Posted on 04/08/2020 12:04:18 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
Some Californians trying to renew driver licenses and car registrations online say the Department of Motor Vehicles is shutting them out, an NBC4 I-Team investigation has found.
Two weeks ago, the DMV closed its 176 field offices across the state to the public, in the wake of an I-Team report that those often crowded offices might be breeding grounds for the coronavirus. An internal memo obtained by the I-Team says there have now been 15 cases of COVID-19 in the DMV.
At the time, the DMV promised to expand its "virtual field office" so people could renew licenses and registrations from their homes.
With both driver’s licenses and vehicle registration being much-needed services, customers like Rob Baker are navigating a website that is not fulfilling their online requests. And while Baker and others like him are being left in the dark about the fate of their license renewals, DMV employees are waiting to be trained to provide online services.
“They were wrong,” Rob Baker told the NBC4 I-Team after he tried to renew his soon-to-expire license but couldn't. “I feel like I was lied to actually.”
Baker says under DMV rules, he should've been able to renew his license because he had a clean driving record for years. But when he tried to renew on the "virtual field office," he was met with a screen that read, “You are not eligible for internet renewal.”
“They didn’t really do anything to their website other than put up a new front door,” he said. “They didn’t remodel anything inside.”
On the DMV’s Facebook page, customers are posting similar complaints.
“Can’t renew licenses online yet,” a user wrote. “This is insane … does anyone maintain this site,” another commented.
DMV employees at five offices have told NBC4 they were supposed to receive training to process online transactions, but haven't yet.
“We’re not doing virtual transactions,” one employee texted the I-Team. “We still aren’t set up to do them.”
Baker is worried about not having a current driver license, because he's out of work and might be applying for benefits which often requires a valid ID.
“You never know when you’re going to need one,” he said.
The I-Team reached out to the DMV for an interview about possible glitches with its virtual field office, but the department did not immediately respond to the request.
Everyone knows things are not operating normally.....so they should lower their expectations of how things should be during these times....and after this passes as well. There’s going to be wait times, lines, out of stock, delays etc. with pretty much everything.
They should just wait:
In the not too distant future, they will be required to have RFID nano chips injected that will contain much more information than their name address and their driver classification.
Oh, crap! I’ve gotta renew in a couple of months.
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Over My dead body is the only way that they will “tag” Me !!!!!
And the War goes hot...
I just went online here in Chambers County, AL, logged in, paid my fees for my cars, and mine were here within five days. But, we’re a fairly rural county, without all of the red tape and confusion a city like LA would have.
I will him a funeral dirge for you.
I think everyone in Alabama would agree with you that the automation process (online) is working, and every year...it gets better.
If anything, I’d like to suggest that licenses be a 10-year thing for renewal, until you hit age 65.
Motor-Voter couldn’t have helped.
Lol, thanks, I have a feeling I’m going to need one. No way I can do without a car.
After dealing with CA and OR, I was shocked how easy MN and AZ was.
AZ was almost a pleasure to deal with.
Yes, except the government promised them that they would be able to use an alternate system... which doesn’t work.
Fun fact: Texas’s vehicle titling and registration system is quick, easy and convenient. You can get a duplicate title at any title office in the state in under 15 minutes, you can renew your registration online and get your sticker through the mail, etc. If you go to a tax office to renew in person, it takes less than ten minutes and your sticker is created on the spot. Very fast, very reliable.
And it was a system that California rejected because it was “too labor saving”.
Basically if you're 65 or older, you don't need a license for general outdoor sporting activity. I renew my angling license annually, and get a spiffy hard card in the mail, like a credit card. What I didn't know was that if you go to any renewal office, you can take your DD-214's with you, and if they show Honorable or General With Honorable Status, you can get that added to your state DL. Same if you complete a boating course for your marine pilot's license.
Tennessee’s governor waived emissions testing and registration renewals until the middle of May.
And you can bet they will be writing tickets and impounding cars anyway. While insurance companies will be dropping folks left and right because the state computer system sent them a notice. The sending and dropping is all automatic system to system and computers have no compassion or appeal process.
Yes, Texas vehicle titling and registration system is better.
Imagine this as our national medical/health care system. This is why government health care is terrifying.
I went to the DMV twice in February to get the ‘Real ID’
It took just under 2 hours each time. You could not make appointments then as they were all booked. I ran into a guy who booked one last Sept for a Feb date and he was still in line after I left the 1st time.
If the offices are open you need to bring the county Birth certificate as they will not accept the one your parents got.
I had to get mine from Minnesota and then have it notarized here in California and that guy just asked me for my driver license as proof whereas the DMV rejected that.... arrrgh!!
Meanwhile illegals are given licenses like confetti with no proof of who they are.
Hate to be a negative Nellie, but if the progressives can keep these virus restrictions going, they’re going to use it to claim people can’t get an ID to vote with. Not just California, of course.
In the not too distant future, they will be required to have RFID nano chips injected that will contain much more information than their name address and their driver classification.
Watch Bill Mitchell (never heard of him til today) interview Dr. Shiva about this virus, and forced vaccines for EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, with the little quantum identifiers in them, a plan of Bill Gates, who’s connected to Fauci, Birx, Clinton Foundation, WHO, SOROS, and Zuckerbergs Foundation. If what he says doesn’t drive people to their knees in prayer, nothing will.
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