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Non-Passenger License Plates
Page V: Truck and Trailer Types

Apportioned Commercial (Truck)

Apportioned
First Issued: c.2000
Current Type Designation: AP prefix


Apportioned plate no. AP-0167
  

Apportioned plate no. AP-0508
 

Due to its small size and number of commercial trucks based within its borders, it's not surprising that Washington, D.C. was the last American jurisdiction to introduce plates of this type. Apportioned plates are issued for use on commercial vehicles that travel across state lines. Registration fees are apportioned to jurisdictions in which the vehicle is operated based upon records of mileage travelled maintained by the owner.

The first District of Columbia apportioned plates have embossed characters that are painted black, whereas by 2009 they were being issued in the flat style with blue figures. Plates of this type are validated with a sticker affixed to the plate, not to the windshield.

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Commercial (Truck)
Earliest Known: 1927
Current Type Designation: C prefix

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Solid Waste
First Issued: unknown
Current Type Designation: SW prefix


1984 base solid waste plate no. SW-899
  
Plates of this type have been issued, at least since the mid-1990s, for use exclusively on privately-owned refuse collection trucks. Residential trash is collected by city employees in trucks registered with D.C. Government plates, and many private trash haulers (who collect refuse generated by businesses) are based in Maryland and Virginia (the vehicles of which must therefore carry a D.C. Solid Waste permit). The number of D.C.-based trucks that are registered with Solid Waste plates is quite small, so the plates are rather scarce.

 

Trailer
Earliest Known: 1932

Current Type Designation: T prefix


1932 Trailer plate no. 672

1934 Trailer plate no. 305
 
The first year of issue for this type is unknown. Because 1927-34 plates with only a T prefix were issued for use on private passenger cars, a TR prefix was used to identify trailer plates before 1935, when the type name TRAILER was first embossed.

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1957 (exp. 3-31-58) Trailer plate no. T-371
1958 (exp. 3-31-59) Trailer plate no. T-295
1959 (exp. 3-31-60) Trailer plate no. T-521
1960 (exp. 3-31-61) Trailer plate no. T-236
     
1961 (exp. 3-31-62) Trailer plate no. T-1521
1962 (exp. 3-31-63) Trailer plate no. T-1430

1964 (exp. 3-31-65) Trailer plate no. T-1289
     
1973 (exp. 3-31-74) Trailer plate no. T-3541
1974 base Trailer plate no. T-386
2009 Trailer plate no. T-18276

 


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