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Spain license plate: Trailer

Issued today Documented since 1999. Trailer plates for trailer and semitrailer, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Trailer (documented since 1999), sample R1880ZJK
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Format, years and the law

Format
R9999LLL, for example R1880ZJK (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading R stands for Remolque, trailers and semi-trailers carry a red-background plate of their own on top of the towing vehicle's.

R
Remolque (trailer)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1999; 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 #CE1126
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Trailer 340×220 mm (documented since 1999)

    Trailer 340×220 mm

    trailer · 340 × 220 mm

About this plate
REMOLQUES Y SEMIRREMOLQUES, a RED plate with black characters, the inverse of the special-vehicle plate. Trailers over 750 kg carry this plus a second plate on the right bearing the towing vehicle's registration (Anexo XVIII III.4). Trailers and semi-trailers share one series here because Anexo XVIII treats them in one subparagraph with one prefix letter, contrast the Netherlands, where W and O split them. PREDECESSOR RECORDED AS A GAP (redate pass): the Código as rewritten by Decreto 2046/1971 already gave trailers a dedicated format, art. 231.II, verbatim, "la letra R, un número que irá desde el 1 al 999.999 y la contraseña de la provincia donde se matricule el vehículo", on a red reflective ground (art. 230.II), i.e. R-NNNNNN-PP, 1971-1999.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.A.c): 'El fondo de las placas será retrorreflectante, de color rojo. Los caracteres estampados en relieve irán pintados en color negro mate'; letter R + number + 3 letters; Cuadro 1 dimensions https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-trailer-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-trailer-1999")'
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