Comments on: Washington Driver License Numbers Decoded

By: Jack Brown

Jack Brown — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:46:43 +0000

What are the little numbers on the side of the photo?

By: tacker

tacker — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:53:04 +0000

Here’s my driver’s license number TACKEMJ162RJ. I’m going through it and I cant seem to figure out how to come up with 2 for the X – Checksum.

By: GaryPaulson

GaryPaulson — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:26:22 +0000

@Terri, I have not seen anything that shows any pattern to the Oregon licenses.

By: Terri Thompson

Terri Thompson — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:18:39 +0000

Finally after 30 years I now understand what the 6kp stands for in my own license. Thank you.

Is there a simular version for Oregon's Drivers Licenses?

By: GaryPaulson

GaryPaulson — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:20:36 +0000

@Anonymous Coward – I have seen books at my local Bank of America that have samples of every state’s drivers licenses.

@Travis – 10 mod 10 is 0 – since 10/10 leaves a remainder of 0.

@Jacob – you won’t be able to tell where the error is. My comment to @Happy was to find the error in my calculations, not his number.

By: jacob

jacob — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:58:24 +0000

If you have a one-letter error, how can you detect it using the check digit that you found?

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:23:37 +0000

What happens when you have a check digit of 10? 0 mod 10 would be 10 correct?

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:09:08 +0000

Do you know of any publications detailing the format of licenses in other states?

I'm sure it would be easy to decipher if one could obtain a large collection of driver's licenses and personal info.

By: GaryPaulson

GaryPaulson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:01:25 +0000

If you provide the license number I can see where the error is. I don’t know why it would not come up with the correct checksum.

By: Happy

Happy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:13 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It helped me finalize some documents. The Checksum did not work however, (it added up to be a 9, but was issued as a 7) but I was able to get close enough to guess and verify DL status to see that it was right.