Mexico license plate: Private truck 2016

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

Mexico license plate, Private truck 2016 (2016 to today), sample HE-1357-F

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999-L, for example HE-1357-F (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.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Private TRUCK, TRACTOCAMIÓN and GRÚA registrations of the 31 states, a different serial space from the private car series and a different shape, which is what lets a Mexican decoder tell a camión from an automóvil without any other signal.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 9 'Camiones, AA-0000-A' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice A Figura 19 'Transporte Privado Camión, Tractocamión y Grúas Entidades Federativas' (siete caracteres) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  3. Apéndice C per-entity truck ranges (AA-0001-A … AF-9999-Z Aguascalientes, etc.) 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-private-truck-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-private-truck-2016")'