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A license plate search is very similar to a standard VIN check. There are many services that can provide a free license plate search and the results will be similar to what you see with a VIN check. You may find while searching for your next used car, the owner has neglected to provide the VIN number. The Official Whitepages. Whitepages is the authority in people search, established in 1997. With comprehensive contact information, including cell phone numbers, for over 275 million people nationwide, and Whitepages SmartCheck, the fast, comprehensive background check compiled from criminal and other records from all 50 states.

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FindbyPlate.com is a free resource for license plate lookup and reporting bad drivers. In most cases the website will identify the car and its basic information. If other users have submitted any reports about the license plate number, images, videos, comments or even related websites, you'd be able to see that information. Please use this license plate lookup service at your own risk, we do not warrant the validity of this information, nor we guarantee accuracy of the details. We also do not display VIN details, or provide a VIN lookup service.

License plates (aka vehicle tags,vehicle registration number, number plates, etc.) have been around since 1893. New York was the first state to require a registration plate on vehicles in 1903. But back then license plates were not government issued, Massachusetts was the first US state to provide government issued license plates.

What does a license plate search result provide?

When you do a reverse license plate number search on FindByPlate, you will access a report about the motor vehicle, government recalls, vehicle sketch and image. In many cases, if the license plate was previously reported, you will see images and videos submitted by our community, read comments and feedback, view related resources and more.

If you'd like to receive additional information, you may try contacting your state or local law enforcement, DMV, motor vehicles agency or local police department. They can provide additional information upon request and sometimes for a fee. All the information displayed on our website is public records.

Specialty and Vanity Plates

In most countries and states people can register vanity registration and personalized license plate, with custom characters or numbers. For example a personalized plate or a vanity license plate may read 'MY RIDE'. In most countries and states profanities, obscene or offensive words or meanings. Registration is usually available on state DMV office's official website. A driver's license is required for vanity plate registration. These specialized and vanity numbers may incur additional license plate fees, it depends on the plate type. Contact your state Department of Motor Vehicles for more details on registration fee and procedure or check our state pages for fees, official websites and additional details.

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Temporary Registration Plates

Some state DMVs now require temporary license plates on newly purchased or leased vehicles. Temporary tags have an expiration, usually it's 90 days (may differ from country to country or state to state). This is usually attached to the driver's license information until the actual vanity plates or regular license plates are issued and shipped.

Why Should I Report Bad Drivers?

According to U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are more than 35,000 fatal crashes in United States each year (average based on data from 1960-2017), and there are over 3 million people injured each year. There are more that 270 million vehicles registered in US. Bad drivers continue to break the laws until they are caught and arrested. Local police looks up license plate records to identify offenders, sometimes they may refer to arrest records, license plate check, VIN check details and other sources to pull historical information on lawbreakers. Reporting a bad driver will put them on a lookout and will result in safer driving. In case they are arrested, public records of our website may help investigators to create a compelling case against the offenders.

Report Your Uber or Lyft Driver

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Did you know that when you check your Uber or Lyft driver license plate number through the app, you don't always see the actual reviews. People refrain from posting bad reviews online as the drivers would know who posted the bad review. But through FindByPlate.com you can stay 100% anonymous when posting online reviews. The driver, Uber or Lyft staff will never have access to our user records.

Searching for Vehicle License Plate Owner Information?

We constantly get emails from our users, asking us to publicly show license plate owner information, but it's not that easy. We have prepared a quick introduction to laws and regulations governing license plate owner information.

How's My Driving?

Most probably you see at least one such vehicle that has a 'How's My Driving?' decal on it, make sure you don't submit fake reports, but if you are planning to report, make sure to post on FindByPlate.com as well! Search license plate information and report a good or bad driver.

Don't know the state?

If you are unsure of the state where the license plate was issued, you can check our License Plate Designs in the USA page. Our license plate records are updated daily, if you don't find the information today, try coming back later for detailed license plate records.

How to lookup a license plate

Do you need to lookup information based on a license plate number? FindByPlate will do the work for you to find available plate information online, for free!

Here is a step by step guide on how to search license plate and report bad drivers:

1. Open a web browser
2. Go to FindByPlate.com
3. Enter the license plate number and select state
4. View the report
5. View images submitted by the community
6. View videos submitted by the community
7. Add comments
8. Add pictures of the vehicle
9. Add videos related to the vehicle

Is it legal to look up someone's license plate?

It is perfectly legal to run any license plate as it is a matter of public records. But if you are trying to retrieve personally identifiable information (PII), then you should have specific DPPA (Driver's Privacy Protection Act) reasons for it. The permissible use cases are:

• for government agencies;
• in connection with matters of motor vehicle or driver safety and theft;
• in normal course of business to verify the the accuracy of information provided by the car owner;
• in connection with any matter before a court or arbitration proceeding;
• in research activities (excluding personal information);
• for insurance purposes;
• for providing notice to owners of towed cars;
• by any licensed private investigative agency or licensed security service;
• by employers to verify commercial driver information as required by U.S. Code Title 49, subtitle VI, chapter 313;
• by private toll transportation facilities;
• for response to requests from deparments of motor vehicles;
• bulk distribution for surveys, marketing or solicitations (requires opt-in);
• by written consent of the owner;
• for other reasons (varies by state).

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So running a license plate search is perfectly legal, unless you want to find out personally identifiable information, which is still legal if you have a DPPA permissible use case.