{"id":14338,"date":"2022-09-23T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14338"},"modified":"2022-09-22T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T05:46:57","slug":"wisconsin-sets-expiration-dates-on-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/wisconsin-sets-expiration-dates-on-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin sets expiration dates on license plates"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2017, Wisconsin ran out of license plates. But instead of re-resetting its alphanumeric cycle, it moved to a seven-character AAA0000 style<\/a>, and let the old plates stick around. (See this Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/em> story<\/a>.) Although the base design goes back to 1986, some minor tweaks and color scheme changes mean that the plates on the road today are mid-2000 and later. (I was wrong in a statement I made in the 2017 blog post, since the 1986-2000 plates have been replaced at least once<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The older plates, depending on their exposure to the elements, are peeling apart, and some of them look really<\/em> bad<\/a>. (I’ve never seen a 1997-2002 Iowa plate peeled like that.)\u00a0Something had to be done, and the Wisconsin Legislature reimposed a 10-year rolling deadline. The administrator of the Wisconsin DMV said the state has 3 million active plates more than a decade old, so those will be in line for replacement over the next year or so. By the end of 2027 six-character plates will be history in the Badger State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2017, Wisconsin ran out of license plates. But instead of re-resetting its alphanumeric cycle, it moved to a seven-character AAA0000 style, and let the old plates stick around. (See this Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story.) Although the base design goes back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-license-plates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14354,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14338\/revisions\/14354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}