I can’t think of a reason for the extra hassle and expense.

  • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    22 days ago

    If they didn’t spend all that money on different license plates for each county, they have to spend it on education and we all know that sure shit don’t want to do that.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    171·
    22 days ago

    Wait, other states don’t? I dunno, I live in Mississippi, I always thought the other states did the same. Guess I never really paid that much attention.

    If it counts for anything, at least Mississippi doesn’t require two tags, one for the back and one for the front, they only require the rear tag.

    Also, our vehicles don’t require inspections anymore, which is both a bonus for your wallet, and also very frightening when you realize how many vehicles out there are on the verge of brake failure or something equally dangerous.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 days ago

      Oklahoma only has back plates but not for each county and no inspections but that is a bad thing not good. Allows shitty cars to remain on the road.

      • Burninator05@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        I’m in Louisiana. We have inspections but I don’t believe the actually matter. Take a quick walk through any parking lot and you’ll find tons of cars that have both valid stickers and glaringly obvious problems that should keep them off the road.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      Also, our vehicles don’t require inspections anymore, which is both a bonus for your wallet, and also very frightening when you realize how many vehicles out there are on the verge of brake failure or something equally dangerous.

      I like how you supported small government a d then realized why it was small and what’s at stake, in the same sentence.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        LOL, I don’t think Mississippi ever cared much in the first place. Back in the day, Mississippi actually did require inspections, for all of $5.

        They didn’t bother checking the brakes or much of anything really, except make sure all the lights and the horn work. Sometimes they might even make sure your seatbelts are intact and latch correctly.

        I remember sometime in the late 90s helping my dad push his Buick into the inspection bay. They didn’t even care that the car literally didn’t run, he still passed inspection, because all his lights and horn worked! 😂🤣

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 days ago

        My Florida tags didn’t have a county listed, but my Tennessee ones do. Looking more into it, it appears Florida allows you to have it say your county, Sunshine State, or In God We Trust.

        Everyone I knew just had sunshine state, figured they were all like that unless you got a custom tag

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      44·
      22 days ago

      What state requires a front and rear tag? Seems excessive?

      Edit: People in here not understanding the difference between a tag and a license plate

      Edit apparently it’s common for both to be called tags… Depending where your from… To make this whole thing confusing…

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        10·
        22 days ago

        Cars should have both, so they can be uniquely identified both coming and going.

        For example when you run over a road pedestrian by not stopping for a red light, as he sees you coming and jumps out of the way he might see your plate, whereas once you’ve run over him, cracked his hips and given him a concussion he may not be able to read your rear plate

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            2·
            22 days ago

            I see that was added to the conversation: so weird to have opposite terminology. I’ve always heard “tags” refer to the plates, never the registration sticker

      • Sandbag@lemm.ee
        8·
        22 days ago

        I think most states, I can at least speak for New England and most of the East coast.

      • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        MN requires plates on both sides and when you renew your registration they give you tabs for both sides too. It doesn’t make much sense to me to require plates on both sides if you are only going to put the tabs on one side.

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 days ago

        It sounds like maybe you’re talking about the registration decal when you say “tag”.

        Virginia requires them on both front and rear plates.

        • Joeffect@lemmy.world
          31·
          22 days ago

          Yeah maybe it’s me but I’ve never heard someone call a licence plate a tag before…

          • ccunning@lemmy.world
            3·
            22 days ago

            I don’t think it’s just you, but I’d never heard someone refer to the registration decal as a tag before you.

            I asked ChatGPT in the most neutral way I could think what “tag” meant in relation to motor vehicles just to get an aggregate perspective on what the internet at large says and it turns out both are definitely common:

            I wonder if it’s geographic or what. Its odd to me that we both had only encountered one usage and it was the opposite

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        1·
        22 days ago

        In response to your other comments, yes I should have said plates instead of tags. Here in MS, they’re basically one and the same, every year you stick a new tag sticker on your plate.

        Oh, by the way, here in Mississippi, when you go to get a license plate, the office you go to is the tag office.

        Same thing, at least here anyways.

        • Joeffect@lemmy.world
          2·
          22 days ago

          Every place I’ve been it’s either the DMV or RMV which isn’t a lot of places but still… Some places the tag goes on your car window not your license plate like NJ

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        1·
        20 days ago

        Ohio used to, but now we have county tags instead.

        The reasoning had been in case you only saw the front of a reckless driver

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    5·
    22 days ago

    My guess is plate assignment/registration was delegated to county offices from the start.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I don’t understand what OP is asking either, even with the upvoted response to your comment. What do Mississippi license plates look like?

      I live in a different state, and we have the option to have either our state’s motto on our plate, or the county that we live in. I chose the county that I live in. When I drive around, I see many others displaying the county that they live in as well. Is Mississippi’s system similar to this? I don’t understand why it would be a hassle on the part of the state to print different license plates for different people. They already do that anyway… I don’t get how that would be using excessive resources.

      When I have to renew my vehicle registration, it is either done online, within kiosks at certain grocery stores, or at a government building within the county I live. It doesn’t seem like a confusing or weird system at all to me. But again, I don’t know how it works in Mississippi.

      • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
        1·
        22 days ago

        I’m British, but I’m genuinely interested in how “number plates” as we call them, work in different countries.

        What’s a tag then? Cause I thought that was a license plate…

        This is a number plate, just in case you’re interested.

        Edit, just wanted to add….its yellow for the back, white for front, and you have to have both.

        • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          21 days ago

          Instead of “number plate”, we call it either a “license plate” or just a “plate”. Some states require both front and rear plates, while others only require a single rear plate.

          A “tag” is a small registration sticker that is updated/changed every so many years for proof that your vehicle registration is current. The “tag” is often placed on your license plate itself, but some states put the tag on the windshield instead. Some other states don’t actually have any tag stickers that need to be placed anywhere on your vehicle even though your vehicle still needs to be registered.

          I think the confusion is arising because a user here is referring to their license plate as a “tag”. In my experience, this is not common word usage. I’ve never heard of anyone refer to a vehicle tag as anything other than the registration sticker. But just because it’s not common in the places I’ve been doesn’t mean that people don’t use the word that way.

        • Stamau123@lemmy.world
          2·
          21 days ago

          The tag is the registration tag, it’s visible proof that the car is on register with the state(s) and is legal to be on the road

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    4·
    22 days ago

    My speculation is based on who hands them out.

    • states I’m familiar with do not show county. Plates are handed out by a DMV/RMV, which is a state agency
    • for those states that show county, are the plates handed out by a county level agency?
  • Opisek@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 days ago

    Meanwhile European license plates being standardized across the whole Union.

    Your guys’ are prettier to look at, whilst ours are all about the intended function. Not sure which approach I like more.