New Jersey license plate: Dealer
Issued today Documented since 2014. Dealer plates for car, van, and truck, issued by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJ MVC). One of 11 New Jersey license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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DLL-99, for exampleDAU-93(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 2014; 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, and truck.
- About this plate
- The interesting reported feature is that the last two characters encode a YEAR, which would make the New Jersey dealer plate one of the few US serials with a TIME field in it.
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_Jersey
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nj-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of New Jersey's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nj \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nj-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nj/us-nj-dealer/template.svg
