{"id":6112,"date":"2014-07-06T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/06\/no-more-inspection-sticker-yes\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T22:32:37","slug":"no-more-inspection-sticker-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6112","title":{"rendered":"No more inspection sticker? Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Don’t misunderstand me here. I am not that worked up over a change in the way Texas motor vehicles will be marked as being properly inspected.<\/p>\n

Beginning next March, the state won’t require motorists to have a sticker slapped on their windshields to show police officers that the vehicle’s been inspected.<\/p>\n

The change appears to have some folks a bit nervous. Why? I have no clue.<\/p>\n

The idea, as I understand it, is to save the state some dough, a couple million bucks a year. I guess that’s the cost of printing the stickers that go on our windshields.<\/p>\n

Some individuals have interpreted the change as meaning the state won’t require the inspections. Wrong.<\/p>\n

We’ll still be required to have mechanics look for safety defects in our vehicles before we purchase auto registration stickers that will continue <\/em>to be displayed on our windshields.<\/p>\n

But as with most change, some of us get a bit jumpy about it.<\/p>\n

One lawmaker told my pal Enrique Rangel, writing for the Amarillo Globe-News, that he voted against the legislation creating the change because it was “so overreaching.” Rep. Drew Springer, R-Muenster, then told Rangel that the bill was approved with so little debate he’d forgotten about it until Rangel brought it up to him.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what he means.<\/p>\n

Well, the sticker is gone. The inspection remains. We’ll just have to get used to it, as we usually do whenever change is forced upon us.<\/p>\n\n

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