Author: Jon Cherry
Jon Cherry is a Director of leading personalised number plate dealer Regplates.com. Jon has over 25 years industry experience handling some of the most expensive plates ever sold with many high profile and celebrity clients. Active since 1991 in the number plate industry, Jon is currently Chairman of the Cherished Numbers Guild, a trade body representing number plate dealers in the UK. Jon has written many articles on the industry and insight into the future of numberplates and the market as a whole.

Agriculture Number Plates

At the annual meeting of the Future Farmers of America (FFA) yesterday in Fresno, CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura introduced an exciting new project – a specialized number plate reading, “California Agriculture.” Registration fees from the program will be used to

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  • 20th Apr, 2010

Update -Pacific Wonderland Number Plates

The “Pacific Wonderland” number plate created to celebrate Oregon’s 150th birthday is popular. In the first month of the number plate’s sale, the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issued 2,557 in March, making the specialty number plate the second

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  • 18th Apr, 2010

Florida – Vertical Number Plates For Motorcycles

Custom motorcycle builders and riders can take to the open road without looking over their shoulders for the law in the state of Florida again. It has been reported the state’s Governor signed an amendment reversing the prior ban on

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  • 16th Apr, 2010

New Empire State Number Plate

When the state budget was proposed last year, Gov. David Paterson included a provision to charge motor vehicle owners an additional $25 for mandatory new number plates. Tens of thousands of people opposed being forced to switch to the “Empire

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  • 16th Apr, 2010

Richmond Naughty Car Number Plates

Members of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ “Word Committee” said they meet once a month to try to keep dirty words off car number plates. Committee members, all employees of the department, said they meet on the second Tuesday

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  • 12th Apr, 2010

Nebraska Number Plate Plans

Chadron State College is seeking names of vehicle owners who want to display Eagle pride on their rides. CSC staff members are working to collect names of Nebraskans who are interested in displaying a set of number plates that sport

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  • 12th Apr, 2010

F1NED Number Plate Up For Sale!

A PARKING ticket campaigner is flogging his car and personalised numberplate to raise cash for his High Court fight. Activist Neil Herron is challenging tickets issued by Sunderland City Council, claiming they were unlawful. In a case which he says

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  • 11th Apr, 2010

Gold Number Plates

Lawmakers will hear public testimony on several bills tomorrow. One is on Bill 338-30, relative to the inclusion of spouses, widows and widowers in the eligibility for issuance of special gold star number plates. Another is Bill 344-30, which would

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  • 11th Apr, 2010

Virginia Toughens Up On Illegal Number Plates

In a state where roughly one in seven vehicles sports a number plate – the highest percentage in the country – it shouldn’t be a shock that some car owners try to turn heads with naughty words. What’s surprising is

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  • 11th Apr, 2010

Additional Number Plates For Auction

SHANGHAI municipal government said today it will offer an extra 500 car number plates for auction this month. But industry analysts predict the higher quota would do little help to prevent the price from rising amid heated demand. A total

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  • 10th Apr, 2010