These plates are issued to carpool commuter vans transporting passengers to work, such as the “Easy Street” vans seen around the state.
This type started in 1980. The officially-issued plates have always been blue on white, changing to the generic “blue fade” base in 2000.
These are class code 19 in the DMV system.
Shortly after this type was introduced, Van Pool became Vanpool.
1980s Sample, with a mix of round and square 0s
ca. 1980 Revalidated to 1986
1981
Revalidated to 1990
1986
Map base, ca. 1990s
ca. 2000s