Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Alaska

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Plate numbers[edit]

The format from Jan 1 2010 is incorrect. Plates in Anchorage are currently following the ABC-123 format (GAA-100 through GZZ-999 currently, although the GZZ-999 plate may have been issued and therefore moved on to another letter). I have not seen a single plate with a number in the first half, nor a letter in the second half. I suspect the next set will be IAA-100 - IZZ-999, as the letter H (HAA-100 - HZZ-999) is reserved for handicapped individuals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koolman2 (talk • contribs) 05:09, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It was GruberBomgardner who suggested that a new passenger base was introduced on January 1, 2010 with "lots of white mountains in the center" and flat (i.e. screened) serials in an A12B34 format (see this edit and this edit).

With the very greatest of respect, it seems that this base is merely a product of his/her imagination. So I have deleted it, and replaced it with the resumption of the "Last Frontier" base on the date in question.

As regards the current serials, if the 'G' series haven't ended yet, then they will surely do so very soon - as of the time of this comment, the highest sighting according to LicensePlates.cc is in the GZT series. And when they do end, it's possible that the first letter will then jump to 'K', i.e KAA 100 onwards - in addition to 'H' being reserved for Handicapped plates, 'J' is being used on the optional bear plates introduced in May this year, while 'I' is normally only used on vanity plates. Bluebird207 (talk) 18:32, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Concur with Bluebird207. If plates in A12B34 format exist, they are one-off vanities and not part of the normal serial sequence. I am an ALPCA member and avid plate watcher in Alaska, and also confer with Alaska DMV on occasion. I would have heard of and noticed any such plates. Also note that the optional Bear plates are quite popular. Concur also that H and I are very likely to be skipped. When I asked DMV about whether the normal plates would restart at K after reaching the end of G, they were noncommittal, and said that it would be based on requirements at the time. Royce (talk) 23:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To answer the original comment, plates in the form of 1234AB were used for trucks for many years. Deprecating those plates may have been one of the changes implemented when DMV was transferred from Public Safety to Administration (itself a change resulting from a much-hushed-up political scandal, when people with ties to the governor's office under the then-Democratic governor used the Alaska Public Safety Information Network to conduct opposition research on Republican state legislative candidates in the 1996 election), but I don't exactly recall. Once quite common, it's still possible to occasionally see these plates out on the road. I too noticed that the plate numbers jumped from G to J with the bear plates. If they skipped I, it's possibly for the same reason as skipping H, in this case its use on Iditarod finisher plates. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 10:38, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not only is the aforementioned format for trucks missing from the list (and possibly other historical formats as well?), but X and Y plates are combined under the field listed for charitable plates. X plates are actually used for vehicles owned by borough and city governments, while state vehicles (including Alaska Railroad and University of Alaska vehicles, but not AST vehicles, for whatever reason) use a five-digit number. That number may correspond to a numbering system used by DOTPF to manage the state fleet, but I can't claim any certainty about that. Lastly, I possess an Alaska Transportation Commission license plate. I'll try to remember to upload an image, though that would entail first finding it and snapping a photo. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 11:02, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Debacle"[edit]

I see a section about a "1973 plate debacle". Wouldn't a more generalized "controversy" section work better? I read something earlier this year about how the bear in the 1975 plates was originally a derivative work of a copyrighted artwork, and that this was only brought to the attention of the state government within the past year or so (or in other words, 40 or so years later). That sounds like something which may possibly be an item of interest to this topic. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 23:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't this Alaska Dispatch News article from June that you read, was it?

http://www.adn.com/article/20150618/license-plate-rip-alaska-must-right-old-wrong-honor-grizzlys-artist

A generalized "Controversies" section probably would work better than the current section on the 1973 plates. In the meantime, I shall rename this section - substituting "controversy" for "debacle", which is probably a bit too dramatic a word for this WP article in any case. Bluebird207 (talk) 00:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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