Duplicate Vehicle Handling

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Quick Steps:

1. Ensure you include License Plate, Province / State, and Plate Type.
2. Double-check Plate Details:
   • Confirm that plate numbers are Duplicateentered Vehicles?correctly,

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3. Add Extra Information:
   • Include Vehicle Colour, Vehicle Make, Vehicle Model, and Vehicle Year to improve identification.
4. Check for Duplicates:
   • The system will flag potential duplicates based on plate,the platedetails type,you andenter, state/province.so Often,pay duplicatesattention canto appearthese alerts.
5. Resolve Duplicates:
   • Merge any duplicate vehicles identified in the system due to the plate typeincorrect or locationmismatched being recorded incorrectly . Duplicates can create headaches since two similar vehicles may generate duplicate entries when really they are the same vehicle.

     Some scenarios that might require a vehicle merge are:

     • Duplicate vehicles created in the system due to mismatching vehicle information
     • Incorrect plate reads or plate numbers that were manually entered with an error
     • Correcting orphaned vehicles
     • Correcting orphaned violationsinformation.

     Unique Vehicle Identifiers

     There are three items which create a unique identifier for a vehicle.

     • Licence Plate
     • Province / State 
     • Plate Type

     These three pieces of information are the minimum information you can include when entering a vehicle. For example: One might think that the plate number and state origin of the plate would be enough to make the vehicle unique in the system however this does not take into account the fact that a commercial plate number might repeat the same number sequence as a regular passenger vehicle plate. It is possible to have ABC123 as a passenger plate as well as ABC123 being used on a commercial plate.  All three of these unique identifiers are required when inputting a vehicle in the system.

     Entering Vehicles

     The more information you supply when adding a vehicle the better the chance the system will work efficiently and warn you when you are adding a vehicle more than once.

     

     The best way to ensure easy identification of specific vehicles is to also include the following information:

     • Vehicle Colour
     • Vehicle Make
     • Vehicle Model
     • Vehicle Year