Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor

Issued today 2021 to today. Agricultural plates for tractor and machine, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor (2021 to today), sample T-61-HDR

Format, years and the law

Format
T-99-LLL, for example T-61-HDR (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
2021 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 340×210 mm (2021 to today)

    Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 340×210 mm

    agricultural · 340 × 210 mm

  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 210×143 mm (2021 to today)

    Sidecode 12 agricultural tractor 210×143 mm

    agricultural · 210 × 143 mm

About this plate
Sidecode 12 for AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY TRACTORS, mobile machines and MMBS, from 01-12-2021, the NL agricultural registration obligation. Sidecode 12 reached tractors before it reached light commercials (2024) or special mopeds (2025).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Land- en bosbouwtrekkers (trekkend): serie 12, combinatie X-99-XXX, ingangsdatum 01-12-2021 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Land-/bosbouwtrekkers, mobiele machines, MMBS'en: eerste letter T https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat
  3. 520x110 / 340x210 / 210x143 for (land)bouwvoertuigen, MMBS, mobiele machines https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/soorten-kentekenplaten

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode12-agritractor. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Netherlands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/nl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "nl-sidecode12-agritractor")'