Tennessee’s new-look license plates are quickly turning into a bad look for the state as some law enforcement agencies, including several in Shelby County, struggle to read the new tags.
I can vouch for that, as the other night I pulled behind a pickup truck with the new look plates, and from a distance of between five to 10 feet when i pulled up to the stoplight, the whole tag reflected a white sheen, which made the tag unreadable.
Think I have a solution, which is rather simple in nature. How about we revert to the time-tested embossed letter and numbers for our new look plates. Multiple studies have shown that embossed plates are easier to view under low light conditions. Ask Canada, as the new-look Ontario plates, which were also blue with white numbers/letters and flat, were unreadable at night to the point Ontario recalled all the plates, and reinstated the old, but trusty embossed license plates.
Remember Tennesseeans before 2006 and the unfortunate change over to flat digital license plates, all Tennessee tags were embossed, and to my humble opinion they looked much better.
Multiple states have reverted back to embossed plates such as NC, NV, and AK, so how about it, let’s notify our state officials, and tell them bring back the “old school" embossed plates.
Dennis Garcia in Ooltewah