License plates

MYOB, Karen

It’s not legal to drive without a plate. You get pulled over and ticketed.

r2, I'm talking about vehicles with EITHER no front plate OR no rear plate.

Some states do not require a front plate, FYI. Learned this when I moved to Florida.

what's the rationale, r4?

PA doesn't require a front plate either.

OP? You need to get out more.

It's annoying but as someone said, it's up to the states. I was just in Florida and locating my uber meant i had to constantly move around so i could see the plate (only on the rear). My home state requires front license plates.

Just found this:

I agree with OP that it is only logical that a vehicle should display a plate in the front and rear. People shouldn’t be cunts about this issue.

I’m in Wisconsin, and the recklessness and lawlessness on the roads around here must be seen to be believed. These cretins need to be easily identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent. My grandma was killed by a reckless, drunk-driving bastard, but even if she hadn’t been, smoke would be coming out of my ears about this issue because people in my state drive like absolute lawless cunts and endanger innocents daily.

I don’t care if some states don’t require it; it’s stupid not to require it.

And by the way, anyone here who lives in Florida and other backward states who do such stupid fucking things has my sympathy. Especially if you cannot leave.

Ohio only requires a rear license plate.

I live in New Mexico and tourists from Colorado and Texas frequently ask "how come there's no front plates here?"

New Mexico has some beautiful license plates. Land of Enchantment indeed!

Not legal in my state. That said, I've never had a front plate (looks better without) and I've never been ticketed or pulled over that reason. I've been driving 18 years.

I just asked Chat GPT this question and got a very detailed and succinent answer.

Besides OP not being able to do this, and his obvious idiot question, he is old. And should probably not be driving.

r9 No one is being a cunt about it, dumbass. My mother is in NM and there is not a license plate on the front. You don't get 2 plates there - only one.

"I don’t care if some states don’t require it; it’s stupid not to require it."

You sound about as sharp as a marble.

I drove from 2018 - 2023 with only a rear plate and never got stopped. That's the way the car came.

I'm in CA.

Ohio changed its law after the killing of Samuel Dubose, who was shot and killed for not having a front license plate.

r17 And the psycho who shot him is still a police officer.

Also "On March 23, 2018, the University of Cincinnati settled a grievance that the Ohio police union filed on behalf of Ray Tensing (the murderer). The settlement provided Tensing with $250,000 plus costs/fees. This caused further outrage in the community."

R18, I know. That's a good example of why the law was changed.

A lot of modern cars don't have a place for front plates. My sister bought an Audi Q4 e-tron several months back and when she got her plates, she realized there was nowhere to mount the front plates. When she called the dealer, they told her the car wasn't designed for front plates, and that if she was concerned about getting ticketed to just place the plate on the dashboard! Sis couldn't believe her ears.

BIL asked around and surfed the net for solutions. Ended up finding some after-market contraption to mount the plate without having to drill through the flimsy grille.

It's not. During COVID and in the early years post COVID, Portland decided laws didn't matter and you saw this all the time.

R20 Trust me, there is space. (If it isn't an Audi especially for the US market, that is.) Front and rear licence plates are compulsory in the EU.

It's largely poor states in the south and the midwest that only require a rear plate and I think it's because they're too poor to be manufacturing two of them.

No front plate has become an epidemic in CA. It seems 15-20% of the cars on the road are flouting the law. It's especially common with Teslas.

Frankly, I think they either need to repeal the law or enforce it. I read somewhere that they can't cite people unless the car is in operation. It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to change that rule and hire a bunch of lower-paid people to issue citations to parked cars that are missing the front plate.