Question for the US people...

[deathpixie]

And this one actually relates to my job. *grins*

I have an American guy, from Texas, claiming he didn't know he had to register his car. Now, AFAIK, registration is kind of universal, in developed countries at least, so is he trying it on?

Also, do you guys have a sticker on the windscreen of your cars that tells you when the registration is due to expire like we do? Because that's what my answer will be - you could have checked the registration sticker to find out if you were registered or not.

Edit: Thanks a bunch, guys - I reduced his costs as he never received notification, but refused to cancel the fines because he should have seen the rego sticker on his windscreen.

Comments

[ion-duck.livejournal.com]

The actual process for getting the sticker is hard though. You go down to the DMV, you fill in a form. Then you get in line. Then depending on what you want you go to one of two waiting rooms and fill out another form. THEN you get in one of two much longer lines. (One for first time licenses and regisistration and another for renewal/additional vehicles.) They take the form and enter it in the computer. Then they do the eye test and stuff. THEN they give you three more pieces of paper, tell you to go to a mechanic to get the car safety inspected. You give the form to the mechanic. He then looses them and you repeat the process. Then you loose them... but it doesn't matter the mechanic found his first one. (This won't happen till your second trip to the DMV no matter what.) Then you wait a week for paper work processing.

if you Austrailians do things similar to that, you're not as enlightened as I thought. Plus, I'm pretty sure that like the British, you drive on the wrong side of the street. Don't you know you could cause an accident? :0)

Uh, no.

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

You go to the DMV, they give you a form, you fill it out. You get stickers.

Then you go to the mechanic sometime during the next month, and they do the inspection RIGHT THERE, and you -never- leave them with the papers.

There's no eye test for ownership of a car, licensing and registration are seperate events, and most, if not all of it, is computerized.

VA does it all online now - I haven't had to go to the DMV once for my car. Dealership gave me plates, I do the re-registering online.

There is -no- "paper work processing" its all done right there in front of you.

Sheesh. Look, I know its -annoying-, but its not as bad as all that. Hell, its not a tenth as bad as you make it out to be.

[deathpixie]

Plus, I'm pretty sure that like the British, you drive on the wrong side of the street. Don't you know you could cause an accident? :0)

Hey, you're the silly country who had to prove how independent you were of Britain and switch sides. Don't blame us if you insist on driving on the wrong side of the road... *grins*

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[ion-duck.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing we don't do a lot of things different then the British. I mean come on, we're talking about a country that put a tax on TV.