From: dpope1 (dpope1@utk.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 04 2003 - 09:49:59 PST
Here in TN, we don't HAVE a DMV... The County Court Clerk is where you go to
register your car.... The more horror stories I see like this, the better I
think our arrangement is... I know people that have registered cars that
haven't run in YEARS.... In and out the door in 5 minutes, up to 30 or so with
a long line.
Dave
>===== Original Message From David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net> =====
>All that you can really do is write letters to your representatives and
>tell they need to fix that stuff or you are going to vote against them. A
>couple of letters to the editors of the newpaper wouldn't hurt either. If
>a representative gets 20-30 similar letters, that might make some changes
>occur.
>
>I know that in Ohio, they had a situation where the owners of the BMV
>parlors (privately owned) were granted these businesses as personal favors
>as part of the political process. It was bad. I don't know if it is still
>that way there or not. I'm now in Indiana and the process is much
>different and they are a little more customer friendly but cash strapped
>which causes service problems.
>
>Dave
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:06:33 -0500, Fred H. Schlesinger
><fred@schlesingers.net> wrote:
>
>> Since many seems to have more than a passing interest into the
>> functioning of
>> the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles, I have put my observations and
>> experiences in the form of a post. Those who do not, this would be an
>> appropriate place to hit the ole delete key.
>>
>> When you go to the DMV up here, the window clerks barely speak English
>> and they
>> are the most fluent.
>>
>> The ten step drill, apparently from the DMV manual is:
>>
>> Step 1: Fill in this stuff and stand in line for a half hour.
>>
>> Step 2: Get to the window. They gave you the wrong stuff. Fill this
>> stuff in
>> instead and come back.
>>
>> Step 3: Stand in line again give the forms in and sit down.
>>
>> Steps 4-9: and wait...
>>
>> Step 10: 2 hours later (no exaggeration) pay your money and take your
>> stuff. Go
>> home and drive your car.
>>
>> The Scene:
>>
>> The DMV has several hundred people waiting. Hard plastic chairs,
>> overpriced
>> vending machines, dirty bathrooms, and if you are lucky, the guy next to
>> you
>> took a shower this week. Overhead is a very impressive machine that, for
>> your
>> viewing enjoyment, gives you commercial plugs and news on a ratio of 3 to
>> one.
>>
>> Staffing:
>>
>> There is one intake clerk, one person giving out tags and taking
>> pictures, and
>> two or sometimes three people typing. And of course, everyone is having
>> a fine
>> conversation instead of working. In Spanish, of course.
>>
>> And if you hit lunch break, one on the line and one typing. And eating
>> at her
>> station.
>>
>> The person handing out the tags does nothing because the tags are
>> accumulated
>> until they have ten or twenty of them. During that time the person
>> stands at
>> her window and stares at the hundreds of unhappy customers, the great
>> unwashed,(literally, see above) eagerly awaiting their tin trinkets and
>> picture-impregnated plastic.
>>
>> Special Rules for Drivers Licenses:
>>
>> The action is pretty much the same, except that you have to bring in
>> three
>> separate official documents to prove who you are every time you get a
>> license.
>> Your old drivers license means little or nothing to them. You need a
>> combination of birth certificate, marriage license, Passport, voter
>> registration, social security, company or other picture id. No
>> terrorists going
>> to fool them, no sir. Except the same fine public servants who take two
>> hours
>> to issue a set of tags are making the judgment.
>>
>> Welcome to the privatized DMV in Newark, Wayne, Morristown, they are all
>> the
>> same.
>> And the Trenton DMV is a special treat. They have a 20 minute line just
>> to get
>> the stuff to fill in before you get to step one. Otherwise, the same.
>>
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
>--
>Dave
>
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