Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
My brand new RealID license has a field “First” that has the original date this particular state issued me a license. That’s not when I got my very first license, in another state, but certainly was more than a year ago.
I don’t know which locations (countries) have this particular requirement, but I am pretty sure I have rented cars in Europe with a less than one year old physical license without issues. The goal in any case seems to be to not rent to inexperienced drivers, and the implementation can’t (shouldn’t) really be to go by the issue date of a physical piece of paper or plastic. If you have a rental history with Hertz that goes back more than a year, that would seem good evidence of your “experience”.
I suspect it will be a non-issue, but do you have a scan/photo of your previous license you could take with you? (I have all my previous licenses as pictures in my password manager app)
I have a Real ID license as well. On the back, in very small print, it has a Rev date which is the last time it was printed before last week. That will be well over a year from when I'll be renting from Hertz later this year.
I suspect as well that it will be a non issue. I might have even rented cars with newer licenses before, but I just never thought of it. I would think that if it is a problem, it would be a common problem. Licenses are generally valid for 4 to 8 years, depending of course on who issues it. If it's 8 years, that means that on average 12.5% of drivers would have a license (re)issued within a year.