(01-01-2024, 06:23 PM)leilanidude Wrote: * Transferring my license from Alaska to Hawaii- took 5 hours including the hour they forced us all outside and locked the door to go to lunch. The written test was old school pencil and paper, and one of their answers was wrong. I was so adamant about it I discussed it with the lady and she admitted that they knew their answer key was incorrect for that question, but they weren't allowed to change it. The written test was a copy of a copy of a copy like so many times it wasn't very legible, obviously a very old test. How many people had to retake the test and continue feeding the bureaucracy because of that wrong answer? Fortunately not me, because it was the only question I got "wrong".
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Describes the exact experience I had in 2009.
I also had the "we don't know the weight of your vehicle thing happen.It was a Honda CR-V. Like no one else on the island ever registered one? I think they only do this unknown weight thing to new folks just moving here.
This happened to me just a few months ago so nothing to do about just moving here. Though the car was shipped from Oahu so I guess it was new here.
In the application for registration, there is a place to enter vehicle weight, and I put the vehicle weight in there from the VIN decoding. They had the weight. They could have decoded it themselves to verify it. They didn't want to. They wanted me to tow my car back and forth from the weigh station for the same reasons they didn't want to correct a decades-old incorrect answer key: Brainless bureaucracy isn't allowed to budge no matter how hard it's being poked by common sense.
At least they gave me a "hall pass" so I could return the same day and not have to make another appointment for 30ish days in the future.
Looking back, I guess I'm fortunate they didn't demand to see two receipts from the towing company to get the car weighed to avoid a couple of extra fines.