[DogByte6RER]

My own personal nightmare with CA DMV ... in late 2009 I purchased this '56 Ford "Rat Rod Hearse" via auction. Later while trying to register and change the title through DMV, DMV investigators show up at my house, inspect it and impound the car. The VIN set off red flags in the DMV system, indicating it was a fradulent identification number. DMV arrested the seller and I got the car back out of impound a week later, minus $500+ in impound fees. I'm glad I have the car back, but bitter about the $500+ hit to my checking account.

[Salamander]

I...LOVE...THAT...CAR.

[null and void]

Katherine Smith Bump

Five Men with Mideast Ties Indicted in License Scam (Tennessee License Scandal)

TENN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS

Car fire set off suspicions as crew fought it (Smith Tennesee License Scandal)

License suspect had WTC repair pass, but Port Authority did its own work [Tennessee License Scandal]

The pass gave him access to the buildings' sprinkler systems.

I bet he "fixed" them real good...

Treason is not too strong a word.

[Gay State Conservative]

That’s how I like to describe OsamaObamaCare...”health care delivered with the efficiency of the DMV and with the compassion of the IRS”

[Bronzy]

It is not an issue in Indiana as I have experienced: excerpt from article -

“For the second time in three years, first time for any state has ever achieved this, this year's winner of the International Customer Service Award, best BMV anywhere on the planet is the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles,” Gov. Mitch Daniels announced to a cheering crowd of employees.

There were cheers for lower wait times. The average service transaction was down from 12 minutes 15 seconds in 2007, to about eight minutes, ten seconds in 2010. A decline despite Indiana's move to a more Secure ID process.

http://www.wthr.com/story/13225281/indiana-bmv-gets-top-honors

[RightOnline]

This reply will probably be deleted, of course....but as one who has been driving for over 40 years and has lived all over these United States, I’m willing to lay serious money on the fact that the overwhelming majority, if not all, of these instances involved affirmative action hires who couldn’t tie their own shoes without instructional videos.

Prove me wrong.

[MarineBrat]

I have a AAA membership specifically so that I don’t have to go to the stinking DMV. It’s worth the cost just for that.

[boatbums]

My nightmare with the Florida DMV:

I got stopped for speeding in 1985 and issued a ticket (the ONLY one I have EVER gotten) for $75.00. It was nearly Christmas, so I put off paying it. When I finally got the money, I went to pay it and was also fined an extra $10 for "late fees" for it being two weeks late.

Fast forward FOUR years later and it is time to renew my driver's license. I go in on my birthday after work (the 1st. of the month but thinking I had until the end of the month to renew) and find out that my license has been suspended for the past four years. I ask them (1) why is it suspended? and (2) how come I never got any notice of such?.

The answer is I had an unpaid speeding ticket and we don't know why no one told you it was suspended. I told them I paid the ticket as well as the late fee back when I got it. They proceed to tell me I will have to go to the clerk of the circuit court and get an affidavit that says I paid the fine. Of course, it being after 5:00 by now, that office is closed so I will have to wait until the next day to get the form and come back.

The clerk then told me, "Now we have to confiscate your current license because it is suspended." "How am I supposed to get home without a license?", I ask. Not our problem, was pretty much the response, don't get caught because driving on a suspended license will mean you get arrested and taken to jail and your car impounded. I prayed that I wouldn't get caught and drove carefully all the way home. It was no comfort knowing that for the last four years I could have been arrested no matter why I was stopped!

I go to the clerk's office the next morning and after paying another fee, I get a certified form that says I paid the fine. I then drive to the DMV (still without a license), present the form and it is accepted and I'm then told I have to pay a "reinstatement" fee in order to renew my license. Oh, and by the way, I also now have to pay a late fee because I am renewing one day late after my license expired.

The whole fiasco cost me a bundle and, after all the hassle I had to go through to get the dang thing, the picture on my new license told it all. A "mug shot" would probably have been more flattering. If looks could kill...mine would have!

[freekitty]

The DMV needs some strong changes.

[higgmeister]

Happy to say Georgia cleaned up its act several years ago. We order tags or stickers online or by mail and get them within a few days. Same with the License renewal either online or in person. If you have to appear in person for some age milestones or classes, you go to the first desk with minimum waiting and move between stations through the building in a circular fashion back outside through another door. It has been virtually painless for several years.

[doorgunner69]

I recall being stuck in the Calif. DMV line for some damn thing or another. Next line over were a couple of very unwashed bikers, trying to register one of those POS things they ride. Apparently this was assembled of parts from many other bikes. They had a stack of paper an inch thick. Great comedy watching them try to convince the DMV clerk that all that paper was true and honest, nothing from a stolen bike.

The whole charade stunk of a bike assembled from stolen parts, the clerk knew it too. Dunno if they ever got paperwork, but great theater to watch.

[The KG9 Kid]

COP: “Son, you don’t have a license yet. You aren’t allowed to drive without an adult in the vehicle. You failed the test.”

I hope that cop got shot in the ass by a crook who got away and ran off laughing.

[Right Wing Assault]

I failed by 1 point. You can miss 7 and I missed 8.

How can anyone miss 8 on a driving test?

[Ditter]

I had a similar experience as the first one mentioned in this story. I went to get my drivers license in 1954, I was 14, you could get it at 14 back then.

When the DVM guy got in the car with me he didn't say hello, he said “there are no one way streets on this course”

As I pulled away from the curb he said “there are no one way streets on this course”.

As I am driving down the street he repeats “there are no one way streets on this course”.

Then he say “turn left on the next street you come to”.

As I am turning left he screams “THERE ARE NO ONE WAY STREETS ON THIS COURSE!”

By this time I am so rattled that I turn into the wrong side of a street with a esplanade.

He smiles broadly and say “you failed, let's go back to the office”.

I have had 2 warrants issued for my arrest too, because of traffic tickets. A speeding ticket in south Texas that I had paid. When I got the letter about the warrant I called them and they looked in a desk drawer and said “oh yeah, here's your check, never mind”.

The other warrant was a parking ticket on a rent car in California, it took them over a year to find me but they did and I paid.

[Cowman]

The DMV was started as a simple registry of vehicles and their owners as a means of determining ownership of a particular vehicle should the need arise.

If there's a better example of why giving power to government is a bad idea I don't know what it is.