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California Runs Out of License Plate Number Combinations
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California drivers will soon be seeing a different sequence of letters and numbers on newly issued license plates after the state reached the end of a format used for more than four decades. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has exhausted the available combinations under its familiar seven-character passenger vehicle plate sequence, which consists of one number, three letters and three numbers. The format began in 1980 with 1AAA000 and reached the end of the line with the production of 9ZZZ999 earlier this year. Now, the DMV is reversing the arrangement…
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