British Columbia Commercial Truck License Plates

British Columbia Commercial Truck License Plates
1979 - 1986

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Unfortunately, there are no records available for the 1979 Commercial Truck base, so we are left to present a gallery showing each of the known and assumed letter suffixes. We have not idea where the series started, but think the "F" block is a safe bet or when each of the letter combinations came out.

F- Suffix

	FG
		FM

		FX

Alternate Base Materials

The plates pictured above show how the province experimented with both a Reflectorized base plate for commercial vehicles (at left) in the early 1980s, and the more traditional painted white base plate (at right). It is not clear who the manufacturer of each plate was, but it is assumed to be different companies due to the dies used on each plate.

G- Suffix
GA


	GR	GS

GY

H- Suffix
	HB
		HG
			HM
HN	HP	HR
HT	HV

J- Suffix
	JB	JC


			JS
	JV

K- Suffix


KJ

Error Plates

It is not often you find a British Columbia error plate, but the exampleS shown above are just such rare birds. As can be see, the plates display a two letter prefix, whereas the series otherwise uses a two letter suffix - such as is shown in the Gallery above.

It is not clear how many plates were affected by this misplacement of the letters in the registration number, or if they were ever even issued to motorists. The three known examples from the mid-'KR' blolc are known, while a later example from the 'KT' bloc also exists (but appears to have not been issued).