Sweden license plate: Taxi T

Retired 1998 to 2017. Taxi plates for car, van, and bus, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Taxi T (1998 to 2017), sample DDZ 764

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example DDZ 764 (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
1998 to 2017. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car, van, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #DC9D00
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Sweden license plate, Taxi T 300×110 mm (1998 to 2017)

    Taxi T 300×110 mm

    taxi · 300 × 110 mm

Legal basis and sources

  1. rkrattsdb.gov.se https://rkrattsdb.gov.se/SFSdoc/98/980788.PDF
  2. SFS register: 'Ändring, SFS 1998:788 ... https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfsr?bet=1972%3A599&upph=true
  3. Transportstyrelsen news 2017-04-03, archived capture 2017-04-08: 'Taxiskyltens utseende förändras från och med den 1 april 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170408075118/http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/Nyhetsarkiv/inte-langre-nagra-t-pa-tax...
  4. Transportstyrelsen publication 201.143 (U07), March 2014: 'Taxiskylt ... Bokstaven T anges till höger om registreringsnumret. Mått: 520 x 110 mm. https://web.archive.org/web/20160519223846if_/http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/globalassets/global/publikationer/vag/...

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is se-taxi-t-1998. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Sweden's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/se \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "se-taxi-t-1998")'