Michigan license plate: Trailer
Issued today Documented since 2026. Trailer plates, issued by Michigan Department of State (Secretary of State). One of 7 Michigan license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L999999, for exampleL985946(L is any letter, 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 2026; 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.
- About this plate
- The permanence is worth noting against the file-level ten-year renewal bar, a plate that is never renewed cannot be caught by a bar on renewal, so the trailer plate escapes Michigan's own lifetime rule by construction. That interaction is the kind of thing a claims model should be able to express.
- How numbers are issued
- observed D000000 to F134612 as of October 2024 (secondary)
- How long it is valid
- PERMANENT, the legend says so on the plate itself, which makes this a series whose end condition is the vehicle's, not the year's
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Michigan
- MCL 257.224's one-plate rule and reflectorization requirement apply to trailer plates as to others https://codes.findlaw.com/mi/chapter-257-motor-vehicles/mi-comp-laws-257-224.html
This plate in your app
The series id is us-mi-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Michigan's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-mi \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-mi-trailer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mi/us-mi-trailer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-mi/us-mi-trailer/template.svg
