Driving around here in California Friday night, I was behind a car with a Kentucky license plate. Below the plate number was another number “6000”.
Any idea what that means? I told my friend that it stood for the 6000th anniversary of the commonwealth of Kentucky and she actually believed me for a second.
FWIW, my dad always told me that the “6000” referred to the weight of the vehicle, so it was comparable to those plates you see sometimes that say “truck.” I’ll see if I can find out if that’s the real explanation.
I think those are primarily for trucks and such because I see them all the time on farm vehicles. I don’t know if it’s weight-based or not.
The plate was on an SUV or a van, so the weight of the vehicle makes a lot of sense.
Kentucky’s state government website is a maze, so I couldn’t find anything specifically about this, but I agree that "6000"s are usually on SUVs or trucks. My mom used to have one on her Explorer before we moved. So the weight explanation seems like a pretty good bet.
I live in Kentucky. It is for the weight of the vehicle. As for living in Kentucky I am not bragging.
An explorer only weighs about 4000 pounds, so it doesn’t seem like it would be the weight unless, it’s a 'for trucks upto 6000 pounds class. Which now that I think about it makes sence I guess because anything over 6000 pounds would almost certainly be a commercial truck.