Out-of-State/Province Licence Plates

"lonestranger" (lonestranger) 07/27/2015 at 19:15 • Filed to: None

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Sitting in a parking lot earlier today, I was noticing the various non-local licence plates and what is and isn’t commonly seen in my area. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! got me to thinking about it again.

Here in Kamloops in the British Columbia Interior, by far the most common ones I see are Alberta, followed by Washington, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , Saskatchewan, Manitoba, California, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Idaho, and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (one virtual cookie for anyone who can guess, without cheating, why I see AZ & CT).

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Massachusetts, though I’d probably assume it was Alberta and pay no attention. On the other hand, I have !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , plus wherever the hell !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is from.

So, what out-of State (or Province) plates do you guys normally see?

PanchoVilleneuve ST > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:17

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As someone who lives in Connecticut, I apologize for how boring our plates are.

lone_liberal > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:27

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I was in Seattle this weekend and I’m pretty sure the entire populace of Canada was also there. The streets were teeming with people wearing Blue Jays gear and Canadian flags, and at Safeco Field the Jays fans outnumbered the Mariner fans by quite a margin (because the Mariners suck, and I say that as a fan who went to two of the games). That meant the drive home was full of BC and Alberta plates. Normally I see mostly Idaho followed by Montana, BC, Alberta and an odd Oregon thrown in.

lonestranger > PanchoVilleneuve ST 07/27/2015 at 19:30

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Most Canadian ones are fairly plain & simple, too. Besides, blue/white gradient FTW:

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:31

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Most often Mass, PA, and Ontario, occasionally Quebec, Vermont, NH, CT, Maine, VA, WV, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisc, Alberta, Manitooba.

lonestranger > lone_liberal 07/27/2015 at 19:33

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My parents were on one of the (likely many) Canadian tour buses at Safeco, but they’re M’s fans.

lone_liberal > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:39

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They showed one woman on the big screen that said something like “I’m from Canada but I’m a Mariners fan”. It got quite the reaction from the crowd. Here at home we mostly see Canadian plates in the Costco parking lot.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:40

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BC plates everywhere. Some select BCers flood down to the Marysville, WA, outlet malls. Also down through to Portland, because no sales tax.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > lone_liberal 07/27/2015 at 19:41

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Mariners really suck. I can feel myself aging quicky watching this team.

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 07/27/2015 at 19:44

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We went to the game Felix pitched Friday and the one Happ pitched on Saturday. The Friday one, after a couple of first inning defensive mistakes, was pretty enjoyable. The one Saturday? Well, it involved Fernando Rodney. Enough said.

thebigbossyboss > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:48

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Does it count if I live on an interprovincial boundary? By far the most common is Quebec. Followed by New Brunswick, followed by New York although there are not a lot of us plates up here.

Also...I am going to Prince George soon. Hooray!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > lone_liberal 07/27/2015 at 19:49

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He’s lost us so many games that even his horrible numbers are generous. They don’t reflect how many times he’s blown leads in what were technically nonsave sitatuons. He can’t go one inning without at least allowing a run. His box score is always: 1IP 2H 2ER 2BB 1SO, 500000 pitches.

Sorry. Just venting

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 07/27/2015 at 19:51

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Right there with you. Even last year when he racked up all of those saves he never had clean innings. There was always somebody on base and often a couple of guys. I’ve never been a fan.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > lone_liberal 07/27/2015 at 19:54

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That’s the thing about Lloyd though... if you massage his genitals, he will stand by you to the point of insanity.

Alex from Toronto > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:55

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I see alot of New York, New Jersey, and Quebec plates.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 19:56

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Arizona is the Liberia of commercial vehicle registration (Oregon is the Liberia of personally-owned RV registrations, IIRC). I have no clue on CT, though. Maybe they’re the closest equivalent in the northeast?

lonestranger > lone_liberal 07/27/2015 at 19:59

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Dat cheap milk doe.

not for canada - australian in disguise > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 20:03

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In Edmonton, it’s mostly BC, SK, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Washington, and sometimes Northwest Territories or Yukon, also rarely Nova Scotia, PEI, or New Brunswick.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 20:17

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Alberta, there are shit ton’s of Albertan’s in Whitefish MT.

lonestranger > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 07/27/2015 at 20:19

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Yep, my Mom’s one of those B.C. plates at the outlet mall and Tulalip Casino.

Spasoje > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 20:27

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Vancouver here. It’s mostly Washington and Alberta, folowed closely by the occasional California, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and U-Haul ‘from’ Arizona. I’ve seen those German-plated RVs too, though the ratio is half Euro-style Class C’s and half current-gen Eurovans (i.e. the T5).

Apart from those, there was one lifted H2 with Italian plates and literally ALL the stick-on chrome bits, plus this Dutch E39 that I’ve seen a couple times now:

lonestranger > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/27/2015 at 20:32

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Canada has only two major railroads, and each has a coast-to-coast main line. There’s only a few cities that both main lines go through, and mine is one of them. I also live a couple of blocks from heavy duty truck shop that services hy-rail trucks .

This is my long way of saying that I often see Sperry Rail Service trucks from Danbury, CT.

BJ > lonestranger 07/27/2015 at 21:24

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Here in Montreal we see a lot of US plates, the most common are Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts. We get a lot of Ontario plates as well, as well as a good number of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia plates.

None of this should be surprising if you know basic geography...

facw > lonestranger 07/28/2015 at 01:09

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Here in Houston it’s almost all Texas, with the occasional Louisiana. Though I have seen both Alaska and Hawaii in my building’s parking lot.