Vehicle and driver licence renewals

[RKS Computer Solutions]

o fo... sounds like fun? who can i pay to go and do my license then?

[stephanfx]

there is a company called Q4U, maybe they can help Riaan

[Graeme]

Queues

Everything back on track for MV Licences at Durban Hypermarket - short queue, staff member dedicated to MV Licences.

[Dave A]

Well at least insurance is not going to be a problem if you're struggling to renew your drivers licence.

Insurers won't punish drivers if they fail to renew their card licences
If you are trying to renew your driver's licence, you will have faced the long queues at your local traffic department as it struggles with the e-Natis computer system recently introduced by the department of transport.

If you fail to renew your card licence timeously, you may face a fine from the traffic police but one consolation is that any insurance claims you make with an expired card licence will not be turned down on the grounds that your licence has expired.

Brian Martin, the Ombudsman for Short-term Insurance, says the legal implications of failing to renew your card licence every five years are different from those that you will face if you have failed to convert the old driver's licence contained in your identity document to the newer card licence.
full story from Personal Finance here

[Dave A]

I got my drivers licence renewed in 55 minutes from time in the door to time out at Pinetown this morning. Apparently Rossburgh is not going so well.

Chatting there, apparently things are going better. When I asked the cashier about how eNatIS is going, he said "It's trying to cope."

[Mandy]

Vehicle Licencing

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[SilverNodashi]

I heard from someone that we won't be notified about license renewals anymore, can anyone confirm this?

[Dave A]

I heard from someone that we won't be notified about license renewals anymore, can anyone confirm this?

That would be a huge issue, I reckon. The difference between renewing a license when you've got the renewal form and when you haven't is an extra queue (at least).

Just another note on renewals - you can also do it at certain post offices. I've found the queues at our local post office to renew vehicle licenses an absolute pleasure - like virtually non-existent.

[Alta Murray]

Mmmm, what about me? I do wonder what it is going to take to get my credit card drivers license fixed? I was told to come and collect my license after 3 months, not to call as they are faced with a back-log, however when I went to collect, I was told that after 3 months the license is destroyed?! I was only doing what I was told to do, I contacted our local Metro Police offices, and was told to go to the local police station blah,blah.... and all I have gained to date is to be told that it was illegal for them to destroy my license. I do wonder if someone is in posession of my license.

I was also one of the first victims of the ID fraud scam, so when I went to renew my passport, I got one stating my surname was van der Heever, and I ended up with 2 legal passports. So off I went to the local police station, who then gave me a letter stating that I was in illegal possesion of two passports, and what was Internal Affairs reaction? That policeman he must not come tell me how to do my job, I don't tell him how to do his job. For an extra fee I could choose a surname, whatever surname I liked, but I refused to do so, I just wanted my own surname back at no extra fee. That was a wonderful day!

on my drivers license, I have given up!!! Metro Police has now assured me that I am on the system, however I don't have the credit card license to prove it. but I am on the system........

[Dave A]

Alta, that's a shocker. I know not having my drivers licence on me would be a big issue. No licence - no car hire when I'm travelling

Re-reading this thread, I think we need to differentiate between driver and vehicle licences

Was it notices for renewal of drivers licences you were talking about, SoftDux? As I said earlier, I certainly see an issue if they discontinue notices for vehicle licences.

[Yvonne]

Changes in vehicle ownership - I confirm that the licensing department are referring people back to the office where the vehicle was originally registered.

They will not even discuss trying to assist you, even if the original registration office is in another province.

Yvonne

[Dave A]

I'm sitting with one of those change of ownership forms in front of me.

1. (Seller and buyer fill appropriate parts)
2. The seller must sign off the registration certificate and hand it over to the buyer.
3. The seller must deliver this notice to the registering authority within 21 days...
4. The buyer must apply for registration of the motor vehicle to his appropriate registering authority...

So the yellow form must go to the authority where the vehicle is currently registered - so send it by registered post. That constitutes "delivery."

The buyer goes to his/her local registering authority.

[SilverNodashi]

Changes in vehicle ownership - I confirm that the licensing department are referring people back to the office where the vehicle was originally registered.

They will not even discuss trying to assist you, even if the original registration office is in another province.

Yvonne

Yvonne, I also see this behaviour a lot more these days, and not just from the licencing department. I almost get the feeling that the people who work there don't actually want to be there, and they'd rather show you away, then try and deliver the services that they're getting paid for. I used to be able to pay my traffic fines at any police station, but now I suddenly get told to goto the police station in the city where the fine was issued. Sometimes it's not possible at all, yet they "lazy bastards" blatantly tell you they won't help you.


P.S. I haven't had problems with re-registering a vechile in Bedfordview, in October even though the original registration was in Sandton. So, I do think it's a personal thing, and not a "company policy"

[Yvonne]

Perhaps a decision in that actual "Station"?, but surely they would not get away with it then, as people must be complaining!
It happened in Kempton Park, Bedfordview and Edenvale.
Perhaps it is a "new" decision.

Yvonne