If you’ve been following our learning to ride section you’ll know that I took my Basic Rider Course with New York’s Motorcycle Safety School back at the end of March. You’ll also know that my expectation at the time was to get my test waiver immediately upon completing the three-day course.

After completing the course we were told to expect to wait 3-4 weeks but “it usually arrives sooner.” Further calls with MSS responded with a 4-5 week wait then a 6-8 week wait (where I stand now).

Finally, I have an update, but still no guarantee of a date in the form of MSS’s email below:

We recently received an update from the NYS DMV on the status of Basic RiderCourse road test waivers. The DMV informed us that road test waivers for the BRC will be mailed out this week in the order of course dates, beginning with the first course of the season and moving forward.

Please be advised that because this is a new process, we do not know what the mail with the road test waiver will look like. Therefore students will need to carefully review their mail to make sure they do not discard the waiver.

Thanks for your ongoing patience with the DMV/MSF transition.

I have to say at this point that I still feel that the guys at MSS did a fantastic job with the actual training but feel thoroughly misled on how long this process was going to take, even taking in to account the fact that they are in the process of a red-tape transition here. Course instructors skirted the issue of how long this was going to take, only stating 3-4 weeks once our group had completed the course.

Of further interest is that when I called the DMV a couple of weeks back their representative seemed to think that the DMV had “nothing to do with” the test waiver and that it was issued by the MSF. Curious indeed.

Hopefully if you’re signed up to take the course in the next few weeks you won’t have anywhere near as long to wait now that New York State DMV considers the 2009 riding season to be official open.

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