Mexico license plate: Private truck 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2016. Standard plates for truck, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Private truck 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016), sample DH-68-165

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-99-999, for example DH-68-165 (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 2001 to 2016; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
One-back private TRUCK format of the entidades federativas. Two letters and a 2+3 digit split, replaced in 2016 by AA-0000-A, which keeps the two leading letters and moves to a single four-digit block plus a check letter.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice C row 8 'Camiones, AA-00-000' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=774741&fecha=26/01/2001

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-private-truck-2001. 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-private-truck-2001")'