark (1) (office mark above, four-or-fewer digits below, plus the frame), remark (2) (the Form No. 3 office table), remark (3) (「白地に黒文字とし、枠は赤色とすること」), remark (8) (275 mm mounting-hole spacing on... https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326M50000800074
This plate in your app
The series id is jp-dealer-transport. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Japan's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/jp \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "jp-dealer-transport")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/jp/jp-dealer-transport.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/jp/jp-dealer-transport/template.svg
