Vanity-plate requests judged not street-worthy

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas is a big state, and drivers here spend a lot of time on the road.

So it’s only natural that some motorists want to share a message while they are driving around in their cars or trucks.

But apparently not all of those messages are road-worthy.

Take DAAAYUM, GOTWEED and ESTUPID, for instance.

These were among the 2,243 proposed personalized licence plates rejected in 2017 by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for violating approval guidelines.

“When a proposed plate sequence is received, it is reviewed by multiple TxDMV staff members,” said Wendy Cook, a spokeswoman for the department.

Sometimes it seems as if everything comes back to politics.

So it should be no surprise that political jabs were aplenty in the licence plate rejection pile.

Among those messages, made up of six to seven letters, turned down last year: NOTRUMP, N2TRUMP and one with an expletive referring to the U.S. president.

Other political messages: DPORTME, ENSLAVE, NSTYWM and NOBAMA.

Other licence plates rejected last year likely were turned down because they could misrepresent law enforcement or governmental officials or their titles. Those include: US AGENT, PRESDNT, TEXDPS, THEMAYR, DA MAYOR and GUVNOR. But don’t worry. If you propose a vanity licence plate that’s rejected, there’s still an appeals process. Just get ready to wait for a little while. “The turnaround time for this process is approximately three months,” Cook said.