Pennsylvania license plate: Dealer
Issued today Documented since 2017. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Motor Vehicles (PennDOT). One of 9 Pennsylvania license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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H99-999H, for exampleH91-699H(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 2017; 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 bracketing letter is the interesting structural fact - Pennsylvania's dealer serial is the only one in this group whose first and last characters are constrained to be equal, which is a grammar no simple width-and-alphabet model can express.
Legal basis and sources
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Pennsylvania
This plate in your app
The series id is us-pa-dealer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Pennsylvania's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-pa \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-pa-dealer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-dealer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-pa/us-pa-dealer/template.svg
