1999 marked the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first automobile in Oregon.
Soon after its arrival, in 1905, Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) began a process for registering vehicles.
Later, in the 1930s, DMV began testing and licensing drivers.

Today in Oregon there are...

* About 4 million registered vehicles.
* Roughly 2.7 million licensed drivers.
 
DMV provides direct services to customers by...

* Serving over 13,000 customers every day through 64 local offices and 3 dealer processing centers around the state.
* Answering nearly 1.7 million customer phone calls per year.
* Providing more than 31,000 records per day to law enforcement agencies via the DMV database.
* Responding to more than 3 million record requests per year.
 
Driver-related Statistics
 
Each year, DMV…

* Monitors the driving privileges of about 2.7 million drivers.
* Issues more than 150,000 new drivers’ licenses, and renew nearly 550,000 more.
* Files nearly 160,000 accident reports.
* Verifies vehicle insurance information by random sampling vehicle owners.
* Reviews driver medical conditions and oversees re-exam testing on more than 13,000 drivers.
* Suspends driving privileges about 450,000 times (some drivers receive multiple suspensions).
* Enters more than 560,000 driver convictions to driving records.
* Conduct more than 400,000 knowledge and 110,000 skill tests.
 
Vehicle-related Statistics
 
Each year, DMV…


* Registers nearly 2 million vehicles.
* Issues more than 1.3 million titles.
* Issues more than 500,000 plates for vehicles. There are nearly 50 different types of vehicle plate designs, in addition to specialty, or custom, license plates.

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