Mexico license plate: Public bus

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

Mexico license plate, Public bus (2016 to today), sample W-41046-C

Format, years and the law

Format
L-99999-L, for example W-41046-C (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
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for bus.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Público-local BUSES of the entidades federativas, the state-concession urban and intercity bus fleets. Seven characters with a five-digit middle group, a shape no other Mexican series uses.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Tabla C row 11 'Autobuses, A-00000-A'; Apéndice A Figura 27 https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-public-bus-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-public-bus-2016")'