Norway license plate: Dealer day

Issued today Documented since 1990. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Dealer day (documented since 1990), sample ZS 146

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example ZS 146 (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
Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #CC0000
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE DAY TRADE PLATE, black on red, the inverse of the annual plate's white on red, which is the whole visual distinction between them.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd f: black characters on red for dagsprøvekjennemerke. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. forskrift 18. juni 1998 nr. 589, in force 1 July 1998: adds the single-use variant, 'Engangs dagsprøvekjennemerke skal ha sorte tegn på rød bunn', at § 2-5 nr. 2 f. https://lovdata.no/dokument/LTI/forskrift/1998-06-18-589
  3. Statens vegvesen: dagsprøvekjennemerke costs 340 kr per 24 hours, is issued as adhesive foil, and the purchaser must be at least 16. https://www.vegvesen.no/kjoretoy/eie-og-vedlikeholde/skilt/proveskilt/

This plate in your app

The series id is no-dealer-day-1990. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-dealer-day-1990")'