Renewed my Driver's License today...

Wow, my state is allowing online renewal every other time if there is no change in information. I did it this year.

Glad it went smoothly for you.
Here in Oregon we have to show the same things you did but if you are an illegal alien you just stae that you are and they give you a drivers license.

Hmmmmmmmm

This is the year I need to renew mine. Note sure if I can prove I was born. No passport ever needed. May have to quit driving.

A few days ago my worker's compensation insurance carrier threatened to cancel my policy (after 14 years) if I couldn't prove I was an American citizen. Sheesh.

I'm not looking forward to renewing my DL at all. I'm hoping they ask me for a stool sample. I'll sure give 'em one...

Paden does sound like one of those illegal alien Swedes.

I mailed my yearly renewal for my car twice to the county.
They said somebody else owned my car. So I went to a new
annex; it had five people waiting; the other county office has
200 waiting. Instead of paying $72 at the county, I paid $7
for a lost sticker. I had lost some time but saved $65.

Did mine a couple months ago, same stuff needed and I was prepared. Wife wasn't and came home all emotionally bent out of shape. They asked if I wanted my veterans status shown. I said OK, then they asked to see a DD214 which I didn't have so I told them to forget it, didn't want to go back.

How does a birth certificate prove anything? I don't look anything like the picture which ain't on there. Even if there was a picture I don't look anything like that little guy at this point. I did take legitimate doc's but don't see how they could tell if they where actually my doc's. Seems to me we are using 200 year old technology for a modern problem. They do take your picture and that probably ends up deep into the network along with your SS#, birth certificate, DD214, etc. If they didn't have copies on file before they do now, think about it.

We had to

provide the same documents to renew our Surveyor's license here in Georgia last year. The original bill was worded such that we would have to provide these every time we renewed. This years legislature amended that so that we only have to provide them once.

Andy

I thought I had to go through the same thing. Got the renewal in the mail and sat on it until I thought I had time to go wait in the lines. Once I finally sat down and read it turns out all I had to do was send the form back with a copy of a utility bill, car registration and have the eye doctor's office fill out the eye test portion of the form. Easy! But if you go into the office then you have to bring in all the other stuff.

Someday soon, somebody will commit a crime or terrorist act with false credentials, and then everybody will be asking "how did this happen?"

Today's reality is that a driver's license has a much more important role as ID than it did years ago. And there must be a whole slew of ways to counterfeit ID documents, so there has to be some method of better verification.

I'd guess that as people renew on line, not much can be done, but once they come into the DMV office, the policy is to upgrade the requirements.

I renewed mine on Monday in about ten minutes. All they wanted was $25.75, cash.

I'm proud that I remembered to wear a different shirt than last time for the photo.

I had to change my Okie one for a Kentucky one after I moved. I only handed them my Okie one and some $$$ and I was good to go.

When I got my tags they inspected my truck though. Sheriff came out to check the vin but didn't look at lights/tires or anything else. I guess the tobacco stain down the side was enough to prove that the truck deserved a Kentucky tag. He was a little concerned though about the lack of a shotgun rack in the window. He told me where the best place was to get one and also mentioned that they sold hunting licenses.

The joys of Kentucky.

Now

If you had brought the TBird he'd have KNOWN you weren't from Kentucky:-P

Andy

I don't buy that Deral -

There are only about two types of trucks on the road in Kentucky

1. The super jacked up 4WD that you need a rope ladder to get into. I know the tobacco stain claim would not work for that truck as they never even have a speck of dust on them. Look like something that just came off the showroom floor.

2. The ancient 2WD beater that is so banged up and covered in mud that a tobacco stain would not even show up. Besides, usually the window doesn't even work so the tobacco goes directly into a mountain dew bottle. What is really funny is when the driver isn't paying attention and grabs the wrong dew bottle and realizes too late that he didn't get the last drink of Mountain Dew.

If your truck didn't match those two types, you are probably on the sheriff's radar now as one of them "for-nors".

We are having our KAPS chapter meeting in Paducah this month (May 23rd). If your interested in attending, send me an e-mail and I'll get you the details.

I don't buy that Deral -

We have those super jacked up 4WDs too.

Ditto the speck free comment. Even the giant mud tires look showroom new.

Those guys push those thing hard, they are always the worst behaved drivers out there. Why you would want to go everywhere in a non-aerodynamic giant truck with tires that go WA WA WA WA loudly (and have lots of diesel sucking rolling resistence) when you never leave the pavement, I don't know. Well I have a size related theory which isn't appropriate here.

I don't buy that Deral -

I'm guessing the WA WA WA sound is the ridiculously huge tires?

You may not have this additional issue in California, but around here they will take a perfectly good truck and for some reason putz up the exhaust system so that it sounds like crap.

Then they feel the need to stomp on the gas peddle every time they take off so that everyone else can enjoy the crappy sound of their 'truck'.