New Zealand number plate: Trailer 2024

Issued today 2024 to today. Trailer plates for trailer and caravan, issued by NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (the Registrar of Motor Vehicles under Part 17 of the Land Transport Act 1998). One of 18 New Zealand number plates.

New Zealand license plate, Trailer 2024 (2024 to today), sample 4JU44

Format, years and the law

Format
9LL99, for example 4JU44 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
  • character 1: a numeral
  • characters 2-3: two letters
  • characters 4-5: two numerals

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2024 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and caravan.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
Everything here except the arrangement and the year is instrument-sourced.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Zealand
  2. reg 33(1)(a) the five-character cap, 33(4)(b) the colours, 39(2) the single rear plate, everything about this series EXCEPT its arrangement https://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2011/0079/latest/whole.html

This plate in your app

The series id is nz-trailer-2024. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Zealand's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/nz \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "nz-trailer-2024")'