OMG!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

Suckhow · Post by **Suckhow** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:32 am

I just checked the DPS website expecting the usual "Processing Application" as it has been since the dead of winter. To my surprise, it said: "Application Completed - license issued or certificate active"!!!

It's only been 107 days since I sent in my application :? :? :?

I'm guessing that with my luck USPS will lose my CHL in the mail, and I'll have to go through another one-hundred some-odd day process to get a duplicate.

Kalrog · Post by **Kalrog** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:17 am

Call them again to make sure they have actually sent it. Trust me on this one... it is the voice of experience talking.

Suckhow · Post by **Suckhow** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:45 am

Kalrog wrote:Call them again to make sure they have actually sent it. Trust me on this one... it is the voice of experience talking.

What happened? Did yours not actually get sent after the website said is was active? What gives? I mean what if I get pulled over in the next few days, and the LEO's computer tells him I am a CHL holder, and he questions why I don't have my CHL on my person? I know its not a requirement if I'm not carrying, but I understand that its not a good idea to not present your CHL even if you are not carrying. What am I to do? Not drive?

onerifle · Post by **onerifle** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:57 am

Suckhow wrote:
Kalrog wrote:Call them again to make sure they have actually sent it. Trust me on this one... it is the voice of experience talking.
What am I to do? Not drive?

Don't speed...

Suckhow · Post by **Suckhow** » Tue May 03, 2005 12:57 pm

onerifle wrote: Don't speed...

Sometimes its hard to tell if I'm speeding because I can't see the speedometer clearly when I've been drinking.

Post by **Charles L. Cotton** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:01 pm

Kalrog is right, call them today. Tell them it's been 107 days, the DPS computer says the license has been issued, but you don't have it. Based upon my family's experience and information given to me by many people, Kalrog's recommendation is sound. You may be surprised to hear something to the effect that the physical license has not yet been created because they are waiting to get a certain number ready to order from the supplier/manufacturer. I would then politely remind them again that itâ€™s been 107 days.

Regards,
Chas.

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:32 pm

What's the url for the DPS site where you can check?

Suckhow · Post by **Suckhow** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:39 pm

jimlongley wrote:What's the url for the DPS site where you can check?

https://www.texasonline.state.tx.us/NAS ... AppManager

Braden · Post by **Braden** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:31 pm

Suckhow wrote:I mean what if I get pulled over in the next few days, and the LEO's computer tells him I am a CHL holder, and he questions why I don't have my CHL on my person? I know its not a requirement if I'm not carrying, but I understand that its not a good idea to not present your CHL even if you are not carrying. What am I to do? Not drive?

If you are not carrying then you do not have to present your CHL. If you do not have your CHL, then you should not be carrying so you have nothing to worry about.

Now...if you've made the decision to start carrying simply because the computer says your license is active....and THEN you get pulled over without a CHL to present to the officer......well, then you're in trouble.

ElGato · Post by **ElGato** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:58 pm

We all know that we don't have to show the CHL if we are not carrying, but there are still a few LEO's who don't and I still have students who are being told that they should have shown their license. Don't argue the point with them out there on the street, I had one student who did that in Galveston about a year ago, he was RIGHT, right up untill when he got arrested for resisting arrest.
Tom

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:21 pm

Thanks, I finall found the right place, of course now I can't find my pin... :(

Suckhow · Post by **Suckhow** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:55 pm

jimlongley wrote:Thanks, I finall found the right place, of course now I can't find my pin... :(

DPS sends it to you by US Mail.. typically about 4 to 6 weeks after you send in your application. If you have waited this long, and still don't have it, email them a request. DPS is usually very responsive and polite. I always recieved an email response in the same business day.

Kalrog · Post by **Kalrog** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:21 am

I actually got pulled over the day after my license went "active" on the internet but way before I received the physical license. My registration had expired - because the car had been sitting for a few months and I just got it working the previous weekend (and had already done the inspection). Well, I informed the officer that I have been approved for a CHL, but didn't have the physical license yet and was NOT carrying (all true). He was courteous and did run my DL (don't know what the result was on the CHL though) and didn't give me a ticket at all.

Just be honest and I doubt you will get in trouble. Although this was Williamson County - the conservative bastion just north of Moscow on the Colorado.

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:16 pm

Suckhow wrote:
jimlongley wrote:Thanks, I finall found the right place, of course now I can't find my pin... :(
DPS sends it to you by US Mail.. typically about 4 to 6 weeks after you send in your application. If you have waited this long, and still don't have it, email them a request. DPS is usually very responsive and polite. I always recieved an email response in the same business day.

Nah, I laid the paper with the pin aside and lost it. No biggie, I should have my renewal soon.

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:29 pm

When my wife and I were anxiously awaiting arrival of our CHLs I pulled a late tour at work and was driving home at about 2:00am when I passed through a drunk sweep.

Being wide awake and quite sober I saw something was going on as I approached, but my exit came up before I got into the middle of it, so I exited.

In my rearview I saw a car with its lights off begin to folllow me, and figuring it was a cop I kind of wondered what I had done to raise suspiscion, other than taking the exit right before the sweep that is.

The cop followed me for a while and then finally lit me up.

I handed him my license, registration, and insurance and was kind of giggling over his sticking his head almost all the way into the car to try to smell my breath. He asked me what I was doing there at that hour, and I told him driving home from work, and then he insisted on an explanation of why I worked at that hour, both of which I felt were intrusive, but he seemed to take it at face value and went back to his car to check up on me.

A couple of minutes later he was back and very brusquely asked me "Are you packing?" Now my first response, because I was thinking about a trip I was going to have to take in a couple of days, might have seemed smartass, but I really didn't realize what he was talking about so I said "Not tonight, I don't leave until Tuesday."

He then asked me a couple of different ways until I finally understood that he wanted to know if I was carrying concealed, was I strapped up, etc...

When I finally did catch on, I told him that, no I did not have a CHL. He responded by saying that their records indicated that I did. I told him that I had applied but hadn't received it yet.

It arrived in the mail the next day.

All he did was give me a warning for license plate lights being out.