Switzerland license plate: Standard trailer

Format, years and the law

Format

LL 999999 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Canton letters and a number drawn from the same pool as the cars, no parser can tell a Swiss trailer from a Swiss car by the string, and even a 750 kg trailer needs its own plate. Only the plate's design differs, never the number.

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

Years issued

Documented since 1977; 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

300 × 160 mm · every country's size

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  Standard trailer 500×110 mm

  trailer · 500 × 110 mm

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  Standard trailer 300×80 mm

  trailer · 300 × 80 mm

About this plate

SWISS TRAILER PLATES. Trailers up to and including 750 kg still need their own plate in Switzerland, the Dutch "repeat the tractor's number on a white plate" rule has no Swiss equivalent, except that VZV Art. 72 Abs. 1 lit. c exempts certain agricultural and works trailers from registration altogether.

Legal basis and sources

1. VZV Art. 82 Abs. 1 lit. a (Anhänger take the white plate); Art. 83 Abs. 3 lit. a-b (Arbeitsanhänger 30x8, Transportanhänger 30x16 or 50x11); Art. 84 Abs. 2 (trailers share the motorcar number space); Art. 85 Abs. 1-2... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de
2. VVV Art. 13 Abs. 2 (Wechselschilder for trailers are not capped at two vehicles); Art. 22 Abs. 2bis (a towing vehicle's rear dealer plate may serve as the trailer's plate) https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1959/1271_1321_1317/de