$205.00 to renew my drivers license! [View All]

[A HERETIC I AM]

Two hundred and five bucks! I haven't had a ticket in over 8 years and haven't had an accident in over 1.6 million miles of driving.

OK, I have a Class "A" CDL with a Hazardous Materials endorsement and that is the primary reason, but damn! I wasn't expecting that much.

$75 to renew the CDL, $90 for the FBI background check (which I just had about 18 months ago when I re-upped my Haz-Mat) and $10 each for my endorsements which are Doubles/Triple trailers, Tankers and the Haz-Mat.

Oh yeah...I failed the Haz-Mat test and had to take it again and that was another $10.00 The biggest pain about the Haz-Mat in Florida is about 1 in 20 of the state offices handling Drivers Licenses deal with that endorsement so it was a long drive to the nearest office.

Later in the day I went and applied for a TWIC card (of which there are only about 10 offices in the whole state!) and THAT was another $132.50!

Damned expensive day for a couple of ID's