RICHMOND, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Immediately following the devastation of Hurricane Helene in Southwest Virginia, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles employees organized a donation drive to help. A DMV release says on October 15, DMV Commissioner Gerald Lackey took the wheel of DMV’s 40-foot semi-tuck loaded with over 5 tons of supplies donated by DMV employees to deliver them to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management center at Bristol Motor Speedway. Along the way, DMV’s truck stopped in Roanoke to collect more supplies from DMV employees in the region and an incredibly generous donation from the employees from the Marriot Group at Roanoke Airport.

In addition to supplies such as paper goods, water, cleaning supplies, hygiene items and diapers, the DMV Connect mobile service team took their ‘DMV in a briefcase’ to Damascus, Virginia for over a week to help process transactions to help folks get replacement driver’s licenses and titles and to answer questions.