Instead of harrassing Texas drivers for not having current car inspection stickers, it seems that TXDOT could take a look at all the Mexican bus lines operating out of Houston and So. TX. I’m fairly sure none of them have ever been inspected, though I probably sport fake inspection stickers.
During the evacuation for Hurricane Rita in ‘05, a load of elderly and infirm nursing home patients died in a Mexican-owned bus driven by an illegal alien. The brakes were so hot that they caused the gas lines to explode. You’d think that would have gotten the attention of the safety gurus in Austin, but apparently not.
oops...make that “they probably sport fake inspection stickers.”
Well this particular company, Angel, has been inspected 31 times in the last 24 months. And of course they found lots of stuff, most of it inconsequential. A few items did seem genuinely safety related though. Their permission to operate had been pulled.
What it looks like however is that the owner just started a new company which bought, or even just leased, the buses of the old company, and had applied for, but not received permission from the feds to operate intrastate. Pictures show no logos on the bus, whereas I've seen several "Angel Tours" buses on I-35 and US-75 (upon which the crash occurred. It's only been two weeks since I last traveled along that route, although I was southbound, northbound was a week and a half earlier than that.
You don’t understand, this their KUUUUULLLTUUURRREEEE!
This how they do it in Mexico!