Out of curiosity, do you have sources? My family lore/members have mentioned of it, Stephen King referenced it in “Tommyknockers.”

My family is from rural central Maine where many people only drive around two back and forth from a ‘hub’ town or city. The town is easily memorable and there is often only one way to get back and forth to the city. I could see a low bar for driver’s licenses in these incidences especially because services aren’t exactly flush.