It's a nice spot for the state patrol to tag you with their laser radar.
New Iowa License Plates
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It's a nice spot for the state patrol to tag you with their laser radar.
I'd say get rid of the county name on the plate. I've never seen this done anywhere else and I'm not sure the point.
Why? Lots of states have that, and for my own sake I like quickly knowing if I'm behind a newb in downtown DSM.
I really like that part of our plate. I think it's interesting to see where people are from
I just looked it up 6/50 have county name and in FL it's an option. I'm sure it doesn't happen a lot but I feel like you can potentially be targeted with county names. Like a polk plate in a really rural county or vice versa. Or story county in IC.
Iowa has a ridiculous amount of specialty plates available. There are two dozen different college/university plates, about 20 plates for certain causes (DNR, etc.), and another two dozen or so for service personnel.
The green 1970s plates and blue 1980s plates had county coding built in, in addition to the specific county name being shown. Each county was designated a certain segment of letters [bottom of linked page]; so if you lived in Story County in the 80s, your plate was somewhere between SAA 000 and SDZ 999. Tama County (next alphabetically) was SEA 000 to SEZ 999.
Before that, the county number (Story = 85) was stamped on the plate with no separate county name listed.
The green 1970s plates and blue 1980s plates had county coding built in, in addition to the specific county name being shown. Each county was designated a certain segment of letters [bottom of linked page]; so if you lived in Story County in the 80s, your plate was somewhere between SAA 000 and SDZ 999. Tama County (next alphabetically) was SEA 000 to SEZ 999.
Before that, the county number (Story = 85) was stamped on the plate with no separate county name listed.
Agreed. That's also the reason we technically can't have license plate frames, which is a ridiculous bit in our law given how many have them and how plates can be looked up without the county.
Personally I don't care about the re-design, as long as I can keep getting my ISU plates I don't care what the other plates look like.
I thought of that, but If there is any sort of county identifier on the plate that's still an issue. If they were numbers in the corner, common numbers are easy to identify too.
A license plate that just reads "72GR391" (for example) with no county name means nothing unless someone knows all 99 Iowa counties in alphabetical order. If they do, then I'll just tip my cap and go about my business.
The green and blue plates are among my favorite Iowa versions. And I like the old-school county-number, too, probably more for nostalgia reasons.
I was thinking more about the individual county numbers (1-99) stamped in the corner.
I love the county name being on the plate. When you see an Iowa plate halfway across the country, you know where they're from.
Related: Hadn't encountered this previously, about 3 years ago designers from each state collaborated on State Plates Project, re-imagining each U.S. license plate. Some look sharp, some are overdone or too busy. Maryland's is the dumbest idea I've ever seen.
Warning: Concept for Iowa plate has a slogan and color scheme that most of us here will find unacceptable (simplicity of the design itself isn't too bad, though).
Warning: Concept for Iowa plate has a slogan and color scheme that most of us here will find unacceptable (simplicity of the design itself isn't too bad, though).
The no license plate frames law is so stupid...laughable. You can't have the same license plate number in the state. The county doesn't matter. all my vehicles have ISU Plates. Nobody knows what county in Iowa I am from.
Iowa has front plates also. A lot of states don't require them. I actually think it makes sense to have them in front for law enforcement and for witnesses. there are many examples where you can only see the front of a car.
Iowa has front plates also. A lot of states don't require them. I actually think it makes sense to have them in front for law enforcement and for witnesses. there are many examples where you can only see the front of a car.
Pray they don't change the ISU plates. They changed the university plates in Nebraska as well as the normal plates. The UNL plates are terrible. This image doesn't show how bad they really are. The "Huskers" is actually much darker and makes it that you can't read "Huskers" or the plate number. It just looks like a scribbled mess.
