Utah License Plates

As of January 2025, several reporters observe that the series has apparently reset to the beginning of the A's. Apparently, the DMV is reissuing old numbers that have been dormant for x number of years. This change appears to coincide with the plates going flat.

Ken Reager spotted the 6th plate of the original run of this series, A00 6AA.

Chad Garner advised that plates with "FC" and "FK" endings were once issued, including AFC, AFK, BFC, BFK, ZFC, and ZFK. The practice appears to have stopped around 2012 as YFC, YFK, CFC and CFK were all skipped.

Utah usually does not issue plates with letters K and X beside each other. 2007 skier letters AKX, AXK, and BKX were skipped while the CKX series was issued.

As of January 2025, several reporters observe that the series has apparently reset to the beginning of the Z's. Apparently, the DMV is reissuing old numbers that have been dormant for x number of years. This change appears to coincide with the plates going flat.

Each leading letter goes backwards, same as the original Arch plates, but the progression within the series is forward. Therefore, the first plate of the series was Z00 1AA, working forward to Z99 9ZZ, then the Y series followed starting at Y00 1AA, working forward to the current high. Low: Z82-2AA.

Utah moved to the JR Wald print-to-emboss manufacturing method around October 2022, first noticed on personalized plates. On the Arch plates, it most likely began at T00 1HA with the old font ending at T99 9GZ.

New font low: T00 8HA, old font high: T99 9GZ.

Chad Garner confirmed YKX, ZXK and BXK series were issued between June-August 2010 on the 2007 Arch even though Utah does not usually issue plates with X and K next to each other. Other XK and KX combinations such as ZKX, BKX were skipped.

As of January 2025, the series has moved to a D000A format. Apparently, the DMV is reissuing old numbers that have been dormant for x number of years. The D000A series was previously issued on generic specialty plates in 2012-13. This change appears to coincide with the plates going flat.

Changed to new font in 2023; New Font Low: 9Z0GL and Old Font High: 4Z3GL

This was originally just another specialty plate on the generic base, with graphics and slogan applied with decals. Starting in January 2017 this became a no-fee option, with the design printed on the plate and with its own alphanumeric series. The no-fee series began with Z001A, ran up to Z999Z, and then rolled over to Y001A, and so on, with the first alpha progressing backwards.

Of course, this could only go on so long before it threatened to collide with the generic specialty series, which was advancing up through the alphabet in the same format. Catastrophe was narrowly averted in April 2018 when, upon reaching N999Z, rather than going to M001A, this series rolled over to a brand-new 0A0AA format. That format was exhausted (presumably at 9Z9ZZ) in August 2023, and the current 0AAA0 format debuted.

Utah 2007 ski base Apportioned Trailer license plates feature A prefix with upper half of six-digit series and "Greatest Snow On Earth" slogan along bottom confirmed as high as A534349.

Can anyone provide photo evidence of which slogan was used on any higher observations? We are awaiting the appearance of the 2019+ "APPORTIONED" word mark on this series.

Utah 2007 ski base Apportioned Vehicle license plates feature A prefix with lower half of six-digit series and initially the "Greatest Snow On Earth" bottom slogan. The "APPORTIONED" word mark replaced earth slogan by A036165 in 2019.

Wald format since at least 1/1/24

New dies now in use.

New die low: ZP92X

Old die high: ZP series.

UHP logo is between prefix and suffix.

This is the new Ski plate.

As of January 1, 2023, off-highway vehicles (excluding motorcycles and snowmobiles) require a license plate. More information is available from the DNR.

Utah trailer plates are now issued on the "Life Elevated" base with seven digits. The Ski base ends with A. The Arch base ends with Z.

Arch high - 094713Z

09657 R is the high for the original Ski base.

UDOT Incident Management trucks use these supplementary plates, which identify the vehicle's radio callsign, in addition to Exempt (E/X) plates.

As of January 2025, the series has reverted to the old A000A format. Apparently, the DMV is reissuing old numbers that have been dormant for x number of years. This change appears to coincide with the plates going flat. In April 2025, the 0000A format was also observed.

New Font Low: 05FD0

Old Font High: 63FB3

The "decal" specials (antique, military, pets, wildlife, universities) share the same formats on this generic plate, so there is only one high for specials. The finished plates have a logo at the left and a slogan at the bottom. Handicapped and In God We Trust originally were part of this series, but both have since moved off to their own formats and series (shown elsewhere on this page).

The original format was 0000A, with a high of 4285U. That format had to stop there, lest it collide with the still-valid 1996 Centennial Handicap series, which used the same format, with a descending alpha. The next format was A000A through presumably M999Z. The format had to stop there to avoid conflict with In God We Trust (shown elsewhere on this page). At that point (summer 2019) the current 00AA0 format was adopted.

Expected availability mid-2025.

This series first appeared on the DMV website in December 2022. At that time these plates were limited to vehicles model year 1980 or older, primarily a collector’s item, and used for participation in club activities, exhibitions, tours, parades and occasional transportation but not for general daily transportation. By spring 2023, that limitation had been removed and these plates became available to all vehicles as a fundraiser for the Utah State Historical Society. Vehicles 1983-up registered in the Vintage category may not use these plates.

This is a low and a high since only one has ever been issued in Utah. The recipient was George Wahlen.

Utah is no longer using county stickers. Tony Burdett reports that county stickers still appeared on the LXx series plates, but not on the LZx series. No LYx series have been seen yet. The screened CY designation on the plates for sticker location was dropped between MGN and MMY.

On the Arch plates, the XXx series had county stickers, but none of the Wxx series have them. May 2002 seems to have been the approximate time that county stickers ended.

It appears that 999 PMV was likely the last plate of this issue.

Each leading letter goes backwards (after XZZ comes WAA, then VAA, now UAA)

Utah 2002 Olympics specialty plates were issued from 1998 until June 30, 2002. Replacements of this design are no longer available.

Low: 523A4