"Virginia" had apparently pursued the question as far up the ranks of supervision as she could, and had finally received an answer. Her supervisor at the Department of Safety, main Nashville office, told her, "I don't know what it's for. I think it some sort of internal code used for tracking.... but tell the caller not to worry, it has nothing to do with him or his driving record."
So there you have it.... the official position of the Tennessee Department of Safety, as nearly on the record as I could get it, is a mind-numbing "I dunno."
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Clearly someone knows, or else the DD number wouldn't be on the license in the first place.
This is disheartening. Since no one in the DMV knows what its for means it was put there by the State, and likely they're doing it to meet some Federal mandate (otherwise someone in the DMV would have had some say as to what the code would represent, how it would be implemented, and where on the license it would be).
And I love their "don't worry, its not about your driving record" line. THAT is what is worrying! (Analogous to the "don't worry, its confidential" line the Census people gave - I don't care that they're not going to share the information; I don't want them to have it in the first place!) Info on your license should be for DRIVING, anything else is just police-state requirement.
Clearly someone knows, but the fact that the DMV has had no instruction on what it means or for what purpose it's going to be used strongly suggests that it has a nefarious Federal purpose.
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