Nowadays, mentioning an upcoming trip to the DMV is likely to be met with a look of pity, on par with a looming root canal or wisdom tooth operation. However, unlike an optional trip to the dentist, more than 214 million registered drivers are legally obliged to attend their local DMV centers to remain lawful drivers, and for many, the process at DMVs has become a nightmare.
Common grievances include long wait times, disorganized queuing systems, poor facilities, and unfriendly and incompetent staff.
With users describing the DMV experience as ‘draconian’, a ‘bureaucratic maze’, and a ‘broken system’, it is obvious that something needs to be done. In other public service industries in the U.S. and beyond, organizations have turned to technology to streamline the process, allowing users to undertake processes online, book appointments, and assess what time is best to visit.
In a recent article, Richard Medina, argues that the three main problems for DMVs relate to outdated ‘legacy’ technology, staffing, and a lack of outreach which are reducing efficiency and combine to create a time-consuming and frustrating overall user experience.
What’s notable about the DMV visit is that people across the U.S. think it’s one of the most miserable customer experiences they’ve encountered.
Even Disney in the animated movie Zootopia has a scene that will resonate with anyone who has ever waited to renew a driver’s license. “Are you saying that because he is a sloth, he can’t be fast?”
Lessons for the DMVs
So what lessons can the DMVs learn from public service centers across the world?
- The waiting game – a nationwide issue
- Service Inefficiency- frustrating renewal lines, bureaucratic mix-ups, and terrible employee morale.
- Uncertain long waits- Overworked and understaffed DMV centers
- Customer dissatisfaction- no proper mechanism for measuring customer satisfaction levels
- Perceived waiting times are 20% more than actual waiting time
The sad reality is that there is no ‘magic wand’ response to the DMV problem. Improving efficiency and the overall staff and customer experience would involve a total rehaul of the customer journey in DMV offices.
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Automation at work. I guess you see my point. It’s time to take these sorts of steps to make the customer journey more streamlined and fast!
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