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New DL requirements in Rosarito!

Dave - 1-17-2006 at 04:22 PM

The Rosarito DMV is now requiring a physical exam when renewing your DL.

I am happy to report that I am in excellent health!



Questions:


What is your age?

Blood type?

Have you had surgery in the last six months?

Can you read, (pointing to a LARGE eye chart on the wall less than four feet from my chair) line six?

Are you sick? (I lied ;) )

Do you have 80 pesos?

congratulations

sylens - 1-17-2006 at 06:47 PM

on passing the driving test. sounds like it was a bear. you must have studied for weeks. how much will you charge to send me your answer sheet?:coolup:

is that in pesos or dolares?:cool:

bajaguy - 1-17-2006 at 08:14 PM

When you apply for/obtain your Baja California Norte drivers license, do you have to surrender your California license???

Dave - 1-18-2006 at 08:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajaguy
When you apply for/obtain your Baja California Norte drivers license, do you have to surrender your California license???


No, and the only reason to get a Mexican drivers license is if your car has Mexican plates. [Imported or purchased in Mexico.]

TEST? We don't need no stinking test

Dave - 1-18-2006 at 11:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by sylens
on passing the driving test. sounds like it was a bear. you must have studied for weeks.


The test was to open your wallet. If you could remove 424 pesos...You passed.

Is this also how......

Hook - 1-18-2006 at 12:20 PM

......the Rosarito Chief of Police decides which gringo's car he will be driving next?:lol:

Bob and Susan - 1-19-2006 at 04:59 AM

i need the answers to the eye chart...."it's a small world"....:lol:

The honor system

Dave - 1-19-2006 at 12:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bob and Susan
i need the answers to the eye chart...."it's a small world"....:lol:


Not to worry. I didn't actually have to read line six. The nurse just wanted to know if I could. :biggrin:

vandenberg - 1-19-2006 at 01:47 PM

Loreto

Several years ago, I took a friend to the police station to get a licence. Told him all he needed was 3 pictures and ( than ) 12 dollars. However the cop on duty said there was a written test now. The friend said he couldn't read spanish, upon which the cop grabbed the test out of his hand, sat behind a desk and completed it. Took a big stamp passed, held out his hand for the 12 bucks, gave the info to a typist and 10 minutes later my friend was the proud owner of a chauffeurs licence,which also allows him to drive trucks. Go figure !!

burro bob - 1-20-2006 at 11:18 AM

I got my Mexican drivers license about 3 months back. I also had to get a physical from a doctor. I went to the Red Cross, but the Doctor was not there. I was sent to his private office with a letter from the Red Cross for him to sign, saying I was healthy enough to drive. When we got to his office he asked me if I was healthy and I said I felt fine. He asked what my blod type was and I said I didn't know and he made a note on the paper that it was a secret.
At The office where we got the license everything went very smooth. The test was on a touch screen computer and the friend I had taken to translate for me knew everyone in the office. My friend read the questions and without doing any translating he picked the answers. I had to stop him once because I was pretty sure he had picked the wrong answer.
He only got a 74 on the test but it was good enough for me to pass.
In three more years I will return with someone else that is smart enough to get me a chauffeurs licence.
burro bob

David K - 1-20-2006 at 11:21 AM

That's funny Bob!

surfer jim - 1-21-2006 at 09:04 AM

This makes me feel more comfortable driving down the road when a big rig is approaching....:(




Disclaimer: If ANYBODY is MARRIED to a TRUCK DRIVER ....no insult is intended.;D

burro bob's secret blood type

oladulce - 1-21-2006 at 09:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by burro bob
He asked what my blod type was and I said I didn't know and he made a note on the paper that it was a secret.
burro bob


Pretty funny, rather than note "unknown" or "not available" the doctor would document that your blood type was a "secret" !

Could be he was preserving your Patient Confidentiality.

Dave - 1-21-2006 at 06:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by surfer jim
This makes me feel more comfortable driving down the road when a big rig is approaching....:(


I see someone bothered to connect the dots. ;)

I love to joke about stuff like this but:

If I didn't have to take a serious physical or pass a drivers test then neither did anyone else.

<Sure are a lot of crosses decorating the sides of the roads.>

Hook - 1-22-2006 at 08:07 PM

[Edited on 1-23-2006 by Hook]

Dave - 1-24-2006 at 07:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Braulio
The Rosarito office must be different than Mexicali


Imagine that! ;)