Working with DMV a continuing challenge

This is no joke.

Being a senior citizen I try to go by the rules as I understand them. In the last month I tried to accomplish three items at the DMV and I could not get through the red tape without added trips.

Item One: I couldn't transfer a lady's vehicle to my corporation.

Item Two: A friend couldn't license a vehicle at Carson City DMV.

Item Three: I couldn't bring license up to date on a repair vehicle.

Read item numbers below:

Item One: I bought, and wanted to transfer a lady's vehicle to my company. The lady and I went to the Carson City DMV to transfer the title of her vehicle to my company. We filled out her title to my company and she signed in the proper places. At the window the clerk gets on the computer and then says she has to see her supervisor. She comes back and says that the vehicle had been stopped for smoking in Reno. I was aware of this situation but since I live 80 miles from Reno on 54 acres out of smog requirement area I thought I could buy the vehicle and maybe use it on the ranch - wrong. We were told the smoke problem would have to be corrected before it could be sold.

The lady had the vehicle worked on and took the vehicle into a smog station and got a passing smog certificate. We went directly to Reno DMV with paperwork to transfer the title. At the DMV window the person came back and said we had to take the vehicle to the little building on the side - emission station - to have it checked.

At the emission station a few minutes later with the car running outside his window, the gentleman at the desk said Joe will be out in a few minutes. Joe came out, the desk man stood out back of the vehicle, Joe revved up the engine I estimated over 5,000 rpm two times, and the man at the back said it is smoking. It won't pass. I said to the man we just had it pass your certified smog station. I asked Joe what RPM was that? Joe replied 2,500 rpm. I told the lady you just paid $500 for repair for nothing. My question is "Why do we have a smog station test and certificate?"

I took the title to a rural DMV the next day and changed the title with no problem. When I showed the smog certificate to the person, they said "We don't do smog here."

Item Two: I gave a man a pickup, he went to his insurance company in Carson City, got insurance, then to the Carson City DMV to change the title. I had signed the title in the proper location. The title had 3 names on it: my corporation (in DMV code), my name, and my wife's name. He was told my wife had to sign it. He said it was names "or" name. He was told it had to say "or". I checked several other older titles that we had registered as "or" and only one had it with "or" after the name. His wife also has to sign. He told them my wife had passed away. He could not get it done. I went with him to a rural DMV and got it done without a problem (without a death certificate).

Item Three: I had a vehicle with a bad engine and it took some time to locate that particular engine and replace it. I then went to a DMV to put current license tags on it. The vehicle was registered in my and my wife's name. Ah, ha, you are ahead of me aren't you? The person kept checking something on the computer for a long time then finally said to me that the second name did not have a driver's license and did not have insurance and since I had an "operator's policy," I could not license the vehicle unless I changed the title without the other name on it. (If a name is on a title, do they have to have a driver's license and insurance? My understanding was that the vehicle or the driver had to be liable.)

Samuel H. Dupuis is a Wellington resident.