{"id":8747,"date":"2017-06-08T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2022-09-15T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T03:03:15","slug":"wisconsin-expanding-license-plates-to-seven-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/wisconsin-expanding-license-plates-to-seven-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin expanding license plates to seven characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of phasing out license plates from the same system and same design that has been around since 1986, Wisconsin is adding a seventh character<\/a>\u00a0to its license plates as of a few weeks ago. The combination will be three letters followed by four numbers.<\/p>\n

When Iowa reset in 1997, all license plates got replaced with a new design and 000AAA character set. Then in 2012, we hit the limit<\/a> and swapped the letter-number positions. Shortly thereafter, the DOT announced that all the 1997 issues, and then subsequent ones, would be replaced after a decade. (Right now, I think the replacements are somewhere in the N’s or maybe P’s.)<\/p>\n

Wisconsin, however, hasn’t replaced anyone’s. It reversed letters to numbers in 2000 (meaning the first run-through lasted 14 years, a hair shorter than Iowa’s), and after another 16\u00bd years hit the limit again. But since a plate issued in, say, 1988 as EKU279 could theoretically be in use today<\/del>, there wasn’t anywhere to go but wedging in another digit. A little thinking ahead and database checking could have pre-emptively solved this issue, but, oops. Now America’s Dairyland will have the same design for the rest of the century or until the FIBs take over, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n

CORRECTION 9\/15\/22: All pre-2000 plates were replaced starting in 2000, so the six-character series on the road today are from this century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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