It's even worse now
MVA sucks rocks. Episode 1024
- Thread starter Gilligan
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What a nice coincidence...so are my looks.It's even worse now
I had a bad experience with MVA when I first moved here. After registering a truck, got a nastygram from MVA that the VIN was incorrect as compared to the insurance info. Looked at the VIN on the truck, insurance card and the registration. Looks identical. Go to MVA to get it "fixed". Clerk looks at our documents, agrees, and we go on our way. A month later, get another nastyrgram, same thing. Now we're on the hook for fines and impound. Once again, go back to MVA in Waldork to fix it. Even took a pencil-rub of the VIN on the truck and brought it in. The comparisons were the same. Going round and round and round. Then I spotted the terminal the clerk was using, an IBM. Being a computer geek that had taken COBOL on an IBM 3070, I knew what was wrong. I asked if I could look at the clerk's screen. IBM terminals show a ZERO with a slash thru it. An O does not. On the terminal, they were different, but the printed version did not have a slash thru the zero and looked exactly like an O. When the info was originally put in, someone fat-fingered an O for a ZERO, and you could ONLY see the difference on an IBM terminal. All other outputs looked fine. Finally got it fixed.
Me too!
I couldn't begin to list the issues I went through with my "antique" vehicles that had the "short" VIN that preceded the Fed-mandated "long VIN". I was told by more than one nasty little clerk that my vehicle VIN was "incomplete" and couldn't be registered.
Was it Mrs. Rosenberg or something like that, "back in the day"? Going to MVA Waldorf back in the 70s was my father's favorite pastime.
Grumpy
Well-Known Member
Lost my MC license when the MVA screwed my license up back during covid. 1 cop and 2 MVA employees told me I was good for a year when the MVA extended license renewals due to covid and the Real ID thing. I finally get an appointment about 10 months into the extension and they tell me they couldn't renew my license because it was expired. I had to retake the written and driving test, and would have had to take MC training course and test. The MVA has always been a joke.
A more miserable lot of employees you will never find.
I know it not always the best of jobs, but people working there, most likely without advanced education, make pretty good money and great benefits.
If I were the OP, try to reach someone in upper management, explain the problem, ask for help correcting.
Maryland, ya'll.
black dog
Free America
I went through the same thing when I moved to Indiana for the second time.Wife is from Olympia, WA...moved here in early 2008. Held a Class AM license issued by WA. They had different requirements for two versus three-wheeled vehicles back then, and her WA license excluded three-wheelers.
When she converted to MD license in 2008, MVA clerk looked at her WA license and added - on her own volition - the "No Three Wheeled Vehicles" as a restriction on her new MD license. We laffed at that...since the clerk created that restriction out of thin air and her imagination. Whatever...wife has been riding on two wheels with her MC license since she was 16 and has never once ridden a 3-wheeler.
Fast forward to last week. She needs to renew her license and shows up with DoT physical etc. They hand her her new license (the paper version..you get the plastic one in mail later) and it's still an "AM" license, but some moron of a clerk had "corrected" her restriction to now be "Three Wheel Only". Apparently MD does now differentiate between two- and three-wheeled vehicles and some brain-dead state employee had to make her license "fit" in the new system the state implemented, apparently around 2015 or so (they claim...wife never previously noticed the mystery change to the restriction on her license)
Minor issue to correct, right? oh fawk no...wife went absolutely ballistic when the "supervisor" head bitch said her only recourse now is to pay the $500 for a motorcycle training course, and then take the written and riding skills tests.
My wife was a freaking adventure rider for a decade, racking up easily 10K miles in the mountains of US and Canada on her BMW Funduro. She's in her 60s now and is NOT really keen on trying the skills test on her radically-cammed Harley Dyna. Not to mention all the costs and hassle...
I think she's about ready to burn the place in Loveville to the ground, so if you have business with MVA there, better get it done soon.
I told mva and our governor's liason to eat my short fat one and I will never get the required schooling that they tell me I need.
I responded a few times that I took the maeyland mva test in 1975.
I'll ride dirty until I can't kick start my scooters any longer.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
Or have a dark tan