Current Events > Renewing your license is a fucking scam.

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Oh a magic date passes and then you can be pulled over for not paying money to get a new magic date. Or in this case I need to either drive 6 hours to my parents to get my new license or have my dad mail it and not be able to drive for some days.

*license plate not drivers license

Shouldve just had it mailed to your residence

They used to make you go in to renew it, at least now post Covid you can do it online

I get mad enough about the drivers license, then again about registering the car...the state needs $60 every 12 months for me to remind them I own my car?

Nevermind the two professional licenses I have to keep active, those are over $100 apiece every two years for the right to have my job, I guess

KTG2 posted...

I get mad enough about the drivers license, then again about registering it...the state needs $60 every 12 months for me to remind them I own my car?

Nevermind the two professional licenses I have to keep active, those are over $100 apiece every two years for the right to have my job, I guess

What 2 licenses do you have?

I have a PE and my workplace reimburses me for it

KTG2 posted...

I get mad enough about the drivers license, then again about registering the car...the state needs $60 every 12 months for me to remind them I own my car?

It's to pay for the roads that you drive on.

They actually need to make people take a test during the renewal process, so many shitty drivers on the road.

It's technically one pharmacy license and a separate pharmacy "registration" through the state, but I lump them together as one giant licensure pain in my ass.

I haven't had to renew since I started my newest job but it's coming up, I'll ask them about reimbursement. It's really less about the money and more about the annoyance for me, idk. I just don't like being bothered. Those renewals are definitely more important than my stupid car registration.

ellis123 posted...

It's to pay for the roads that you drive on.

Oh fuck off. It'd be one thing if they just took it out of paychecks. The license renewal system creates an enormous amount of bureaucracy and costs from licenses and worker salaries to process all that shit. Not to mention an excuse for cops to harass people.

LightHawKnight posted...

They actually need to make people take a test during the renewal process, so many shitty drivers on the road.

lol the last time this was suggested in a topic about this exact thing, it had people saying "That's not fair to the bad drivers like me, who would fail the test and not be able to drive anymore!"

Congratulations, numbnuts, you've identified the exact point

Doe posted...

*license plate not drivers license

Oh so the registration, not your driver's license?

That's super easy to take care of. They mail you the registration paperwork like 2 months ahead of time. Just go online and pay it, then it gets mailed to you. If you're waiting until right before it expires, then that's on you.

And they make you renew that so that they can attempt to keep track of where the registered owner lives. I used to do office work at CHP and there were a surprising number of hit and run drivers that had registration that was never updated to their new address (so officers couldn't find the driver)

Same thing with your driver's license really. Keep the address up to date or it's a ticket.

I drove for months on expired plates one time. Just gotta keep an eye out for the pigs when you're driving

NoxObscuras posted...

That's super easy to take care of. They mail you the registration paperwork like 2 months ahead of time. Just go online and pay it, then it gets mailed to you. If you're waiting until right before it expires, then that's on you.

You didn't even read the OP so STFU

Doe posted...

Oh fuck off. It'd be one thing if they just took it out of paychecks. The license renewal system creates an enormous amount of bureaucracy and costs from licenses and worker salaries to process all that shit. Not to mention an excuse for cops to harass people.

That isn't how it works. At all. The more roads are used the more they have to spend on them. The only way to do this is to tax based on # of drivers and type of car. Otherwise someone who has a "stay at home" job could be taxed for the sake of road upkeep.

And the act of the government creating "unnecessary" jobs is irrelevant. Unless capitalism is overthrown, or whatever, both that at the complaint about the police is merely conflating two issues.

KTG2 posted...

I get mad enough about the drivers license, then again about registering the car...the state needs $60 every 12 months for me to remind them I own my car?

Nevermind the two professional licenses I have to keep active, those are over $100 apiece every two years for the right to have my job, I guess

Try $200 every 12 months. #California

Doe posted...

Oh a magic date passes and then you can be pulled over for not paying money to get a new magic date. Or in this case I need to either drive 6 hours to my parents to get my new license or have my dad mail it and not be able to drive for some days.

*license plate not drivers license

my state (OH) lets me do registration renewal by mail

Wait, license plates expire? Is that only in certain states? Because this is the first Ive heard of that.

Also, why do you have to drive to your parents house to do that?

Doe posted...

You didn't even read the OP so STFU

I did read it. You ended the OP with that correction, so I assumed you were correcting the title to say "renewing your license plate is a fucking scam" which would mean that whole rant is about your registration.

I'm assuming your parents are the registered owners, so that's why the paperwork goes to them, but you can take care of it online, so there you go, next year you don't have to make a 6 hour drive to take care of it

Everything is about money this is what we have devolved into

I pay 30 bucks a year and can do it online for two years at a time. A few months ahead of time I get a piece of mail saying it's going to expire. I go online to the DMV website, renew it, and print out the new form. We don't have registration stickers or anything anymore in the state. Couldn't be easier.

Is it a scam? I dunno. I don't like paying for it though.

Deedice posted...

Try $200 every 12 months. #California

It gets worse if your car is new. My renewal costs $414. Just got my tags in the mail. They don't expire until mid June, but why wait, you know.

rexcrk posted...

Wait, license plates expire? Is that only in certain states? Because this is the first Ive heard of that.

Also, why do you have to drive to your parents house to do that?

In my state (California) there are two stickers on your rear plate, one for the month your car was originally registered and one for the year that is currently paid for. The month sticker always stays the same, but every year you have to pay for the sticker for the following year. So paying this year will get you a 2024 sticker to replace your 2023 one

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