Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 4 semitrailer

Issued today 1988 to today. Trailer plates for semitrailer, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 4 semitrailer (1988 to today), sample ON-46-FV

Format, years and the law

Format
OL-99-LL, for example ON-46-FV (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
1988 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 4 for SEMI-TRAILERS, from 01-10-1988, same pattern and same date as trailers but a different letter space, which is why RDW publishes them as two tables and why they are two series here.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Opleggers: serie 4, combinatie XX-99-XX, ingangsdatum 01-10-1988 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Opleggers: eerste letter O; no-vowels rule excepted for opleggers https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode4-semitrailer. 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-sidecode4-semitrailer")'