I've been out of Texas for a few months and just realized that my drivers license expired 2 weeks ago.
Anyone know what happens if I am stopped on my way back home to Texas.
WILL MY VEHICLE BE IMPOUNDED OR WILL I JUST GET A SUMMONS.
On the road, I will be traveling through TN, AR, and TX

Most states you can just go online to renew a license. You then print it off or save it and your new license will be mailed.

It all depends on your attitude when you get stopped.
I get stopped more than your average driver but get very few tickets out of those stops, I am always cordial and conversational with the officers.
Your attitude is everything.

I renewed in California online from Germany.

I had to wait until it expired before it would let me renew. I am not sure if that was a glitch in the system or if I didn't understand what was going on.

Either way, shouldn't be any reason you couldn't do it online.

You are usually eligible to renew online once before having to renew in person. Simply go to the Tx Dept of PUblic Safety website and follow the prompts. Once renewed you'll get a receipt which, along with your expired license, will verify that you are current.

Based on my age, Texas requires that I apply for my renewal in person. I already checked the on-line renewal, but it would only allow me to get a 60 day license.
Since I am working for the Army in Alabama, I plan to go back in 2 or 3 weeks to get my renewal.
Was just wondering if I was at very high risk while driving there.

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Was just wondering if I was at very high risk while driving there.

Depends on who stops you.

I always let people side a couple of months.

Just get them a warning.

But I was a nice guy.

You are overthinking it. You have a good excuse I think. Just drive home within the traffic law. Reduce or eliminate the likelihood of being pulled over. In the unlikely event that you are pulled over, do as others have already suggested with regards to being cooperative, friendly, and respectful.

Aa you drive home, drive real fast. You'll get there faster so less chance of getting stop...

I'd get the 60 day temp license.
maybe a pain but it's less painful than a return trip to the state you get cited in.

especially when your caught up in someone else's stupidity [or hit a deer] and you then have a problem as well as a problem in texas too.

You can still hunt American Big Game with an expired driver's license.

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Based on my age, Texas requires that I apply for my renewal in person.

Just one more good reason not to get old, a mistake I have made myself.

Texas DPS officers are (typically) reasonable and courteous. They are much more concerned with safety and serious crime than with hassling people over technicalities. About the least concerning thing to them is a driver with a license which is a few weeks expired. Assuming you otherwise have a clean record and the infraction for which you were stopped was not flagrant (or perhaps there was no infraction but you were unlucky enough to get in the way of a 90 year-old lady who wanted to turn left from the right-hand lane), a patrolman would rarely delay you, and probably not even give you a warning for the expired license, but simple tell you to be sure to get it renewed right away.

When they stop you while doing 93 in a 75 mph zone tell them you were hurrying back to Texas to get your license renewed.
Might be a fun conversation starter.....

If you are not licensed in Texas you are not licensed in any state, and I would think that not only would you receive a ticket in the state in which you are stopped, but also, you would be prevented from continuing to drive home without a license.

Not worth it because your auto insurance rates will go up.

Take a bus, train, or plane home, get your license, and take a bus, train, or plane back to your work!

Just tell them that you are an ILLEGAL ALIEN and a democrat will give you a new one on the spot !

Hip

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Originally posted by lindy2:
If you are not licensed in Texas you are not licensed in any state, and I would think that not only would you receive a ticket in the state in which you are stopped, but also, you would be prevented from continuing to drive home without a license.

Not worth it because your auto insurance rates will go up.

Take a bus, train, or plane home, get your license, and take a bus, train, or plane back to your work!

Total and absolute Bullshit.

Gee, take a chance and treat it as a midlife crisis adventure
In My Dads words “ nobody’s gonna rip your head off “
Later in years, who remembers uneventful rides? But we all get chuckles from getting pulled over, breaking down and etc