Motor Vehicle Inspection Bureau

I am giving the MVIB only 3 stars simply because after 2 hours of searching endlessly on the internet, I still had no clue as to how to go about getting my vehicle emissions tested and obtaining my Tennessee plates. Before you think I am some kind of raving idiot, let me explain that I have lived in 4 states, the other three of which compiled all the license and plate services in ONE building. ONE. Why you would go to two is beyond me, but whatever right?
After spending 4 hours obtaining my actual license, I took yet another day off work to get my plates and emissions tested. Like I said, I could find no info on how to do this– so for those of you who are as clueless as I was, here’s how it goes.
Find an emissions testing site, go here first. You will wait in line for a while– dependent solely upon how many cars have arrived prior to you. They were very efficient at this location, the only reason I had to wait an hour and a half was due to the large line of folks in front of me. Once I got up to the testing bay, it took a grand total of 5 minutes. My only problem at this point was figuring out what to do next. The woman gave me no info, just a sheet saying I had passed. The sheet told me to send it in to Nashville, though I knew this couldn’t be right as I wasn’t renewing plates, but obtaining new ones. After a half hour on the phone with my husband who researched endlessly, I figured out I had to go to the County Clerk’s office to obtain my plates.
In the end, all was well and I have no complaints about the actual MVIB, just that their is no clear explanation anywhere on how to obtain your plates once you pass the test. So confusing. So time consuming.