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Florida license plate: Wrecker

Issued today Documented since 1997. Standard plates for truck, issued by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). One of 10 Florida license plates.

Florida (United States) license plate, Wrecker (documented since 1997), sample XBL 124
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example XBL 124 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The serial is ordinary; the word "Wrecker" along the bottom is the code, Florida legislates its bottom legends, and this one marks a tow truck.

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

Years issued
Documented since 1997; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck.
Colours
Characters #1D6B45
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
WRECKER (tow truck) PLATES. Completes the five statutory bottom legends, Apportioned, Restricted, Dealer, Manufacturer, Wrecker, which together are the whole of Florida's legend taxonomy and, notably, are legislated rather than left to departmental design; four of the five stood by 1997, and Manufacturer was born 1999 (ch. 99-248).

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 320.06(3)(a): the 'Wrecker' bottom legend and its § 320.08(5)(d)-(e) tax hook https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0320/Sections/03...
  2. 320.08(5)(d) or (e) must be imprinted with the word "Wrecker" at the bottom', the legend series existed by 1997 http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0320/SEC06.HTM&StatuteYea...

This plate in your app

The series id is us-fl-wrecker. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Florida's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-fl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-fl-wrecker")'
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