The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Driver License Offices will reopen for regular business hours statewide on Monday, following the closure caused by the driver license system upgrade. Online services will also be available.
Over the Labor Day weekend, the Driver License Division began upgrading the DL system as part of its State-to-State (S2S) implementation plan. All offices closed on Friday, Sept. 1, and were scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 5. However, despite prior testing, a capacity issue caused by the upgrade overloaded the system and services became unavailable.
DPS personnel have worked around-the-clock to identify a variety of issues with the software and the amount of traffic brought on by this upgrade. Working with experts outside the department, DPS personnel addressed these issues in order to stabilize the system and slowly increase DL transactions each day. DL employees remained stationed at offices statewide to accommodate walk-in customers whenever possible throughout the week, and on Friday morning, select Mega Centers reopened in North Texas.
Officials say they understand the frustration the extended upgrade caused to those customers who had their appointments cancelled this week, and they apologized for the inconvenience.
DL offices will be extending hours in high-volume areas in order to accommodate rebooked appointments in the short-term. During this time, walk-in service will be very limited or unavailable at most locations as we work to serve those people who were impacted this week.