How long is your driver's license good for?

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I just got my first Arizona license, after being licensed in Illinios since 1986, and to my surprise it expires in thirty five years. I hope the picture is still accurate. Yeah. That would be cool to look 34 when I'm 79 đź‘Ť
 
Unless they pass a law against it, I should be set for life (Belgium btw). It doesn't surprise me that there are places where a license expires, but this is the first time that I really hear about it.

I don't think that it would be a bad idea if they gave people over a certain age another test. Just to revaluate their driving abilities. Might avoid a lot of accidents.
 
I don't have a license, but here in Wisconsin you get to keep have your license like 4 years before renewal, and then they send you like these lilttle silver stickers to stick on the side that most airline's, car rental services, and other public services won't accept. They think it is false and the license is expired. If you move they tell you to put this sticker with your new name and address on the back and public places don't take that either. The only way to get a new license is if your lucky or you say you lost yours, I guess.

I don't want to offend people, but in my opinion I think once you get above like 75 or 80 they should check your driving like every 2 years and renew your driving license after having a driving instructor check your driving skills. The old people lumber down the highway at 45 mph, the minimum speed limit, instead of the speed limit, 65.
 
You're kidding ... thirty five years? That's insane. I have to renew every four years. Frankly I have no issue with that, except that they don't require any updated driving tests. Licensing should be a full renewal process every two to four years. The rules change, the people change, and we're doing nothing to make sure everyone is fully capable of handling the new situations.
 
5 years! Ha! I get to go to the DMV 7 times as often as you.
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I think he said 35 years.

I just got my first Arizona license, after being licensed in Illinios since 1986, and to my surprise it expires in thirty five years. I hope the picture is still accurate. Yeah. That would be cool to look 34 when I'm 79 đź‘Ť
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Looks like your license expiring is common practice in quite a few US states?

What do you have to do when it expires? Take a test?
 
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Looks like your license expiring is common practice in the US?

What do you have to do when it expires? Take some test?
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Nah, just give them another $29 and they make you a new card. Pretty stupid if you ask me.

I think he said 35 years.
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See, it's called math. Klos has to renew 7 times as often because he has to renew every 5 years. 5 years X 7 times is 35 years, being the first time milefile renews.

Seven times as often.
 
I think your liscense is for life in the UK. I don't know of my mum renewing it and she has been driving for over 20 years.
Mine expires in 0 years, 0 months, 0 days. Because I don't have one yet :(
 
If they were re-testing it would be something. And the registration fee could go toward paying people to give the tests. I'm all for it. Create jobs, keep idiots off the road. Yeah!
 
Each state give a different amount of money to the DMV and then they will issue you a new sticker for the rear license plate of your car with the year. Each state has a different amount. I think the years that you need a new license plate or new drivers license you pay a little more and then they give you those things or stickers for those things. Here in Wisconsin you pay 40 dollars for a year sticker for your license plate if it is a general one, or it is like 80 dollars if you have it personalized, like you wrote a specific word or something on it. In other states it is more, like Minnesota is like 245 dollars or something.
 
The money goes for sure to fixing roads here in Wisconsin. Our roads don't have many holes or anything in them. Here we have Winter and Construction Season. If you live in Illinois or other states will toll roads, the money for that also supposedly goes to roads. Here in Wisconsin they want to put in tolls to fix our states debts. They also want to increase the yearly licensing fee. They hope tolls will make all the people that drive through here to go to Minnesota or Michigan or Iowa, from Illinois will help to pay for our roads, since we have so many.
 
Looks like in Florida its every 7 years. Mine was issued in 1999 (when I got my class D) and it expires in 2006. I do think 35 years is a bit much though. Maybe they are depending on you loosing, or breaking it.

29 bucks is also a lot for a new license, in Florida its only 10. Getting a new License Plate every year is what I think is a rip off. What is it like 40 bucks for just a sticker. Mine is more because I have a custom tag, but at least I know where the additional money is going. To the organization I chose.
 
My California licence expires every 5 years. đź‘Ž

However, to explain what ExigeExcel said, the UK licence isn't for life, but nearly as good as. Its issued the day you pass your test and then expires on your 70th birthday, (mine expires 4th July 2044) at which point you pass a medical and eye-test every 2 years to prove you're still safe and then you get a new licence.

It used to make me laugh when I first started coming to the US and renting cars, when they'd look at that large piece of green & pink paper that is a UK licence and try to figure out where the driver number and expiration date were! That, and when their computer system can't handle a long expiration date or driver number and they'd get all flummoxed! :)
 
Interesting to hear about the different state mandates.

Here in Colorado, my license is good for 10 years.
But I guess I need to look for a place in Wisconsin as new plates cost me $495 last year. That's because Colorado has a 'Personal Property Tax' that gets hooked onto your plate renewal fee.

Hey Eric, I know that there was some deal here in CO this week, that had the DMV's in certian counties clogged with customers. (Can't remember why.) But did something happen out there in AZ?
 
I don't have a license, but around here the first one you get is good for 2 years. From then on they all last 10.

Thirty-five years sounds amazing. People must age pretty well in Arizona if they can afford to make the gap that long.
 
Magic,
Florida Drivers Licenses are only good for 6 years. My next renewal is in 2008. I got mine renewed 2 years ago....and I did it via the Internet, too. :)

As for the plates, after renewing my dad's tag on the old pickup, I paid around $36 to get the sticker for the silly thing.
 
UK Driving licences have to be renewed every 10 years. I'm not sure if you have to pay anything but you certainly don't have to take any tests until, as Smallhorses stated, your 70th Birthday. I have to renew mine in 2011.
 
Here in Holland you have to renew your drivers license every 10 years and you have to pay €32 each time you wish to get a new one.
 
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I don't want to offend people, but in my opinion I think once you get above like 75 or 80 they should check your driving like every 2 years and renew your driving license after having a driving instructor check your driving skills.
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In Delaware our licenses are good for 4 years. And I think everybody should have to re-test every 4 years, regardless of age.
 
I don't have one. But my sisters expired the day she was going for her P's. She could of had her P's before that day if her instructor wasn't such a w****r.:grumpy:
 
In New Zealand they expire every ten years or something.
Mine expires on the fourth of June, 2013. :(
 

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