Veterans’ plates now available to all military

Alberta’s veterans’ licence plates don’t come with special privileges, but that doesn’t mean they go unnoticed.
Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell, a veteran of 14 international peacekeeping missions, has had his poppy plate since they were first introduced in 2005.
“Believe it or not, some of the people who are driving — who are maybe conscious of somebody a [...]

Licensing Agency to offer new set of distinguished number plates next month

The Licensing Agency, Roads & Transport Authority (RTA), intends to offer new categories of distinguished number plates topped by the 2-digit plates (G 98, H 91) and the 3-digit plates (I 786, J 333) in the 68th Distinguished Number Plates Auction to be held on Saturday 7th August 2010.
According to Mohammed Abdul Kareem Nimaat, Director [...]

EyeNet Announces International Automated Number Plate Recognition Standard

NEW LENOX, IL, Jul 20, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — EyeNet Enforcement Systems today announced the issuance of the EyeNet International Automated License (ALPR) and Number Plate Recognition StandardCopyright 2010 to aid in the decision making process for acquiring the appropriate technology for uses of Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) around the world.
The standard provides [...]

No number plates? Beware!

THE days are numbered for Port Elizabeth motorists who drive their vehicles without number plates, as traffic officials are cracking down on offenders.
Reacting to claims that there appears to be an increase in the number of vehicles driven without registration plates and particularly in the wake of the Fifa World Cup, when the city was [...]

License plates have funky offerings

How popular is NASCAR? Popular enough that at least four states — Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina — offer a series of commemorative NASCAR-themed license plates, so you can bring your favorite driver along for the ride.
Earlier this summer, North Carolina upped its inventory of NASCAR plates to 26 with the introduction of [...]

License plate collection more history than vanity

MILFORD — For Dave Kuehn, vehicle license plates are a snapshot of history, and collections like his are a timeline tracing the rise of the automobile and the arc of war.
When Connecticut began registering automobiles in 1903, owners were simply assigned a number and they had to make their own “plates,” he said Tuesday. “A [...]

Number plates of Raj Thackeray’s vehicles stolen

Number plates of two vehicles belonging to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray were stolen from outside his residence here, police said today. 
A theft case was registered at Shivaji Park police station on a complaint by Thackeray’s driver Ashok Tandal on Tuesday. According to police, the number plates were of a Qualis and a [...]

E&T dept bans personalized-vanity number plates

PESHAWAR: The Excise & Taxation (E&T) Department on Monday said that the display of personalized-vanity number plates has been banned through amendment in Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1965.
Therefore, all the legitimate subscribers of personalized-vanity numbers have been advised in their best interest to stop displaying personalized-vanity number plates and to start displaying their regular number plate [...]

Not Everyone Happy With New NYS License Plates

When you buy your next new car you are in for a not so pleasant surprise.
Your New York license plate will be a glaring yellow-gold and blue instead of the existing white and blue colored plate.
It is true that gold and blue are our State’s official colors. But the change to a bright gold background [...]

New high-tech number plates coming

By year’s end every vehicle on the nation’s roads will have to be equipped with a new high-tech number plate which will only be issued by the Motor Vehicle Authority, says Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner.
Warner said this new number plate will have a special micro chip which will help in the fight against [...]