OK....I mis-spoke.......they run the license plate and find out who the registered owner is. Then the officer has access to DL info......therefore....the officer knows if you have an LTC before he even gets out of his car. Of course this is if the driver and owner are the same.Your "tag" is not connected to your LTC. A good dispatcher will conduct a DL check on the registered owner of a vehicle, and some departments MDTs are programmed to do that automatically; however, the LTC database is only directly connected to the DPS DL/ID database.