Fentress Driver Services Center Helps Thousands in First Five Months

Nashville, Tennessee —The Fentress County Driver Services Center has assisted almost 3,800 customers in its first five months of operation.  But Department of Safety officials would like to see even more people coming to the center, located at 641 South Main Street in Jamestown.

“We invite people across the Upper Cumberland, but especially those in Scott, Morgan, Pickett, Clay and Overton Counties, to use the Fentress County Center the next time they need driver services,” says Deputy Commissioner Greta Dajani.  “This center was opened to make services more convenient to them.”

State Driver License Director Wanda Moore echoes that sentiment.  “For several years, people across the Upper Cumberland’s northern border have had to drive to Cookeville or Crossville for driver services.  We’re trying to put every Tennessean within 30 miles or 30 minutes of a center.”

Jamestown and Fentress County are centrally located in an area that needed better access to driver license services.  This station offers people in Pickett, Overton, Morgan and Scott Counties a more convenient place to receive driver license services than the other stations in the region.  Jamestown is nearly halfway between stations in Cookeville (to the west), Crossville (to the south) and LaFollette (to the east).

The Fentress County Driver Services Center is open Tuesday through Friday from 7:00am – 5:30pm.  On April 30th, it will become a Monday through Thursday operation.  The business hours will remain the same.

This is a full-service station, where customers can take written and road skills tests for a driver license, apply for a handgun permit or get driver records.  Applicants are encouraged to make appointments for road tests.  This can be done online at: http://www.tnanytime.org/dlappts/.

The center, which began serving customers on Wednesday, November 1, is one of seven new that opened across the state last year.  The other locations were in Fayette, Hamilton, Obion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby Counties.

The Tennessee Department of Safety (www.tennessee.gov/safety) is responsible for ensuring the safety and general welfare of the traveling public.  The department’s general areas of responsibility include law enforcement, safety education and motorist services including the issuance of driver licenses.  The department and its highly trained staff of Troopers are responsible for safety on more than 15,000 miles of state and federal highways.