I know why so many are unlicensed or unregistered.

[Kinman]

I quite driving city bus back around 2000, transferred into building maintenance where they needed me to get a permit for hauling 10K+ of deice for the plows as well as fixed bed load, ended up with hazardous endorsement on fixed axle. I carried it as well as my passenger endorsement for years and even used it to haul folks from a retirement home as a volunteer. I retired around 11 years ago and kept the endorsements for a few years to continue hauling old folks, gave that up a few years ago and when the time came to renew my license discovered that although everyone else can renew online because I had mulitiple endorsements it required my in person at the DMV. Expecting the worse as others have mentioned above I got there early and pleased to breeze through within fifteen minutes.

 

[Doug M.]

I did not have much trouble with the new DL # format or any of the other crud, but I am in a small enough city that I did not have to wait long. The silly part is taking the photo without glasses to ensure that facial recognition software will work; I have worn glassed since I was seven and I could barely find a vehicle without them.

 

[BC38]

I did not have much trouble with the new DL # format or any of the other crud, but I am in a small enough city that I did not have to wait long. The silly part is taking the photo without glasses to ensure that facial recognition software will work; I have worn glassed since I was seven and I could barely find a vehicle without them.

That's funny!

For those of us required to wear glasses to drive, it would seem like the facial recognition software would work better with our glasses on rather than with them off. Pretty much anytime they're going to try to ID me by photo I'll be wearing my glasses.

 

[DesertFox]

Passport expired here so I'm screwed in more ways than 2.

Renewing my DL this year was a 1st in that I went online to a website, paid a fee, and viola - new DL arrives in my mailbox.

Same ugly mug shot as last time but hey, I didn't have to leave the comfort of my chair, meet the line of Venezuelans, and deal with DMV employees.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Our shop receptionist (and kinda my official unofficial secretary) used to manage a DMV.
she is very nice and pleasant but get sideways with her she’ll rip you a new bung.
Her husband is a marine but I’m putting my money and safety in her.