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 These plates are used on tow trucks. A shop must first have Dealer or Repair plates in order to obtain Wrecker plates. Non-dealer or repair tow trucks use regular Commercial plates.
This type appears to have started in 1954. The same colors and format were used through 1957. Starting in 1958 or 1959, white on blue plates were used, and beginning in 1961 Wrecker plates followed the same annually-reversing color scheme as Dealer and Repair plates. Thus, 1961, 63, 65, etc. were blue on white, and 1962, 64, 66, etc. were white on blue.
Starting I believe in 1967, decals were used to validate blue on white plates. This color scheme lasted until the early 2000s. At this time, Wrecker plates were re-issued in black on orange, still validated with decals. Along with Dealer and Repair plates, Wrecker is one of the few types to have fully-embossed captions and numbers. In my opinion, this is what makes it one of the more "readable" types on the roads- no squinting to see a small legend screened on the bottom of a generic light blue plate.
Sometime in the early 2000s, a new type was introduced - "Wrecker Vehicle In Tow". See below for a description of this type. |
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1954
This may have been the first year for this type. |
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1974
These plates must have been made on leftover blanks, since it has tab slots - but Wrecker plates used stamped-dated annual issues well past the tab years. |
1976 expiration.
Fitting number for the year. |
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1981
This is an older plate than the one to the left, yet has a higher number. Wrecker plates were issued with a hodgepodge of numbers during this timeframe - old numbers (and even plates!) were re-issued. |
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Wrecker Vehicle In Tow
These plates are the same colors as Dealer/Repair plates for the year, and feature the same serial number as that of the wrecker. Because there are so many words on these plates (along with the Connecticut state name on the bottom) the dies for the numbers appear to be those formerly used on Motorcycle plates. These plates do not appear to be widely used.
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