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Portugal license plate: Trailer

Issued today Documented since 2005. Trailer plates for trailer and semitrailer, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, Trailer (documented since 2005), sample E-314427
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Format, years and the law

Format
L-999999, for example E-314427 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Portugal's one geographic plate: the prefix letter names the district office that registered the trailer, L Lisboa, P Porto, twenty-one codes in all, while every Portuguese car carries a meaningless counter. The letter records the issuing office, not where the trailer works.

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

Years issued
Documented since 2005; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PORTUGUESE TRAILERS ARE DECODABLE AND PORTUGUESE CARS ARE NOT. The prefix names the district office that issued the registration, not the trailer's base, not the towing vehicle's plate. The composition is demonstrably older, and the proof is inside the same instrument: Anexo II Modelo V, the model governing numbers issued UP TO 31-12-1991, is drawn as "L-10978". Contrast Spain, where the trailer letter is a fixed R prefix and the province code trails; here the letter IS the geography and there is no fixed prefix.

Legal basis and sources

  1. DL 54/2005 Regulamento art. 4.º n.os 1-2: 'O número de matrícula dos reboques é constituído por uma ou duas letras identificadoras do serviço regional que procedeu à matrícula, seguidas de um número de ordem', with... https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
  2. DL 106/2006 art. 1.º n.º 3: replaces Anexo I, the current code list. https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2006/06/111a00/40524060.pdf
  3. DL 2/2020 Anexo, ANEXO V Modelo III, Reboques: the current trailer plate model, drawn as 'L 808970' with the EU band and no dash. https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2020/01/00900/0000400012.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pt-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Portugal's series:

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