And its another to require parents of teenagers to also take classes but I think we're doing this now in NJ.
ML/NJ
If the state didn’t own the roads then they wouldn’t get to...
Having “lived” there, I think that eliminating Massachusetts would be a much better and more productive idea.
To make tax paying licensed drivers suffer with DMV workers every 4 years, who in some cases don't know the difference between a marriage license and a drivers license, that take breaks at the most inopportune times to show who is really in charge? ; )
Just about everything requires a license and/or permit....a street vendor, a smoke shop, a liquor store, a hairdresser. i have no problem with a driver’s license
Tjhe author completely misses the two important benefits to the state of the current Driver’s License system —
1) It provides a constant, consistent, source of income for the State
2) It provides the State with current locator information for virtually all of its citizens, available for whatever Big Brother purposes it deems ‘necessary’.....
Drivers licenses are only one of the Commonwealth’s entities to generate funds to keep the hacks working at doing nothing.
The problem is that you are trying to use logic here.
Renewal every 10 years makes sense, maybe 5 over 70 years of age.
The real nonsense lies with “vehicle registration”. Once ought to be enough, no? There is no rational reason for this, other than the collection of money. If it were a trivial amount that would help the sting, but a modern car or truck can get expensive.
Plates, “registration”, insurance, etc. $1500 yearly, even if it sits in the garage.
It reminds me of my own particular peeve, that local fees and taxes are billed and can only be paid as if it were 1955.
To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied upon, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. To be governed means to be, at each operation, at each transaction, at each movement, noted, registered, controlled, taxed, stamped, measured, valued, assessed, patented, licensed, authorised, endorsed, admonished, hampered, reformed, rebuked, arrested. It is to be, on the pretext of the general interest, taxed, drilled, held to ransom, exploited, monopolised, extorted, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed,- then at the least resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, abused, annoyed, followed, bullied, beaten, disarmed, garrotted, imprisoned, machine-gunned, judged, condemned, deported, flayed, sold, betrayed, and finally mocked, ridiculed, insulted, dishonoured. Such is government, such is justice, such is morality."
Last time I dealt with my DL, the state patrol was doing it, now it's "DDS," Dept of Driver's Services.
I can only hope the state patrol budget has been cut since they've been relieved of this responsibility.
I won't even go into the full-scale assault on reason I experienced when visiting them getting my daughter's learner's permit. Suffice it to say that it begin the second I pulled into the parking lot and didn't stop until I left the building.
A driver’s license is a joke. I’ve been told some states let you mail them in to renew. All it is, is a means of identification should a cop wish to write you a ticket. Period.
Know what’s a bigger joke than a driver’s license? A motorcycle driver’s license. The people administering the tests don’t have a clue what they are doing. Motorcycle licenses should not exist.
If you're a licensed citizen, however, you'd be looking at at least a $400 traffic fine.
-PJ
You dont need a drivers license to drive a car.
My license has been suspended, for various reasons for something like 20 years.
When I get pulled over and they ask me for my license, I start pretending to look for it all over my car. First emptying out my glove compartment and then searching under the car seats. I do this for as long as it takes. This always works, every time.
Driving with license revoked or suspended is the number one reason people come to our local jail. If that charge didn’t exist it would have a huge impact on prison staffing, DA staffing, public defender staffing, etc.
A license should be required to campaign for office; if elected, a separate license should be required to hold office.
You shouldn’t need a license to drive.
Imo, the insurer should issue the license. After all, your driving is at their risk. Under that regimen, a relationship would develop between the quality of the driver and his or her equipment, the degree of necessary validation, and the cost of coverage.
Driver certification should be done by insurance companies. The state should bar only driving without a suitable certification.
The insurance folks know what it pertinent to public safety.
Even speed limits should be between the driver and the insurance company.
My sister lived for 9 years in Finland. Her Finnish DL will expire when she turns 65.
Yeah they’re a bunch of greenie-wienie gun-shy socialists, but this one thing they did right IMHO.
(That is, as the OP indicates, if you have to have a DL in the first place...)
But, it will probably be a while before MA catches up to where Texas was even before we left for our "MA exile": license tags by mail, and the same for drivers' licenses -- except when you need a perodic eye test.
And now, 'most everything can be done on line.
But MA will probably never stop using State troopers (and their expensive multi-radio-equipped patrol cars) as "flagmen" on road projects (what a stupid waste!!!). We Texans gripe about our wetbacks -- but, at least we are smart enough to stick them out in the hot sun with cheap flags, rather than tie up fully loaded cruisers and their super-expensive union drivers on overtime...