The state Motor Vehicle Commission is facing a persistent challenge in its battle against document fraud: The demand for a fraudulently obtained driver's license has pushed the black-market price as high as $8,000. An MVC clerk in East Orange was part of an alleged scheme to sell a genuine state license for $5,000. In Lodi, an employee and fellow conspirator allegedly split $6,000. In Atlantic County, an undercover officer bought one for $7,800.
No way to run any business I was sitting in the Motor Vehicle Commission office in Wallington while reading MVC Chairman Raymond Martinez's defense of the agency ("Delivering services at MVC" , July 15).
If the state follows the recommendations of an outside auditor, Paterson could have its first state motor vehicle agency since 1995. It's a great inconvenience for Patersonians to have to go to Wayne to meet their motor vehicle needs," Mayor Joey Torres said. "Historically, at one time we had two of them in Paterson.
More than three dozen people - including six former Motor Vehicle Commission clerks - have been indicted in alleged schemes involving the black-market sale of New Jersey driver's licenses for as much as $7,000. State officials on Tuesday described "sophisticated" criminal rings that were operating at five motor-vehicle agencies -- including Lodi and North Bergen -- where employees played a key role in the alleged conspiracies.
The state Motor Vehicle Commission began work last March on its latest security improvement -- the new, tougher-to-counterfeit driver's license. The Enhanced Digital Driver's License, with its covert security features and more tamper-resistant material, does not look radically different from its predecessor. There's a slight color difference and a two-line format for the name instead of one line. On the back there's a black silhouette of the state and the MVC logo in gray. The bar code has shifted position slightly, is larger, and is designed to hold much more information.
If you visited a Motor Vehicle Commission office in the last 11 months, you might not have realized you were part of GMX -- the Great Monday Experiment. GMX had little to do with license or auto-registration renewal or any of the paperwork mysteries that make us crazy and keep bureaucrats busy. It was about saving money. If you believe government bureaucracies, especially motor vehicle agencies, take too much of our money, you should feel proud because GMX saved New Jersey $4 million.
When Bob Sebrowski pulled up to the Motor Vehicle Commission office in Oakland a few weeks ago to renew his license, he figured he had the crowd beat: He was an hour early and seventh in line. Three hours later, he left defeated and behind in his work.
THE Motor Vehicle Commission is perhaps the only agency in the state -- no, the country -- that doesn't need more money. Those three-hour waits in the boiling sun or driving rain have nothing to do with budget cutbacks, funding diversions or office closures, the chief administrator told a panel of surprised lawmakers on Thursday. The real culprit, Raymond Martinez said, is a 100-year flood of expiring driver's licenses, the result of a decision made in 2005 to extend renewal dates from four years to six. Now a projected 2 million licenses will need attention, instead of the 1.1 million in 2009. Nothing a fatter budget can fix.
With lines at Motor Vehicle Commission offices getting so long, temperatures hitting 100 degrees, and computers crashing at the most inopportune times, the man who heads this beleaguered operation has been making the rounds of his 39 branch offices to see if anyone has noticed the recent changes in agency hours. As Ray Martinez learned this week in the 14th of these visits - this time at the Burlington County office in Turnersville - they haven't. Either lines are still long, or in the case of tiny, uncrowded Turnersville on a rainy Monday, motorists were barely aware of any changes.
Responding to a Democratic call to investigate a computer crash that wrecked motor vehicle operations on Monday, the Christie administration slammed legislative critics Wednesday for eliminating $5.5 million in funding designed to modernize the state's aging information technology. Sometimes you have to wonder if Democrats understand their own actions," said Michael Drewniak, Governor Christie's chief spokesman.
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