License plates in wisconsin

If you need ONLY the decal , you can request a replacement:. When you sell or trade in your vehicle, or when you move outside of Wisconsin, you can transfer, surrender, or keep your license plates. You may wish to destroy unused license plates so no one else can use them. If you buy a car in a private sale , you can request the transfer when you register the car.

If you sell your vehicle or move to another state, you may wish to destroy your Wisconsin license plates so that no one else can use them. NOTE : License plate agencies may charge additional service fees for transactions. You may have several reasons to look up a license plate number. Various tools are available depending on the reason for your search:. License Plate Replacements To request replacement license plates , you will need to: Report the loss or theft to the police.

Fees for other plate types vary and are listed on the application. Submit your application and fees: In person at your local WI tag agent. OR By mail to the address on the form. Be sure to have the following information available when calling or emailing: Your vehicle identification number VIN and license plate number. Your contact information. If you later decide to re-register with standard license plates, send a copy of your Certificate of Registration or renewal notice with a request for standard plates.

Include the regular registration fee if your plates will expire within the next three months. For more information, visit personalized and special plates FAQs. How to apply: Print clearly and sign the Personalized License Plate Information Application MV Choose characters except for a motorcycle plate choose characters. Decals are available for: Veterans, retirees, and current service members.

Military academy students and alumni. Combat recognition , for example: Afghanistan War Veteran. Somalia War Veteran. Military honors , including: Army Distinguished Service Medal. Soldier's Medal. Other military license plates are available for: Ex-Prisoners of War.

Lao Veterans. Medal of Honor recipients. National Guard members and retirees. Typical proof of eligibility includes: Discharge papers. Military ID. Certification from the U. I've finally done it. I've finally taken pictures of almost all of my Heavy Truck plates. I've finally got all the plate images edited, I've finally gotten caught up with my ever-fast growing license plate collection. I hate taking license plate images. Point blank. I live with OCD, so it's a chore taking a single image and cropping it.

Every single simple action turns into an ordeal. As such I've neglected adding images of license plates from my collection for about a year now. The last wave of Heavy Truck plate photos from my collection was in early September , and I missed a few plates I think.

I've also forgotten a few plates, which I need to take pictures of soon and upload images of them too. I also have lots of Heavy Truck plate photos, either from plate meets, antique shops, or on-the-road shots that I have had for a while and haven't bothered editing or uploading them yet.

I've also added lots of serial ranges for Heavy Truck plates. I'm tired. I'm probably gonna take a break to focus on college like a responsible person, because I'm an idiot and I've procrasinated on assignments to deliver these updates.

Here's hoping at least one person cares about my website for all the work I put into it. Unbelievably, I've added a huge wave of new images. After 7 months of procrastinating, I've finally gotten around to adding some images. I've added lots of photos to the bus page and special plates page, and I still have lots more images to add.

For example, I have a lot of early school bus photos that I don't have edited yet and I have to go and edit them. I probably have another few hundred images I haven't found yet that I have access to that I could add to these pages alone, but at the moment I'm focusing on adding the images I have on hand right now.

Why did it take me so long to add my images, you may ask? Well, let me explain. I hate adding images. And while I'm not going to detail every reason why I hate adding images, I'm going to say that it's very tedious.

There's a post below this detailing why I hate adding images, so go read that if you care to know why I hate adding images. Unfortunately, this also means that I have to slack somewhere. Which means that I haven't added any new serial ranges for a little while, except for the serial ranges I found on the road the other day that I had to write down quickly.

I actually have some serial ranges written down in comments on my HTML documents, and I have to find the serial ranges and add them to their respective pages, because there was an XE Heavy Truck plate somewhere around XE and a bunch of other serial ranges. I brought my camera so I could snap pictures of license plates I saw on the road.

Also, the last time I went junkyarding on May 7, I snapped a picture of the MC plate I saw that one day, and it's a confirmed number and it expired in March , so I'll have to add that image sometime.

May 7th will be where I start my license plate finds list, because my hiatus from making these articles started after May 21, , though my only mentioned the junkyarding trip when it came to the single Heavy Truck plate that I couldn't bring home figures. I probably picked up more plates but forgot about them. This plate was seen on a bumper in a pile of scrap parts on the way out, so I know I had to get it.

Truck temporary. July 17th was a great day. I ended up paring lots of stickers off the Heavy Truck plates to bridge years for my insert sticker run, and I went a little crazy with the sticker paring. The rest of the plates I don't know what they were, so I really won't go into detail because I just don't remember most of the plates I bought there.

Nobody knows what it is? If anyone cares they only care to bully me about it, because people on the internet have nothing better to do than bully people for hobbies. I downloaded images from just the people who have granted me permission to use their photos from just the Wisconsin license plate group for just one month. Sounds pretty restrictive and simple, right?

Well, a manageable or so images quickly turned into almost images from one person alone. And you want to guess what is taking up most of those images? You guessed it: Bicycle plates! I've been hard at work on this website lately. I finally got a laptop so I can actually work on this site, so naturally I'm gonna go overboard and spend way too much time on my site. Most of the work I've done has been finishing the color cycle tables to , and adding the bridges and text on multiyear bases, while also adding pages here and there, including the general stickers and color cycle pages, which currently sit as blank pages with placeholder content until I work on them more.

One thing I've been doing has been editing photos from my camera. If you don't know, I've had thousands of images that needed to be added to my website from my camera, which I didn't add because I didn't have a device that accepted full size SD cards Chromebooks are trash. If I wanted to add images, I had to ask my mom for her full size SD card to USB adapter, then ask her to use the computer to do photo work, which 2 hours doesn't go very far when you have thousands of images to edit.

Well, I've edited maybe photos, while I've combed through the images and removed duplicates and misshots with the exception of some shots that I missed miserably - I will be making memes out of those and posting them online.

At first there was over 1, images on my SD card that I copied to my computer, then I combed through all the images and removed images I knew for sure were useless for my website. At the moment there are around images that I need to go and edit yay.

I'm gonna have to break off the job into chunks and do some switching here and there to prevent myself from burning out. The last time I had thousands of images to edit, I got burnt out and neglected adding images for almost a year.

So far I'm editing images from the Grateful Shed back in , but with my new photo editor. In case you haven't noticed, the images I took there were slapped on a Google document, cropped and tilted, then screenshotted, and the images on their own were very crooked.

My new photo editor is capable of distorting the image in such a way that the plate appears for the most part straight. It takes some messing around to get the plate looking normal again, and while this distortion process does make the plate appear slightly unnatural if you are fully aware of the process, it's still better than having super crooked images that take up half the screen with their crookedness.

The last known update to this website was on June 25, which I added some Heavy Truck license plate ranges from my images I had been taking on my camera for the last month. I didn't even bother finishing adding the citations because I was working from my tablet I will call it a stone tablet powered by potatoes because trying to work on that thing was horrible. Since then, there have been a lot of license plate spottings and images I've taken that need to be added.

So, now I have up to thousands of images to add. I gotta find a place to host all the images because I am limited to how many images I can have. While the limit is 30, different "inodes" which is basically just different file paths, for example a folder and an image would be 2 inodes I believe , the daily hit limit is a measly 50, Either way I've got a lot of work to catch up on.

I'm running on little to no sleep at all at 9PM so don't expect major changes just yet. I just got my new laptop and I'm testing it out to see if it works for what I need coding, Microsoft Office, etc. The motiviation for out of state license plate research has resurged for completely unknown reasons.

Either way, I've been taking lots of images of various license plate stickers, and I'm not sure what the significance is of different sticker styles because I don't research current license plates of different states at the moment. This is a massive undertaking researching out of state plates. My expertise at the moment is mostly limited to Wisconsin license plates, as I've studied them in some way or another since My current level of research started in summer as I was riding my bicycle in town, memorizing plate numbers on construction vehicles in my town, while also memorizing and recording sticker colors.

Another major announcement, I now know all but two insert sticker colors! That's right, the only two unknown sticker colors are 1st quarter and , which the former of the bunch has the background color known. If you've been looking at my site, there are a lot of broken images. My images are broken for various reasons. Some images were hosted on my old coding platform and I just haven't gotten around to transferring the images from my old site to my new site.

Some images were hosted on a Google site that I made a while ago as a test, and for some reason on some devices the images don't load. Another wave of images were added to a separate site I made on the same coding platform that I coded my old site on, and I guess they block hotlinking because they don't want people like me using their platform for photo storage.

There's a reason why there's a lack of images on this site. It's not because I don't have access to many images. Even though I have access to thousands of images that I could potentially use on my website I only have a few hundred images on my site. The real reason why I don't add images is because adding images is tedious, irritating, and overall unenjoyable compared to coding my site and researching serial ranges. I have to first get the image, whether it be download it off of the Facebook group with permission of course , take the image at a license plate event, or download the image from other site with permission as usual.

I then have to transfer most images I have from my tablet to my Chromebook, which is a nightmare all on its own. I have to find the images then copy them to my SD card 20 times because my OCD makes me copy and uncopy images a million times, then I have to take my tablet out of its protective case, which involves taking off rubber and unclasping a plastic case, then I have to take the SD card out and hope the SD card don't yeet itself to the other corner of my room, then I have to get the image, and Facebook images I have to upload the image to this image editor I use, crop the image down to the single plate, then I have to save the image then I have to reopen the image and use free distort to straighten the image because every image I have access to is pretty much at an angle that's really awkward to display on my site.

I then have to download that image, then I have to upload that image to my website then finally link the image to the page and then hope that I'm not using all my inodes basically file paths, so an image would take up 1 inode each and hits which are file loads. Maybe that's why I haven't added a single image since September. Because it's such an annoyance to add images.

I'm planning on adding more images soon, but don't count on the images coming before I graduate from high school. For a while, I would just try to memorize the license plate numbers I saw on road trips and write them down on my website when I got on the internet. So, starting in early , I wrote down my license plate numbers I found on pretty much whatever I had laying around, be it a coloring book my sister brought in the car, signs I put down in Minecraft, or even wrappers from my sister's toys.

Needless to say, this was not a very practical or effective solution, as I frequently lost my notes, including a J weight class trailer plate that I was really excited to see. In June , I bought a miniature notebook to write down my license plate numbers I saw on road trips. It was a great solution for a little while I lost so many license plate notes, unfortunately. From December to about a couple weeks ago I did what I used to do, I just wrote the numbers down on whatever I had laying around, even using a napkin and a container for popcorn chicken to write down license plate numbers with a marker I found in the car.

I recently got a composition notebook for all my license plate numbers, so I'm hopeful that the notebook don't fall apart like the spiral notebook did. Though knowing how much the notebook goes through on a normal basis the notebook will probably fall apart too. I noticed the hologram changed in late I didn't know why the hologram changed, or if it meant anything, but I noticed the new hologram.

Fast forward to and I got a pair of seven digit passenger plates, AAE or something like that. I looked very closely, and I noticed that there was some rainbowing of the sheeting, which is what I'd expect with an Avery plate. You see, when Avery sheeting is bent, it creates a rainbowing effect.

And I knew that Avery sheeting had that effect and that the sheeting was usually shinier than 3M sheeting. So I found out that the sheeting changed to Avery sheeting without me noticing. Many other collectors immediately knew the sheeting change, and being the king of minor Wisconsin license plate variations, I feel like I kinda was a little late to notice the sheeting change.

That's one reason why it's hard to determine sheeting changes. I didn't know the sheeting changed, and as such I missed out on four years of research.

Another thing making it difficult to study the sheeting is that most of the sheeting breakoff points I know either by looking at a license plate from a foot away in a parking lot, from someone else's collection, or from numbers reported before That's because if you are driving by a license plate you aren't going to see the hologram unless you are at a certain angle, which is very rare in a driveby.

On March 13, which was this Saturday, I went to another license plate meet. The first time I went to the license plate meet we left at AM and people didn't stay much longer, and I woke up around AM and freaked out becuase I thought we were very late for the meet and that everyone would have left the meet by the time we would get there. We made it to the meet luckily. I went around and quickly looked at license plates, and then picked the plates up. I took some pictures of license plates, but not very many images were taken.

But it is very low on the search results. I had to go to the Google search console, download a verification file, upload the file to my website, then wait a day for Google to crawl my website and somehow crawl my old websites too. And now I have to go and add keywords to every page I hear that they aren't used anyway but it doesn't hurt to add a few keywords. At least my site is finally on Google. That way I don't have to keep promoting my website everywhere I go.

Click this link. Look at the address. What the..? So I noted to the license plate group that the Wisconsin page was nonfunctional for some reason. I thought maybe the code that my old coding platform used broke my site, but other pages that hadn't been converted worked fine. Then I thought maybe the files didn't upload right, so I reuploaded the files.

That didn't work either, so I started playing with the file paths to see if for some reason the file paths messed up. I am planning on moving my website very soon, within the next month. I can't stand my coding platform anymore. It's been a nightmare to manage pictures and I haven't added a single image since before I went to the license plate meet. And the entire redesign of the website was the final straw.

I hated the platform as it was, but after the redesign with the irritating automatic addition of closing paranthesis, quotation marks, and curly brackets for CSS, the platform became untolerable. For a long time I've used Code. I was fine with the platform for a little while, but as my website grew the load time became unbearable to the point that I would pin my website tab to make sure that the tab didn't close.

Every time my teachers would focus browse me which means that they close my tabs out because they don't trust me to work even though I am a high schooler I would freak out because it took so long to load my website. I started pruning images off my website recently which is why some images are broken and it still isn't enough.

And after the redesign I keep getting a notification that the maximum amount of files has been reached. I purged a bunch of images off my website and it still isn't enough. Another irritating thing is that the platform doesn't support folders, so I have to scroll through a huge list of images before I can edit a single webpage. Before the redesign of the coding platform I had to use the same platform to code in JavaScript. When I used that platform I was irritated at the constant automatic addition of closing parenthesis and quotation marks.

Why can't I say that I don't want to have automatic closing tags? Why can't I customize my experience with this platform? There is no customization whatsoever. I know this site is meant for schools. But with the option of making your own outside of class projects which is what I do with this current website , why would you force annoying settings upon me? One thing I hated with the automatic closing tags is that there would always be an extra tag because they decided to add the tag for me because I can't add a quotation mark for some reason.

My entire code goes pink if I miss a quotation mark, do you really think I would forget a quotation mark? I'm planning on moving my website to a new domain, which I will likely register my domain as wisconsinlicenseplates. If you are wondering why I chose. I will still update serial ranges, but I will stop updating the serial ranges soon as I move my website.

I bought another license plate from eBay a couple days ago. I also bought some license plate tabs from a license plate collector. I was looking up license plate numbers last year, and I wondered just how heavy trailer plates can be. I knew of an L weight class trailer plate I had found in June , but there was no evidence of trailer plates beyond the L weight class. While searching I went and searched plates all the way to the T weight class, and some plates had the same number used for different plate types.

Of the plate types listed trailer was one of the plates listed. Even though I had basically confirmed the existence of T weight class trailer plates, I never thought I would ever see a T weight class trailer plate, nor did I think I would ever hear about a single plate being found. Yesterday, the day I started writing this aricle, I found an image of a T weight class trailer plate posted on a license plate collector group for Wisconsin license plates.

It was numbered TR , and I was absolutely shocked at the find. First of all, I don't know how a person defines whether to register a trailer as a semi trailer or a trailer, so I already don't know what a trailer like that would look like.

Also, in other news, a sticker has been found in April, and it took me until now to find out that the sticker color has been known. And I was correct in the sense that stickers are black on white. I correctly guessed I guessed red on white , , kind of, I guessed yellow but the sticker was tan , and sticker colors.

I guessed stickers based on a 7 year cycle that I was seeing with sticker colors, I guessed stickers with a pattern of boat stickers being close to passenger stickers for , , and , I guessed stickers based on a wrong sticker color saying that stickers were black on white, and I saw a pattern in insert stickers with all stickers alternating between yellow and white a lot. I guessed stickers by process of elimination because white had not been used in such a long time.

However, that doesn't mean I'm good at guessing sticker colors. I guessed the and sticker color to be black on green, then pushed my black on green prediction to I guessed stickers to be black on red.

I have no clue what stickers beyond will be. I have to wait until to find any new sticker colors beyond insert stickers. I got a lot of license plates for Christmas. Some of the most notable plates include a March apportioned plate, heavy farm, ZA trailer, September Heavy Truck with a restricted use sticker, Heavy Truck in the PA series, and a lot of 4 Heavy Truck tabs, supposedly from My sister bought me a New Mexico chili pepper capital license plate, which is ironic because I ended up buying her the exact same license plate product on eBay a few days after she bought the plate for me.

I am so far behind on license plate stuff. I tried to crop over 1, images, and I realized I had to start over. Not fun. I also bought a bunch of license plates from a license plate collector that my dad happened to know. In the lot was a truck plate, special-Z plate, and some Heavy Truck plates from , , and , which are in my Heavy Truck section of the website, with the credit saying "Chris".

I'm also taking the time to archive links to old eBay images before they get deleted. Something I hate doing. I also archiving the pages of the search results in case the images are eventually deleted though the images have lasted at least a week longer than the pages themselves.

If you want to see some old license plates you might not have found on Worthpoint, then click on the Plate Links section of this website. A few years ago, I wanted to go to a junkyard. I thought I would be able to get some license plates, and unfortunately I found out I would have to be 18 to go to junkyards. I turned 18 3 weeks ago. And the weekend of my birthday, I went to the C.

Chase junkyard in Camp Douglas. When I went to the junkyard, we were lost. We didn't know where the junkyard was. So we had to call the place to come show us where to go. I sat. And sat. For half an hour, I did nothing while my sister and mom were at Walmart getting toys during black Friday month stupidest idea ever.

It's a stupid idea to have black Friday when people are trying to grocery shop. Once the owner of the junkyard finally came, they brought me to the beginning of the junkyard, which had some plates ranging from to I went looking for many license plates, and then was told to leave because the owner had business. You are going to waste a half hour of my time when we were in the dang town and then kick me out half an hour later before I even purchased a single license plate? There are a lot of license plates there I want.

I don't think I'm going to get license plates from there, because the plates will be too expensive and the owner will have no time to let me waste my money on crappy license plates. And I understand they may be busy. But they could have told me that they were busy and find a time they weren't busy instead of having me waste an hour of my life for nothing. I went to the antique shop in Tomah because the junkyard was such a letdown.

I got a red farm plate with the red Wisconsin which is the current low at around F and I'm suspecting that the red plates may have started at F , a Heavy Truck license plate, a pair of Heavy Truck license plates, some truck plates, and one of the last 23, wide die license plates made, with the reflective serial which most wide die license plate serials were nonreflective.

When I got there, it was a pretty large junkyard. We went to the office, and they pointed me out to the junkyard.

The first license plate I found was a Iowa license plate with the blue dies. My dad asked me to get it because it came from Dubuque which my dad likes Dubuque. The first license plate I picked for my collection was a pair of truck license plates in very good condition. One thing I was excited to learn was what the sheeting was, because the plate was in the MX series, and the latest 3M plate I knew about was from the MA series and the earliest Avery plate I knew about was from the PA series.

I had been suspecting plates from the NC series to be Avery sheeting but I couldn't see the hologram and people don't like people staring at their license plates from an inch away to find out what the sheeting is. I haven't stuck my face into license plates for about 7 years now but I don't think someone would say "sure go look at my license plate" if I asked them to try to find out what the sheeting was.

The plate was on a crushed truck on the bottom of a pile of crushed vehicles. I kept walking, then found a mystery license plate. I went to cross the ditch, but unfortunately I didn't notice that there was a whole pocket of mud under the tall grass, so both me and my dad had soaking wet shoes with who-knows-what kind of mud soaked into our shoes. The plate was a farm plate with a remnant of a sticker. I walked up to many cars and trucks, and eventually came across a car with its trunk flipped up.

I pulled the trunk down, and found a license plate on it. The month sticker was above the year sticker at the right, and I was in need of a plate after my November sticker fell apart and my July sticker was ruined by Sculpey clay beware of polymer clay near license plates. Strangely, there was three screws holding the plate on which was strange. I spent a lot of time in the trucks section of the junkyard, because I focus on collecting non-passenger license plates.

Of the most notable plates I got was a farm plate from the first 10, plates issued in the series, a truck plate, a truck plate in the MM series that was ziptied to the truck it has 3M sheeting , and a crumpled up truck plate.

My dad was also walking around and he took some license plates off of trucks. He brought back a farm plate and a farm plate which has a sticker that somehow is in slightly better condition than my farm plate sticker.

We walked some more, and I came across a plate with a dual purpose farm plate. I did not have a dual purpose farm plate from , so I tried taking the plate off. It was a borderless dual purpose farm plate from around AZ , and the screws were tiny with a plastic border around them. I couldn't get the screws to turn, so I tried feeling in the back to see if there was any nuts behind the license plate holes, and sure enough, there was two nuts. I took the nuts off and I took the plate off of the truck.

The other license plate was from and I also picked that plate off the truck. I found a Heavy Truck plate from the E weight class, and I picked that up even though my dad was telling me we had to go.

I couldn't find the other part of the pair sadly, and I'm thinking that Chris, who told me about the junkyard and went there and picked up 63 license plates a year ago, probably took it. As I was taking my license plates off the scale, I found a pair of motor home plates just sitting in a pile of stuff. I picked them up and asked how much for the plates. They asked for 50 cents, which was a good deal. Way back in 7th grade, my class was assigned a "Genius Hour" project where we come up with an idea and bring it to live.

I did not have very many ideas, until someone in my class suggested I write a book on license plates. I liked the idea, and did a license plate book for my project. It was more of a picture collection than a book. Many states didn't have text of any kind, it was just images of license plates and their stickers.

I worked on the project on and off until September 27th, , just a couple weeks before I created my website. I've added the old sticker colors to my color tables, listed as "old memory" because I really don't know if the colors are correct or not.

Then again, I got September sticker colors correct from I was also looking at my color tables for insert stickers. I noticed that the palette for colors followed a delayed cycle of passenger stickers. September was red, September was tan, September was white, September was yellow, September was orange, and it appears that September might be green.

June was red, June was tan, June was white, June was yellow, June might be red.