Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 6 motorcycle

Issued today 2011 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 6 motorcycle (2011 to today), sample 44-MY-MZ

Format, years and the law

Format
99-ML-LL, for example 44-MY-MZ (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
2011 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
210 × 143 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 6 for MOTORCYCLES, from 19-08-2011, eleven years after the same pattern reached cars (20-01-2000). The 210x143 mm plate also serves three-wheelers, agricultural vehicles, MMBS, mobile machines and agricultural trailers.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Motoren: serie 6, combinatie 99-XX-XX, ingangsdatum 19-08-2011 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Motoren: eerste letter M https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat
  3. motorkentekenplaat 210x143 mm https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/soorten-kentekenplaten

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode6-motorcycle. 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-sidecode6-motorcycle")'