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Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 5 heavy commercial

Issued today 1994 to today. Standard plates for truck and bus, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 5 heavy commercial (1994 to today), sample BY-ZW-72
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Format, years and the law

Format
BL-LL-99, for example BY-ZW-72 (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
1994 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 5 for HEAVY COMMERCIAL vehicles, from 03-01-1994.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Zware bedrijfsauto's: serie 5, combinatie XX-XX-99, ingangsdatum 03-01-1994 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Zware bedrijfsauto's (boven 3500 kg): eerste letter B https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode5-heavycommercial. 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-sidecode5-heavycommercial")'
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