Posted: 9/29/2006 11:25:30 AM EDT
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Dropped by AAA to get maps and renew truck registration. AAA DMV needs to be cash or check no plastic. So I went home to try the online process. Got it done in about 45 seconds, the longest part of the process was getting my wallet out of my pocket. Somebody is doing something right. |
I'll give you a little tip. Its a lot less likely if the address on your CDL, Veh Reg and the place you get your mail are all the same. The post office never forwards license plates and should not forward registration cards or stickers. |
| Try registering a military auction vehicle!! I just spent 6 wks and 4 visits to the local DMV to get a military pickup - CUCV registered. A total nightmare. The seller wouldn't give out the ownership form and the DMV wouldn't register without it even thou I had an offical bill of sale. DMV is totally too anal. |
lighten up, francis.... I just renewed my CDL via the intarweb. Didn't even need to write a check. 
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I renew mine online. a couple years back if you review online you'll get charged $7 for 'convenient fee'. They don't do that anymore. DMV is the shithole. 
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DMV is a hell of a lot better than they used to be and their online service is better than most commercial services I have used. I'm mystified as there is no profit motive. Someone high up in the DMV must just have a lot of pride in his job and wants to make sure the client experience is as pleasant as possible.
There's nothing "official" about a bill of sale. A bill of sale can be scrawled on a napkin in crayon. Al the DMV cares about is that title, and I don't blame them. That's why I keep mine in a fireproof safe (not the gunsafe). |
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Yeah I remember those days of shitty service at California DMV's as well. Glad here in Las Vegas that we have nothing but strippers to look at. OMG to get our CCW permits or work cards for casinos they make us sit at the fingerprint bureau with all these umm "dancers" walking in and waiting along side us cause they need to be fingerprinted and blood tested before they can "dance". Almost makes me wanna break out some 1's. But yeah California DMV sucks.
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Those bastages made me take my driver's test (for cars) when I went in to get my motorcycle endorsement. Took 2 tests for the price of 1. How the holy F*CK do I know what the minimum sentance is if I evade arrest and cause a death as a result. I'm sure so many laws had changed since I was 16 (the last time I actually took a driver's test), that I was sure I would fail. As it turned out, most of the questions were common sense, so I passed both tests. But they did put quite a few like the one I mentioned above, as well as the standard blood alcohol level questions. While we're at it, why don't we just print the tests in English and publish bus schedules in every other language? I mean, what is the criteria for a foreign language getting printed as a DMV test? Does CA have one for every written language out there? I mean, if I were only literate in ancient Summarian, then I'd be gravely offended they don't have a test in my language, right? Also, guess who has to pay for getting all those tests revised and printed everytime they change the questions? Proof-readers and translators for all those languages can't be cheap... Anyways, I'm done complaining. tk |
Many of your fellow California motorists are not very proficient in written English. Do you want them to get licenses or just drive without them? |
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I've only been to the DMV once in the last ten years. I've renewed registrations online since they started, and via mail before that. The one time I had to go in was to get my personalized plates. I had an appointment, but still had to wait about 20 minutes due to the other people with appointments before me had language barriers. When I got to go to the counter the woman looked at my plates and asked me what "RKBA" stood for. So I went on to explain what it stood for, and explained about the 2nd Ammendment and how politicians are contantly trying to take our rights and throw them away (okay, I preached a bit). Her reply:
I could barely believe my ears. This was a mid 40's white woman that told me she moved to California years before from somewhere in the midwest. I'm never going back, unless they refuse to renew my license by mail. |