Posted on 06/25/2014 7:24:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
AUSTIN (AP/KXAN) — Come next March, Texas drivers will no longer be required to have an inspection sticker on their windshield.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is getting rid of inspection stickers. You still have to get an inspection, but that inspection will become tied with your registration.
Think of it as a marriage of your registration and your inspection stickers — with that marriage you’ll get one sticker and one anniversary. You won’t have to keep track of two dates.
Starting in March, the inspection stickers stop. You’ll have to get an inspection no more than 90 days before your registration expires — in order to register.
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No, but in much of South Texas you see POS cars with bad tires, brakes and almost too dangerous to drive.
The closer to the Mexican border = the more of these beaters there are.
Yes it is. I spent a few years out there. Much nicer to visit than live at. Kinda like Mayberry RFD- anything happens makes the gossip rounds in an hour or less...
Why would they need inspection stickers in Texas...
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Money, money, money. But one other thing in the mix is Texas has two different inspection
systems. One in some of the major population centers that measure emissions in order to meet
some Fed guidelines. The other outside these population centers isn’t as strict. This
agreement with the feds was made many years ago.
DPS has scanners that read the Lic/Insp stickers on the windshield as you drive by them.
You sure it was Jeb Bush? I’ve lived in Florida since 1988 and I’ve never had to get my car inspected.
People say Texas is anti big government. B.S. Here I am in southeastern Washington State, supposedly liberal state, no inspection or emissions tests, never have been.
I did not know that.
I do know that the last time I went to HEB with my vehicle registration renewal, I brought in my proof of insurance as required.
Didn’t need it.
Seems that by now the insurance companies are live and online with TXDOT. If you don’t have insurance or if it lapsed - the State knows it. And if thats the case - no renewal sticker for you.
Convenient, right? But actually its just another intrustion by the State to know everything about you.
Now the cops will be able to pull up your safety certification info by scanning a barcode on the registration sticker (they can already verify your insurance status that way).
I'd rather have the old racket.
I’ve never had the rip-off experience, but I’ve always taken my vehicle of choice-a 4x4-to be inspected in a small community, even when I lived in the city-it is much more truck and SUV friendly there. I live in BFE, and take my 4x4 to the same guy who fixes it for inspection, but I believe the fines for that kind of extortion by an inspection station are pretty ruinous now...
Same in NC, when I moved here I found out they have all the info in the system- Insp/Tags/Ins/TAXES!
Not only do you pay sales tax on a vehicle at purchase in NC but they TAX IT AGAIN EVERY YEAR! If you are not current on the taxes no Tags!
If you let your Ins lapse even a few days they fine you a minimum of $50.00.
And they have a “Points system” on your DL too many and you lose your DL.
And to get an NC DL you have to take a written AND driving test no matter if you have a current out of state Lic and/or have been driving for 50 years. No trading a valid one in like Texas.
AND they are still broke in the budget!
I miss Texas;(
No. Eatontown NJ back in the 80s.
Al Queada Hunting License.
And- if you are late getting your tags, instead of Prorating them YOU PAY EXTRA!.
Found that out this year when the truck would not pass inspection due to Check Engine light/stored codes in the ECM. They hook it to a State scanner that won’t pass if there are ANY codes stored in the ECM OR if they have been cleared and it has no History.
You’re right....maybe it was Bob Martinez.
Amen...my first day in corrupt soviet Red Hampshire, a local squealer passed me going the other direction. I noticed him doing a u-turn, and he came up on my back end quickly. He sat there until I turned off the main drag. I went home (such as it was...spit). He looped around, and explained to me that he hadn't seen an inspection sticker, and had planned on pulling me over UNTIL he saw my Tennessee plants. Stupid *******.
Only by a state that has accepted extortion money from the Feds.
"Institute mandatory emissions inspections and we'll send you this $250 million in funds to improve your highway infrastructure."
I'm betting Texas has told the Feds to go stick it. As should every state in the Union.
If a vehicle is over 25 years, no inspection? There ya go. Just a money maker, not a smidgen of ‘safety’ to citizens of Texas. Twenty Five year old cars have little safety
I’m betting Texas has told the Feds to go stick it.
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Texas isn’t doing away with the inspections, just the inspection sticker they issued
that was placed in the left lower corner of the windshield. The inspection
and registration stickers will now be combined into one sticker.
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