Dear wpenders-ga;
Having spent many, many years in law enforcement and gaining a great
deal of insight into the Departments of Motor Vehicles in various
states in that time, I can tell you first-hand that the answer to your
question is surprisingly simple:
Typically state's issue vehicle licenses in order, often according to
letters of the alphabet (since there are more than twice as many of
them [26] as there are single numerical digits [10], zero through
nine). If a state begins with "AAA 000" for example, it will
eventually work its way through a series ?AAA 000? through ?AAA 999?
before progressing to AAB, AAC, AAD, etc. In time it will obviously
reach the next series of ABA, ABB, ABC, ABD, etc. If you work out
these combinations you will find that it allows FOR MANY YEARS of
issuances and literally thousands of license characters containing the
letter ?A? ? and all this before moving on in sequence to the primary
letters ?B?, "C", "D" and so on, some of these of which will also
contain the letter ?A? [BBA, BAB, BCA; CBA, CAB, CCA; DBA, DAB, DCA,
etc.]. See what I mean?
As it turns out Virginia is obviously well into the ?Z? series (which
accounts for why you've seen them for YEARS) and until those thousands
of combinations are exhausted you will see an inordinate number of
"Z's" on Virginia tags. In time you will probably begin seeing a lot
of "A's" again or you will notice a format change in Virginia's
licensing series.
Its as simple as that - mystery solved.
I hope you find that my answer exceeds your expectations. If you have
any questions about my research please post a clarification request
prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating and your
final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the
near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us.
Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher |
