The New Mystery

It's official, the DA's are out and they're on trucks.

The real mystery is, why are there no CA's or CE's? Will there be a CU? I was guessing they were saving the C-vowels for truck plates, but my guesses have been wrong in the past. Actually, I've been wrong on every guess so far with this plate business.

Greatest Thing

The greatest thing about this blog; I automatically win any "who's a bigger nerd" contest.

The CJ Dilemma

I recently wrote about the new lighter plates and how they started with CK. It was an incorrect assumption because now I've seen light colored CJ's and dark colored CJ's. Naturally, I have a desire to pin point what number of CJ this started. Here is what I've got so far.

CJ1 - dark
CJ2 - dark
CJ8 - light
CJ9 - light

So I'm guessing somewhere between 2 and 8 they started issuing lighter colored plates. I've never payed attention to the third character, I just always assumed they came out in order from 0 to 9. I hope paying special attention to CJ will give me some insight.

It's been a year?

It's is clear I am not good at updating my license plate blog, but who cares? No one is reading this anyway.

I have noticed the newer plates, starting with CK for cars and AY for trucks, look washed out. The backgrounds are significantly lighter then their predecessors. I can only assume this was done because the new plates are hard to read from a distance.

I actually noticed the lighter pictures on CL's first. There are a lot of CL's around school. CK's I saw for the first time today. Funny how that works. I surmise that different distribution points get different numbers and that's why sometimes we see an abundance of some letters over others. Occasionally this leads to observing plates out of order.

Also, today marks the first time I've ever seen a plate that starts with a B on a truck. The plate itself did not say truck, but it was one of the Home Depot rent me trucks. It was definitely a truck; 3/4 ton truck at that. Many SUV's and light trucks are questionable. I've seen both car and truck plates on just about everything that could remotely be classified as a truck. This marks the first time I've seen a car plate on something unquestionably a truck.

I look forward to finding a truck plate on a sedan.

This post also marks that it has been a year since I started observing Texas license plates. At first it was stupid and I kept it to myself. Then one day I got brave and told my girlfriend about it. She thought it was fun. Since then I've told a few more people and they all tell me what plates they've seen lately. I can only guess this nerdy past time is not as dull as I thought it would be.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me spot license plates!