Mexico license plate: Federal freight

Issued today 2016 to today. Standard plates for truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Federal freight (2016 to today), sample 96-TC-7Y

Format, years and the law

Format
99-LL-9L, for example 96-TC-7Y (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
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck, bus, and trailer.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
FOUR distinct Tabla C modalities share this one order, carga/pasaje/turismo, transfronterizo de carga, transporte internacional de largo recorrido, and grúas de arrastre, separated only by their Apéndice C range blocks.
How numbers are issued
Apéndice C allocates the federal space by traffic: carga 01-AA-1A … 99-CZ-9Z (motrices) and 01-TX-1A … 99-VZ-9Z (remolques); pasaje 01-HA-1A … 99-JZ-9Z; turismo 01-RA-1A … 99-RZ-9Z; con inversión extranjera, arrendamiento, transfronterizo and internacional each get their own blocks. The SECOND GROUP is the discriminator.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 1 'Autotransporte Federal, Carga, Pasaje y Turismo, con inversión extranjera, arrendamiento …, 00-AA-0A' (also Transfronterizo de carga, Transporte Internacional Largo Recorrido, and Grúas de Arrastre) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice A Figura 1 'Para vehículos Motrices y Remolques del Servicio de Autotransporte Federal (Carga, Pasaje, Turismo y Arrendamiento)' (seis caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  3. Apéndice C 'SERVICIO DE AUTOTRANSPORTE FEDERAL (CARGA, PASAJE Y TURISMO)' range blocks https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-federal-freight-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-federal-freight-2016")'