Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 8 light commercial

Issued today 2009 to today. Standard plates for van, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 8 light commercial (2009 to today), sample 7-VWX-25

Format, years and the law

Format
9-VLL-99, for example 7-VWX-25 (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
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 8 for LIGHT COMMERCIAL vehicles, from 26-02-2009, four years ahead of the same pattern's car rollout. Campers registered as light commercial also carry V.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Lichte bedrijfsauto's: serie 8, combinatie 9-XXX-99, ingangsdatum 26-02-2009 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. Lichte bedrijfsauto's (tot 3500 kg): eerste letter V https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode8-lightcommercial. 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-sidecode8-lightcommercial")'