N.J. may close motor vehicle inspection stations, forcing drivers to pay
Friday, May 10, 2013 Last updated: Saturday May 11, 2013, 12:01 AM
BY MICHAEL LINHORST
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record
New Jersey drivers who get their cars tested for free every other year at a state inspection station may find themselves having to pay $50 or more at a private garage.
The state is still in the early stages of deciding whether to privatize the inspections, and any change is at least three years away, Raymond Martinez, the Motor Vehicle Commission’s chief administrator, told an Assembly committee this week. He said it was too soon to know precisely how much a privatized system might cost drivers or save the state.
But that hasn’t stopped Democrats from raising questions about why New Jersey would consider changing the current inspection system, which Martinez has said boasts “very little wait times” and “very high customer satisfaction.”
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If I have to pay then the cost of my annual registrations on the vehicles should be reduced accordingly.
What he said.
The real problem with private inspections is that there is a strong incentive for a private garage to fail your car and generate work for themselves to make your car pass inspection. Just ask any New Yorker.
Watch them throw this idea out there and then just decide they need to charge us directly for each inspection instead. It’s probably still the lesser of two evils.
nowadays inspection is just for emissions there isn’t much left to close down, I would hate to see anyone get laid off, but it is feasible if they do it thru attrition.
more bull shit. this state is so fucked up.
Maybe if the MV inspectors had half a brain they wouldn’t have to close down facilities.
They failed my truck for no cat on exhaust.
Problem is there IS a cat on the exhaust.
Idiot inspector didn’t know what a high flow cat looks like so failed it.