There are two basic strategies in scanning plates. Companies use one or the other or a combination of the two. The first is mainly looking for new accounts by scanning for vehicles that are in the national database of skips. In doing this, Walmart’s, extended-stay motels, large malls, shopping centers and the like are aggressively scanned hoping to find the skips and recover the car right then.





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