Dealer tags ... a blessing and a curse.
In Texas dealer tags were often handed out by the handful to the buyer of the car.
Safety? Nah, just a revenue generation scheme.
These were real metal license plates that the dealership had to buy, not like a temp tag. I’m not sure what they cost, but I know if we ever lost one, or one didn’t come back from a test drive, it would cost the salesman a couple hundred bucks.