Wisconsin license plate: Trailer
Issued today Documented since 2026. Trailer plates, issued by Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles (WisDOT DMV). One of 8 Wisconsin license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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99999 ZA, for example15304 ZA(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
- This is the entry where Wisconsin's statutory fee-class-encoding instruction and the observed letter codes meet, which is a rare case in this group of a design fact being predicted by law rather than merely observed.
- How numbers are issued
- observed 1001Z/A to 15522Z/A as of 2024-03-07 (secondary)
Legal basis and sources
- Wis. Stat. 341.12(1) one plate for other vehicles; (2) the fee-class encoding instruction the letter codes implement https://codes.findlaw.com/wi/vehicles-ch-340-to-351/wi-st-341-12.html
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Wisconsin
- the stacked-character rule the ZA reading rests on https://www.aamva.org/getmedia/646bcc8a-219b-47d8-b5cd-726240473163/License-Plate-Standard-Edition-3_September-2025-U...
This plate in your app
The series id is us-wi-trailer. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Wisconsin's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-wi \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-wi-trailer")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-wi/us-wi-trailer.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-wi/us-wi-trailer/template.svg
