What is the 10-day permit on the back of my citation?
When an officer takes your license at a DUI arrest, the citation serves two functions at once. It's notice that an administrative suspension has been imposed, and it's a temporary permit letting you drive during the period you have to respond.
The trap is treating it as a grace period rather than a deadline. It's both, and only one of those runs out quietly. When the temporary permit expires, the suspension is already in effect and there's nothing left to request.
What extends your ability to drive past that point is action taken inside the window — a demand for formal review produces a 42-day permit, and an approved waiver produces a business-purposes-only license.
If you take neither step, the permit lapses and the suspension begins.
Put the tenth day on a calendar today, not the date the permit expires. ---
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