Moyock license plate agency operator announces remainder of contract is for sale
- Corinne Saunders
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Allison Neckervis, the contractor operating the North Carolina license plate agency in Moyock for over six years, stands outside the office the morning of Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Saunders)
By Corinne Saunders
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MOYOCK — The operator of the North Carolina license plate agency in Moyock for over six years announced the sale of the remainder of the agency’s state contract, encouraging interested parties to call the office.
“I have decided to go ahead and sell my contract,” said Allison Neckervis, citing family reasons. Her company, Currituck Area Holdings, LLC, has operated the license plate agency since it opened.
“I am open to hearing from anyone who is interested in running a license plate agency,” she said, adding that she would like to sell it in the next five months.
The office, located at 257 Caratoke Highway (N.C. Highway 168), Suite E, in Moyock, became Currituck County’s first license plate agency when it opened on Sept. 24, 2019, according to a North Carolina Department of Transportation press release issued the day before the opening.
It remains the only license plate agency in Currituck County.
Statewide, 131 license plate agencies currently operate, according to a Friday, Jan. 16 press release. Each provides vehicle registration services and title transactions, vehicle license plate renewals, replacement tags and duplicate registrations.
Private contractors operate most license plate agencies (LPAs) in the state, with eight-year contracts that sometimes have two-year extensions, according to John Brockwell, communications officer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
“There are currently 128 contracts to private business owners to operate an LPA,” Brockwell said in a Wednesday email.
Some individuals operate more than one LPA, and the DMV operates two license plate agencies: Raleigh East and Huntersville Express, he added.
“Contractors are paid on a transactional basis per NCGS 20-63(h),” Brockwell previously told Outer Banks Insider. “Term contracts are eight years with a two-year extension (if the contractor is in good standing based on the contract and standard operating procedures).”
Six months before any contract expiration date, the DMV is required to publicly open up applications, according to Brockwell.
“Most of the time, the current contractor of an LPA is awarded another term to operate his/her LPA,” he said.
A change in state law, effective Oct. 1, 2024, allows contractors to sell their businesses before their contracts’ expiration dates to other contractors deemed qualified by the DMV.
To date, Brockwell said that such a sale has not taken place.
“The process has never been completed on any LPA,” he said in a Wednesday email.
Allison Neckervis (second from right), the Moyock license plate agency operator, stands with her three full-time employees, Winter Simmons, Geraldine Jackson and Ashley Barnes (l-r) the morning of Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Saunders)
Neckervis’ contract goes through August 2027, she said, adding that because the agency is in good standing, it should have a two-year extension—taking it to August 2029.
The Moyock office employs three full-time local staff members, Neckervis said. She called her staff “awesome” and shared positive sentiments about her customers and the community.
“I so enjoy Currituck County,” Neckervis said. “This community’s grown to be like family to me. They’ve accepted me so warmly.”
She said she and her husband moved to the area when her husband was stationed at the Dam Neck U.S. Navy base in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
On the morning of Monday, Jan. 19, Geraldine Jackson attended to customers from behind the counter at the license plate agency in Moyock. One said he was hard of hearing, and she spoke loudly for him, which he told her he appreciated.
She told Outer Banks Insider that she originally started working for Neckervis’ shipping business, which is located next door.
“I wouldn’t have the experience, the confidence or the connections if she hadn’t given me a job, so I definitely owe her a lot,” Jackson said. “I wouldn’t have ever stepped out of my comfort zone, and she drug me out of it. She’s a little pushy, but I do appreciate the kick.”
Neckervis greeted a customer by name, and the customer stepped over to give her a quick hug before approaching the counter.
The license plate agency has garnered hundreds of positive online reviews and has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on Google. Reviewers routinely praise the work of staffers, with several noting how the experience stands out among other government-related interactions.
“It’s the first time dealing with the NC government that was a good experience,” Wendy Mangan wrote in her public five-star review.
For over eight months last year, Dare County customers who needed in-person services had to travel out of the county, until a new license plate agency opened in Kitty Hawk on Sept. 4, 2025. Multiple positive Google reviews were from such customers who went to the Moyock office.
“Had to drive from Kill Devil Hills,” Melissa Carlson wrote eight months ago. “Agent was quick, efficient and friendly!”
“I enjoyed so much meeting everyone from Dare who came up from the Manteo branch,” Neckervis said.
The license plate agency that was located in Island Pharmacy in Manteo closed permanently on Dec. 31, 2024, at the expiration of Rebecca Luton’s contract. Luton had operated the agency since 1997. She retired, according to a statement Dare County Board of Commissioners Chairman Bob Woodard issued after the closing was announced.
The license plate agency in Moyock is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and its phone number is 252-232-9670.
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