I can't remember ever having a front plate in NC. In Ohio we did, centuries ago.

Pennsylvania has never had more than one license plate.

Texas requires one coming and going. We've never been required to have that elsewhere.

Illinois requires front and back plates -- at least they did when I last renewed my driver's license. DH attended a class on Rules of the Road before going to take his driving test. They told people to have both plates; to set the parking brake; and to learn how to turn a car's wheels against a curb to prevent it from rolling down a hill if the brakes failed when the car was parked. We're flatlanders, so the last two requirements are foreign to us! My driving inspector took note of both plates and the parking brake, and I had to set the rear wheels against the curb, pretending I was parking in an uphill situation.

This reminds me of the day DH parked our rental car facing a curb in San Francisco and I opened my passenger door and fell out (downhill) onto the street.

California requires front and back plates too. I don't remember anytime during my lifetime when that wasn't the case but I'm not certain.

I was wondering if one license plate is going to change to two with automatic toll booths. If you have bikes or a rack on the back of the car/truck the plate will be blocked .

NY still has two.

Good point, Function.

WA state still requires both a front and back plate although exemptions are issued for cars where a front plate attachment is difficult or impossible.

I can't imagine any state not requiring front and back plates. But what a few said I guess it's true. I guess they'll get you coming or going, either way it's recorded.

"Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed,
computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street
poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to
police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate
numbers that come into view, along with the location, date, and time.
The data, which includes photographs of the vehicle and sometimes its
driver and passengers, is then uploaded to a central server." ALPRs

There is a way to defeat the camera's but I'll just keep it to myself.

"There is a way to defeat the camera's but I'll just keep it to myself."

Sure and the means of doing so is very widely known. People who concern themselves with such trivialities and potential small time rule breaking really need more important things in their lives to be concerned with.

One plate only in Florida.

Those plate reading cameras at toll booths do a fine job, even when towing an untagged trailer

Single plate in Oklahoma as well. Always has been.

One rear plate in Michigan. I have a vanity plate in front with my initials. DH has his nickname on the front plate. I see quite a few with the names of football teams in front.

On some vehicles I have just removed the front lic. plate frame and had nothing there.

One plate in TN, for cars on the back. If you have a 1 ton truck or larger you have to put that 1 plate on the front.

We haven't gotten a new *plate* in ages. We're issued a new sticker every year to put ON the plates.

2 plates here in Va....but be careful if you have a temp plate attached to your inside window, you may get pepper sprayed.

Thirty states require both a front and rear license plate.

https://www.autolist.com/guides/front-license-plate

• Alaska
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Dakota
• Oregon
• Rhode Island
• South Dakota
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

vgkg Z-7 Va Why would you get pepper sprayed because you have a temp plate?

^^^ Really?

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2021/04/video-cops-draw-guns-on-a-black-army-officer-pepper-spray-him-force-him-to-the-ground/

Yes, I renew my registration every year on my birthday and receive a new sticker, but this time I wanted new plates too because on one of my old plates there was rust around the first three letters. Except I thought I had checked the box "keep old license plate number", but apparently I didn't and now have a brand new lic.plate number to memorize.

“and now have a brand new lic.plate number to memorize.”

Why? Why do you have to memorize your tag number?

I live in a two plate state (CA) but never put the front plate on my car, I've had it for 3 1/2 years with no problem. My DH and son also have no front plate with no problem.

Now that I have a phone with a camera I have just taken a picture of my license plate. Has come in handy when a hotel wants to know the number. In some areas it the desk does not have it when they check for people who use the parking lot without notifying and/or paying the fee for Park and Fly your car will be towed.

Maybe schoolhouse has a common car and color knowing the plate is easier to spot.

My car, a white Audi Q7 is very common, it helps me to know my plate.

Wow, we do a lot of traveling have never been asked for our plate numbers. maybe we are lucky.

Many (40?) years ago a number was asked for when charging gas.

maddielee ^^^ really?

I never heard of the incident.

Michigan requires that you replace your plate every 10 years. No option to keep your old plate numbers or letters. My husband's plate was very beat up in 10 years. Mine still looked new. There is a new sticker every year.

When a hotel asks for my plate number I give them the letters from my front vanity plate.

There is a way to defeat the camera's but I'll just keep it to myself.

We were taught in traffic school that if you put reflective tape on your license plate around the numbers (which is not illegal), it will prevent the automatic readers from reading your license plate numbers.

It's no secret.

IIRC the change to one plate is supposed to save the state money. I don't think that they reduced the fee for plates, did they?

Grew up in NV and had to have both. Not here in KY.

Alberta hasn't had a front page in something like 20 years, maybe longer. I get funny looks from police when they see I do have one: it's "fake" plate that says, #1 OMA". :)

I saw one in plain black block letters on a white background " MOTHER SUPERIOR"

( She was not a nun )

Years ago we had two. I can’t recall when Alabama switched to one but it has been quite a while.

"Why do you have to memorize your tag number?"

Several years ago I got one of my license plates stolen. I didn't realize it. I got a ticket in the mail that "my" car was parked in a handicapped parking spot. It listed the location, date, and time of the infraction. I was at work 45 miles away on that day. I contested it and had to prove where I was on that day and time. I was able to. By now I know my license plates because I had to write them down in the letter I wrote, and a couple of other documents I had to submit.

I'm now waiting to hear back from the court, and a month has gone by. I come home from work one day, park my car, and then open the trunk to get something out. I glanced down and noticed the license plate and realized it wasn't my plate. Walked to the front of my car and my plate was still attached. I called 911 and an officer came to my home to retrieve the plate that wasn't mine and also took my plate.

The plate that wasn't mine belonged to a car that had been stolen. My plate was put on the stolen car. So I'd been driving around for who knows how long with two different plates. The officer took both plates and I had to get new ones. And told me I was very lucky that no officer did a random plate check on the plate that was stolen. The officer said they call for back up when they spot a stolen car. They would have thought I was driving a stolen car if they ran that plate.

That's why it's important to know your license plates. I check my front and back each time I get in my car and go someplace now.

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There's no need memorize a license plate sequence. Spend a few minutes and take a photo of the back (or front) of your car or of each car (if more than one) you own and drive. Then they'll be together in the photo gallery on your phone, easy to find and ready for instant reference.

Our state went to one plate to save money and then went back to two. Having only one made it too hard for witnesses and police to ID cars that were engaged in bad things.

I've had the same license plates for years and years and have it memorized...helpful when I traveled as many hotels would want the plate number of your car while it was parked there.

I don't know about that reflective tape...in our state it is illegal, though largely unenforced, to even have a frame around your license plate...y'know like the ones the dealers always have on there with their name.

Also our state has stopped issuing stickers to update the plates as they were getting stolen. Now the registration expiry is checked when/if the cop calls the plate in.

It appears he was pepper sprayed for resisting the police, not because he had a temp tag. I wish we could have seen the whole video. I'm sure they left out the first part to prove the point they wanted to make. It's what these "news" organizations usually do. Police officers have to be extra careful now due to the hateful rhetoric being spread about them. If the police officers were acting in an unprofessional way, I certainly hope it will be proven in court and they receive the punishment they deserve.

Have you heard about the 73-year-old, 80 pound, woman with dementia who was thrown to the ground and her arm broken by a cop. Later, he told two other cops about it and said he heard her arm pop. They all laughed about it and fist bumped. Now that is a bad cop, and he needs to have criminal charges against him.

As I understand it, he was pepper sprayed because the cop kept escalating things when the driver refused to get out of the car without being told why they needed him out, even though both hands were out the window. He said he was afraid to get out, and I guess his fear was correct.

The pepper sprayer cop was fired. He was pissed off because the driver did not pull over immediately but drove another mile up the road to pull into a well lighted gas station. Sure cops need to be careful but they don't have to act belligerent and escalate the situation. Too many Barneys and not enough Andys.