As DMVs struggle to keep their doors open, rural Oregonians are harder hit

As DMVs struggle to keep their doors open, rural Oregonians are harder hit

Every first Thursday of the month is DMV Day in Gilliam County. It’s the only day each month that, for five hours, the fewer than 2,000 residents of this east-central Oregon county can line up to take a driving test, renew a driver’s license, or, like Tim McDonald of Rock Creek, retitle a trailer.The Condon DMV has no full-time staff, but on a recent foggy Thursday morning, the small waiting room was packed with people who otherwise would have t…