Alaska license plate: Dealer
Issued today Documented since 2026. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 13 Alaska license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL999, for exampleUEH715(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2026; 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, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- The two-plate display requirement is the fact worth carrying: if Alaska now issues one plate to passenger vehicles, then a two-plate vehicle on an Alaska road is a strong signal of dealer or commercial status.
- Permitted use
- AS 28.10.181(j), from the December 2007 reproduction: a state-registered and bonded vehicle dealer may apply for dealer plates, usable "only on dealer-owned vehicles during the routine and normal course of the dealer's business, EXCLUDING SERVICE VEHICLES, or for transporting an unregistered vehicle from a port of entry to the dealer's facilities or from one dealer to another or, in the case of a house trailer, from the retail facility to a trailer space." A vehicle running on dealer plates "must be affixed with TWO plates issued under this subsection", which is notable given that Alaska now issues one plate to ordinary passenger vehicles: the dealer plate may be the state's remaining two-plate case. After a sale the buyer may use the dealer plates for NOT MORE THAN FIVE DAYS. The department may seize plates it believes are being used to defeat the chapter.
Legal basis and sources
- AS 28.10.181(j) dealer plates: eligibility, the permitted-use list, the service-vehicle exclusion, the two-plate display rule, the five-day post-sale window and the seizure power; (a) the plate-with-owner default and... https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section181.htm
- the DMV's dealer pages, which front the dealer-plate application (form 'dealer-license-plate-application') https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://dmv.alaska.gov/vehicle-services/
This plate in your app
The series id is us-ak-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alaska's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ak \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ak-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-ak/us-ak-dealer/template.svg
