For example, truck plates are all an AB1-2345 pattern. Two letters and a number in the first part, then four numbers in the second part. They increase incrementally. The first plates were AA, then AB. Currently the highest I've seen is AV.
Car plates are very similar except they started with B. An example would be BA1-A234. Notice the letter in the second part of the plate number. Assuming 10 different numbers can be used (0-9) and 23 letters used from the alphabet, this gives cars significantly more plates.
For every BAx-xxxx there would be a total of 230,000 plates (10x23x10x10x10). On the truck plate side, for every AAx-xxxx it would be merely 100,000 plates (10x10x10x10x10). From my observations there are a lot more car plates than truck plates in Texas (amazing I know-but I'll get back to this in a later post).
It is the second letter of either plate that is most significant (to me anyway). So if the last truck plate I saw was AS, that means now I keep an eye out for anything higher. Presumably AT would come next, but this is not always true. Some letters are not used (another post topic). Sometimes you just see them out of order (yet another future post topic).
Now that all those details are out of the way, what counts? Like I said in the first post, I only count plates I've personally seen. This does not mean I discount when other people tell me about anything new. My girlfriend told me she saw an AS; even sent me a photo of it from her cell phone. Even though I had not seen it yet myself (don't count photo's either), her sighting confirmed the existence of AS.
Finally, we've established the particulars to how this plate hunting works. So where are we today? I plan to post a column on the side that shows the current plates spotted and the dates they were seen. But for now I'll update within this post.
Highest Car Plate
CF - October 3
Highest Truck Plate
AV - September 25
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