In an alert posted late Thursday morning, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias warned that "all DMVs across the country are currently down."The notice suggested consumers call their local offices before visiting because operating hours or services like road tests could be impacted by the outage.Colorado also reported issues, citing "a national outage with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators .
""Most driver license services, including online options, are affected, except driver license knowledge tests, endorsement tests and Commercial Driver’s License instruction permit tests, as well as scheduling hearings and requesting motor vehicle records," the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles warned. "There currently is no timeline for when services will be restored.