Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 4 trailer

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

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 4 trailer (1988 to today), sample WX-50-XW

Format, years and the law

Format
WL-99-LL, for example WX-50-XW (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 trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 4 trailer 340×210 mm (1988 to today)

    Sidecode 4 trailer 340×210 mm

    trailer · 340 × 210 mm

About this plate
Sidecode 4 for TRAILERS AND CARAVANS over 750 kg, from 01-10-1988, the oldest continuously-issuing NL series on RDW's table, still not exhausted after 38 years.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Aanhangwagens: serie 4, combinatie XX-99-XX, ingangsdatum 01-10-1988 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Aanhangwagens: eerste letter W https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat
  3. 'Het kenteken van een aanhangwagen begint altijd met de letter W'; >750 kg = eigen kenteken https://www.rdw.nl/zakelijke-partners/erkende-bedrijven/kentekenplaatfabrikanten/extra-eisen-per-kleur-en-model/kente...

This plate in your app

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