DMV to extend hours at 42 offices across North Carolina

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published March 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM EDT

The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles is extending the hours of 42 offices across the state.

State officials say the expansion is driven by North Carolina’s growing population.

With this change, 92 of North Carolina’s 115 DMV offices will open at 7 a.m. Starting April 7, new early hours will take effect at locations in Boone, Elkin, Jefferson, Mocksville, Mount Airy, Thomasville, Wilkesboro, and Yadkinville. Offices in larger Triad cities already offer extended service hours.

This may be a good time for residents with older IDs to visit the DMV. Starting next month, the federal Transportation Security Administration will require REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses to board federally regulated domestic flights.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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