Alabama license plate: Dealer
Issued today Documented since 2021. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division (ALDOR MVD). One of 5 Alabama license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99999, for example56457(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 2021; 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, and motorcycle.
- Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- Two things are worth carrying forward. First, the dealer serial is NOT county-coded, which makes it the clean counter-example inside Alabama to the "leading digits are a county" rule and a trap for any decoder that applies the county table indiscriminately.
Legal basis and sources
- ALDOR's catalogue carries 'Dealer & Manufacturer' as one of its fourteen plate categories, establishing that Alabama serializes dealer plates separately https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/license-plates/
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alabama
- the Heart of Dixie requirement that reaches 'every license plate' https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/License-Plate-Design-Specifications-040821.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is us-al-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alabama's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-al \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-al-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-al/us-al-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-al/us-al-dealer/template.svg
