Lol. The proposals here are a joke. Developers atill can't build. You can't disincentivize supply and expect magic. Sigh.

Allow developers to come in and mandate a certain percentage for low income residents. Problem solved.

Have to have an active farm to do that, I too want to exploit the loophole

And from the West, like California

And from further south. Vermont is kind of an ideal place as climate change screws up other parts of the country, especially when it comes to fresh water.

Go to other states the inspection is strictly emissions, so be glad they check safety in vt

Be smart about it:

1. Install the rear plate.
2. Take the other plate, put it in the car under the seat.
3. Drive the car.

Inspection is only needed if they realize you are from vermont. If your driving down the road with no front plate, and no sticker, they don’t know you are a Vermonter till you pass. There isn’t a cop in this state who is looking at the front plate then the window THEN the back plate to notice you should have had a sticker.

Keep your lights in working order, and don’t crash, and stay within 12 of the speed limit and you can go years with no sticker.

If only they worried about the rest of our crumbling infrastructure the way they do affordable housing and bike lanes.

Sorry this isn't helpful but I wonder how much of the housing shortage comes from VT law limiting landlord rights. I considered renting out part of my house but heard so many of these horror stories I figured it wasn't worth it

Neither of those is true. It was 125 or something the last time I got one. Pulled over for the sticker. I pulled the damn sticker, and called it a day

Cheap sheet metal and some rivet. Call it a day. Exhaust leak is a different story. No easy way around that.

That's wild. Really appreciate the info. The last step of my conversion was gutting it and making it all electric.... Already did that, now I can't really take it anywhere.... Bad planning on my part.

Some places won't if you don't have DOT tires, some places won't if you don't have blinkers, some places won't if you don't have a stock exhaust. It seems like it's all over the place. A lot of places don't really know the rules and are stricter than required because they don't want to lose their inspection license. I haven't had a bike inspected in a long time but with cars they have to take pictures with a special tablet and send them to the state, and if they fail you they notify the state so you can't just bring it somewhere else. It's a racket.

This is the answer.

They’re right. Climate change will bring an influx of people from the NY and MA. It’s already happening.

Blah, that's what I figured. The loophole still exists, I sent in the forms and they said I needed the dirtbike conversion form filled out first.

Bikes in my state are like "Do the lights work? Honk the horn. You're good". It's worse up there?

Yer facked. Gonna have to stud up and ride it here. We might be loose with registrations because we want your money but we got about the worst inspection regime in the country. Is there still the vermont loophole anyways? I thought there was talk about closing it down? It seems to be getting harder here for bikes, I stopped bothering to inspect mine.

Ask around who does sketchy inspections. Expect to go out of town

That's the reason why the stuff is pointless. Shitty cars are being passed anyways.

"In one study, researchers in Pennsylvania intentionally created 13 defects in a brand new car prior to inspection. Among the many garages they visited, the detection rate of real defects varied widely, from 25% to 54%. Interestingly, while mechanics on average only found five of the 13 defects, they also “found” an average of two non-existent defects."

I know a lot of people that go multiple years without inspecting. Unfortunately they changed where the stickers go but you used to be able to just keep a boat on top of your car and the cops would never be able to tell what number was on your sticker unless you got pulled over.

>The laws aren't that strict or unreasonable

It comes down to what you believe the purpose of the inspection is; IMO the primary purpose of the inspection is for safety reasons, not environmental.

For example my last car had an air injection valve get stuck occasionally. All it did was make the car run a little rougher, and use more gas for a month or two until it got un-stuck. But that was enough to fail inspection, so I would postpone my inspections for a month or two until it would pass.

While dealing with environmental issues is important, IMO it's not worth it if it would cause people to postpone safety checks (like it does in Vermont). Make it a separate sticker or something so people can still get their safety check and then deal with emissions later.

It should be like almost all other states where you are responsible for your own car. For example, Minnesota where I grew up has worse winters and rust issues and fewer auto deaths per capita. Unless the contention is Vermonters need to be babied more than Minnesotans for some reason, I don't get the point of these inspections.

"There are existing laws that allow police officers to issue citations for unsafe vehicles. There are statutes covering lighting, mirrors, mufflers, brakes, horns and tires. Comparison of insurance rates between those states that require annual inspections and those that do not show no significant difference in premiums. When fatality rates are compared, there is no correlation between inspections and fatalities. In short, the annual vehicle safety inspection has not been proven to benefit drivers in any way."

I would be happy to be proven wrong. The one study I've seen for inspections was being produced with ASA backing and I was less than impressed.

A CCP controlled indoctrination app that actively harvests user data?

An app that shows Chinese users lessons of math, science, technology, etc but shows US users people who eat laundry detergent and stack milk crates!?

Naahhhhh. Let it ride. No issue here. In fact, lets make it a law we all have to use Huawei phones!

Now, that, qualifies as a weird situation!

What was the fine. I heard something about it only being like $6. I also heard that they can’t pull you over for no sticker on it’s own. Not sure if either is true

In my day that was called a “lick’em and stick’em”