"Transporter" means a person regularly engaged in the business of transporting vehicles.

A Transporter's licence consists of a distinctive number plate corresponding to the licence which authorizes an individual to operate or tow any vehicle on the highway other than a vehicle owned by said transporter. A transporter number plate must be conspicuously displayed on every vehicle that is

(a) being delivered in the course of business of a transporter, and

(b) in direct contact with the highway.

It is thought that the first Transporter plates first started to appear in 1957, but there are few records of their existence until the 1960s. The plates are easily identifiable by the slogan Transporter that appear across the bottom of all plates until 1979 when it began to appear across the top. Since 1985, the plates have been issued in the familiar Flag Graphic style with a "TR" prefix, generally seen in the TR-0000 to TR-9999 format.

It is not easy to capture an image of a Transporter plate out in the wild and usually the vehicle has to be stopped (such as the shot of the plate on a vehicle in a ferry deck shown above).

In this case, our first shot of the "TS" prefix on a plate is compliments of a vehicle fire on Highway 1 west of Bridal Falls.

We hope the plates survived this incident!

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