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 Transporter plates are 'floater' plates which have a variety of uses in Connecticut.
These include: Movement of unregistered vehicles for the purposes of inspection, sale or transfer, use on vehicles being reposessed, movement of storage or house-type trailers with removable axle assemblies, transporting boats between a dealership and demonstration location, and movement of vehicles to and from construction sites.
The use of Transporter plates differs from that of Dealer and Repair plates in that the plates may not be loaned, and may not be used for personal business.
This type is believed to have started in the late 1940s. The plates have an all-numeric serial, and are captioned 'Trans.'.
Starting in the 1960s, there were two varieties of Transporter plates - one for vehicles such as passenger cars, and another for commercial-type vehicles. The colors for the two classes were reversed from each other, and the colors for each were reversed every year as well. Thus, the
color scheme for a passenger transporter in, say, 1966 would be the same color scheme as that of a commercial transporter in 1967. The annual reversing of colors ended in 1980, when stickered plates came into use.
In 2002, the distinction between types was done away with, and there is now only one general class of Transporter.
Transporter plates have loosely followed the design of Dealer and Repair plates. In the 1980s, while Dealer and Repair plates used special decals, Trans. plates used standard passenger decals. With the general reissue in 2000, Trans. plates became maroon on reflective yellow - still validated with passenger decals, unlike Dealer and Repair plates which now have an embossed date and are replaced every two years.
Transporter plates expire annually on the last day of March.
Reference Sec. 14-35
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1961
These '164' plates are all of the reverse-color variety, as evidenced by this 1961 plate. How were the two types distinguished pre-1961, before the reverse-color scheme came into use? Let me know if you can tell me. |
1962 reverse-color |
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1963 that's seen better days.
I received a pair of these plates that seemed
to be permanently mated with a rusty bolt and nut. It took a bit of work, but I was able to finally cut through the bolt and seperate them. |
1967 reverse colors |
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1968 with '69 decal.
I don't know how common this was, or if this decal even belongs there. |
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| 1972 standard colors |
1972 reverse colors |
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1975 |
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1977 reverse colors.
Interestingly enough, this plate has the reflective beading on the numbers - this didn't appear on Dealer/Repair/Trans. plates until the 1980 plates. |
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| 1979 standard colors |
1979 reverse colors |
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1984. While Dealer and Repair plates used a different type of decal from '82 to '91, Trans. plates used regular passenger-style decals |
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1995 revalidated through 2001 |
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