05-26-2015, 12:36 PM
Safety check requirements are a nanny state sham.
Everywhere else I've lived, if law enforcement notices a violation, they stop and ticket as appropriate (a lot of crimes are caught this way... your headlight is out, and why is your car full of (insert demonized contraband du jour)).
Pushing safety requirements down to an administrative procedure is counterproductive from a law enforcement angle and only encourages private citizens giving the safety checks to rubber stamp as many as they can get paid for, as quickly as they can get paid for them.
This has only resulted in more administrative red tape getting applied to old tape so now instead of policing the vehicles, the state is policing the third-party vendors who are inspecting the vehicles so that the police can pull them over and give them citations for either not having the safety check stickers or for being in violation of having their stickers (i.e. your headlight is out even though your safety check is good).
It seems like we could just remove this entire intermediate administrative "vehicle check" process and use the black hole of funding that is feeding it to hire police to do the job that they are supposed to. Like every other state that has no safety check requirement but all the cars on the road are just as safe as here.
p.s. Forget about my other post about safety check and decibel measurements when you read this. The posts are apples and oranges!
Everywhere else I've lived, if law enforcement notices a violation, they stop and ticket as appropriate (a lot of crimes are caught this way... your headlight is out, and why is your car full of (insert demonized contraband du jour)).
Pushing safety requirements down to an administrative procedure is counterproductive from a law enforcement angle and only encourages private citizens giving the safety checks to rubber stamp as many as they can get paid for, as quickly as they can get paid for them.
This has only resulted in more administrative red tape getting applied to old tape so now instead of policing the vehicles, the state is policing the third-party vendors who are inspecting the vehicles so that the police can pull them over and give them citations for either not having the safety check stickers or for being in violation of having their stickers (i.e. your headlight is out even though your safety check is good).
It seems like we could just remove this entire intermediate administrative "vehicle check" process and use the black hole of funding that is feeding it to hire police to do the job that they are supposed to. Like every other state that has no safety check requirement but all the cars on the road are just as safe as here.
p.s. Forget about my other post about safety check and decibel measurements when you read this. The posts are apples and oranges!