District of Columbia license plate: Trailer
Issued today Documented since 1974. Trailer plates, issued by District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles (DC DMV). One of 10 District of Columbia license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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T-99999, for exampleT-64634(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 1974; 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.
- Separators
- THE DISTRICT FLAG IS THE SEPARATOR ON THIS SERIES. That is the THIRD graphic separator found in this group, after New Jersey's state outline and Maryland's War of 1812 flag device, and the pattern is now unmistakable: US jurisdictions routinely put a DEVICE where European ones put a hyphen.
Legal basis and sources
- DC DMV: trailers among the one-tag, rear-display exceptions https://dmv.dc.gov/service/dmv-vehicle-tags
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington,_D.C
This plate in your app
The series id is us-dc-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of District of Columbia's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-dc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-dc-trailer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-dc/us-dc-trailer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-dc/us-dc-trailer/template.svg
