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Car owners surprised because 'cars will have truck license plates' from 2025

University (according to VnExpress) January 10, 2025 09:17

Many car owners were surprised and even frustrated because their newly registered billion-dollar car had a license plate with the letter C, which was previously a truck license plate.

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Fadil has D license plate - previously reserved for vans

Mr. Viet Hung (Cau Giay, Hanoi), owner of a Fadil, was surprised when he registered his car in early 2025 and received a license plate with the letter D, a type previously used for van trucks. Or a Honda City owner in Hanoi or a billion-dollar Everest in Nghe An had a license plate K, which is usually used for trucks.

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City wears K license plate - previously reserved for trucks

Mr. Hung and many car owners were surprised and unhappy when receiving the new license plate because they have used many cars and understand the types of license plates for each car model. Previously, in 2022, many people who bought Ford Ranger Raptor cars expressed their dissatisfaction because they had to wear the C license plate of a truck after 3 years of wearing the A, H license plate of a car.

Before 2024, although not regulated in the circular on license plates, the police agencies in provinces and cities often assign letters to each type of vehicle according to type and are quite similar in each locality. For example, a car in Hanoi with license plate letter A is a car, a passenger car with license plate letter B, a truck with license plate letter C/H/K. Or in Ho Chi Minh City, a car with license plate letter A is also a car, a truck with license plate number C/D/M, a passenger car with license plate number B. If the license plate number in the warehouse runs out, it will be changed to another letter. For example, if the registration number for a car with license plate number A is exhausted, a car can have license plate number B, C, D.

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Everest wears C license plate - previously reserved for trucks

But from 2025, when the Ministry of Public Security implements the full-process online vehicle registration (all stages are online) for newly assembled and imported cars, the regulation on letters assigned to each type of vehicle will no longer apply.

An officer at the Road Motor Vehicle Registration and Management Team, under the Traffic Police Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police, said that the practice of not using letters to assign to a specific vehicle model will begin in 2025. "The automatic license plate system will randomly assign any letters that are still in the license plate warehouse to the vehicle owner," he said.

In addition to cars, buses, and trucks with mixed letters, special vehicles still use letters to distinguish, according to Circular 81/2024 of the Ministry of Public Security on license plates. For example, CD is issued to specialized motorbikes, RM is issued to trailers and semi-trailers, HC is issued to cars with limited operating range, KT is issued to vehicles of military enterprises that are requested to be registered by the Department of Vehicles and Machinery, Ministry of National Defense.

With this change, many sales consultants said that some people who have used many cars are not interested in a car with a truck license plate, while for first-time car buyers, this is not too important. Meanwhile, with the way of mixing letters, the auction license plate warehouse will be more abundant, thereby expecting the auction cost for beautiful plates to be more comfortable, many people can access the license plate as desired.

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Car owners surprised because 'cars will have truck license plates' from 2025