driving license???
#31
Re: driving license???
Maybe I'm over confident. We'll see tomorrow.
#32
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Re: driving license???
Be interested to see how you get on - just waiting for my SSN. Which of the wonderful DMV centers in LA did you choose in the end?
#38
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I think a family or even a couple might fit in better but I ended up coming coming solo in the end, though it had not been the idea originally. So.....on the whole the Jury is still out.
#39
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I got all my family International Driving Licenses from the AA, you can use this for 12 months in the country you are moving to. When or if you are stopped produce it and the Police just laugh! But, it is important to take the test sooner than later, as its a form of ID as well. You will do a test on a computer, then you can either do the driving there or then or you can arrange to come back another day. Before the test l went around the carpark at the center and practised parrallel parking. On the day the state trooper took me around a nice neihbourhood and back!!! call this a test.. anyway, l passed. Good Luck.. you cant live in USA without driving it will drive you mad!!!!!
#41
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not really, it's a translated permit, not a license, and once you become a resident of the state your in, you've got to get the local license in the length of time the state requires...
#42
Re: driving license???
Apparently not too many New Jerseyites have been taught how to drive (swerving from lane to lane, never using turn signals, tailgating, jumping red lights, speeding, driving at 5pm on the freeway) so you'd probably fit in well there.
Practice in a parking lot. Just remember to have a big Starbucks in one hand, a cigarette in the other and your mobile phone clamped under one ear.
Practice in a parking lot. Just remember to have a big Starbucks in one hand, a cigarette in the other and your mobile phone clamped under one ear.
#44
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Strange... did they look outside before they did the questions?? Not exactly a high risk to come across considering it rains 3 days a year. Well good thing I've driven in London I know everything there is to know about slippery roads
Anyhow, Tony, I went to Glendale because it is around the corner from work. Now it is 2 weeks wait until the driving test. )
#45
Re: driving license???
I got all my family International Driving Licenses from the AA, you can use this for 12 months in the country you are moving to. When or if you are stopped produce it and the Police just laugh! But, it is important to take the test sooner than later, as its a form of ID as well. You will do a test on a computer, then you can either do the driving there or then or you can arrange to come back another day. Before the test l went around the carpark at the center and practised parrallel parking. On the day the state trooper took me around a nice neihbourhood and back!!! call this a test.. anyway, l passed. Good Luck.. you cant live in USA without driving it will drive you mad!!!!!
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Oh, and you CANNOT use the International Drivers License for 12 months unless your particular state allows it. And even then, it's your foreign license that they allow, not the worthless IDL. Many states only allow you to drive for 30 days on a foreign license. Others allow 3, 6, or 12 months, or require that you get a state license once you "become resident in the state".
Last edited by dbj1000; Oct 13th 2007 at 5:46 am.