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car license plate (number plate) definition

Last activity 15 July 2013 by itiberiu

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engineer12345

Hi All ,
I need number plate definition of cars here in Libya .
Would you please help me ?
regards

Sandman6

Plates with a yellow background are commercial vehicles - trucks, taxis etc.

Blue plates are PSV's (public service vehicles) - police, ambulance, fire etc

Red plates are diplomatic (embassy) vehicles

White plates with a blue square with a number on the right are vehicles owned by foreign registered companies, eg a blue square with a 12 is the Libyan branch of a German company.

Plain white plates are privately owned vehicles.

The Arabic writing on the plate translates as "Libyan Jamahiriya" or something similar...


This link is old, but shows most of them:

LIBYA CAR LICENSE PLATES

Expat Joe

Sandman6 wrote:

White plates with a blue square with a number on the right are vehicles owned by foreign registered companies, eg a blue square with a 12 is the Libyan branch of a German company.


It can also be a private car owned by a forein person.

11 - Egypt
12 - Germany
13 - Tunisia
14 - Lebanon
15 - Italy
16 - France
17 - Turkey
20 - UK
25 - China
28 - Spain

Keep.it.simple

To add something to that,

You can see a plate with a number like 28-5 then few digits gathered together. Anyway, digit 5 refers to Tripoli and 28 is hay Alandalus

Another e.g. 45-5.. 45 is center of Tripoli and 5 is Tripoli
Note, the digit 5 in your company's car which refers to Tripoli

Mudman

Usually the car behind me is so close I can't see the number plate, but can smell what the driver had for breakfast. :)

Doctor X

Hahahaha , Mudman ,, What would you smell. Bazeen ..

Samakauk

Mudman wrote:

Usually the car behind me is so close I can't see the number plate, but can smell what the driver had for breakfast. :)


made me LOL

Clansman

Mudman wrote:

Usually the car behind me is so close I can't see the number plate, but can smell what the driver had for breakfast. :)


:lol: Or the fact that he has an intense dislike for deodorant :P

vozdovac

19-Serbia
50-Bosnia

osama

there are good drivers behind you they want to read your car plate number
so what do think about libyan drivers they can make real movie in Hollywood without casualty
top gear

osama

hi
as for local the number plate as flow
for example 7-5-12112
7 for area bin ashor 
5 for town Tripoli
12112  record number for traffic police

itiberiu

54- Romania

:)

karen

Hello itiberiu.

Please note that this is an old thread.

Thanks

Karen :)

itiberiu

Yep, i noticed that! But the numbers is still the same

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