Car driver pays the price for ignoring oncoming semi

You want cheaper insurance, then bug your legislature for tort reform......but good luck with that, because a large percentage of legislators are attorneys, and tort reform would kill the goose that laid the golden egg.....so it never gets voted on.....but that's what is needed to lower insurance premiums. Limits have to be placed on settlements.....pay medicals, but cap "economic" damages and get rid of punitive damages. Add to that limits on what hospitals/doctors can charge and you have reductions in insurance costs, and then premiums go down.....but again....good luck with any/all of that.

 

It depends on where you go around here. Some inspection stations (4 wheelers) really don't look at anything, plug the vehicle into the computer and give it a 'pass'. Others will do a full legit inspection. You should see that tires on some of those vehicles backing out of the bay at the "less than thorough" stations! Out in the country areas a lot of counties don't have emissions testing, so the yearly inspection is just a safety inspection.

Texas has tied the vehicle inspection in with the vehicle registration. There has to be a current inspection in order to get registration renewed. It has taken some of the clunkers off of the road in my area, but there are still a whole lot of vehicles that really aren't road worthy.

In the semi truck world, it's different in my experience. The places doing big truck inspections are doing it right (at least where I've been). And to top that off, several of the bigger cities now have commercial vehicle enforcement out searching for their share of the 'predatory taxation money' pie.

As a side note, about a year or so ago the Ft Worth Police Department's CMV clan had a 1/2 ton truck pulled over that had a Case 580 backhoe on a standard bumper pull utility trailer. They had the portable scales out when I went by! LOL!! That poor trailer had all it wanted with the weight of that backhoe and it's one time where I was glad to see a road side being performed!

 

yes, that's the way it is here, but the passing (or) failing of the emissions, determines if the car gets a new inspection sticker.

and if not, the state gets that information via the computers talking, and you are given x number of days to get it fixed, and re-tested. if not, the registration is cancelled.

i never worried about big truck inspections, other than to check the validity of the sticker, and if close to expiration, take it to the shop.

 

Dude they're making cars now with 'Lane Departure Warning' systems.

WTF is that supposed to be for?

For texting while driving. Why else would anyone need an alarm to tell them about what they should already be observing with their own two eyes.

 

^^^This^^^

When they make machinery and equipment "idiot proof", evolution will just make a better idiot!

 

Fact:
Trucking company will pay a price of higher insurance premiums or cancellation and rejection from a few broker's seeing a "crash" on the FMCSA.

Same thing happened to me in January 2019, and No! It was not removed when I challenged it 6 months later

 

Maryland at one time used to carry or still carries Historic Tags for vehicles 25 years and older. There are some here in Arkansas that are also historic tagged and registered. The main thing is they have to have more or less what the factory put on them such as the original wheel, mirrors etc at Md Inspection.

Arkansas has nothing at all. No emissions, not even vapor recovering at fuel stations (Which was a hassle) and only a small sentence in the law saying if you were to cause a accident by having your vehicle neglected in maintenance it will be on you.

Your other consideration in this state is 10% taxes on sale prices above 4000.00 to get title and tags.

Otherwise you can run that thing any old way. Straight piple no pipe, crate engine, whatever. Strip the engine out and drop a carburated or another fuel engine into it. Whatever you want. Ride high, low or everything in between.

I keep mine generally stock and in good repair where possible. There is always a list of shop work to do on it pending. Arkansas is one of the last of the free states which only wants 30 some dollars for tags per year. Maryland on the other hand is excessive. Many people would get addresses in PA and register there. Its one of the reasons I emigrated from Maryland. My last car being about the '71 model year was a very difficult vehicle to essentially rebuild until it met their inspection with a full tag, non historic. Emissions was actually passed by the new fuel system but not applicable to that year and not with the glasspack pipes etc.

When I came here I picked up a 86 elcamino for a few thousand which was a proven road car, spent 200.00 next day replacing and rebuilding the entire Carter Carb on that V8 and another thousand at the shop etc. I kept that car a number of years and its been to the east coast and back a few times without too much trouble. For what it was it was a good car, but a mountain one with a very high set of rear axle which limited it to 80 top end. Sometimes I think maybe we keep that car, but economics required we moving on later on with other vehicles.

 

Why else, how about when they're sleepy?

As one Consumer Reports reader mused, “Lane-departure warning made me realize that I weave too much, so I'm a better driver now. However, it's annoying in everyday driving, so I turn it on only when I'm driving while sleepy. Then I'm happy to have it.”
Lane-Departure Warning Is a Turn-Off Feature for Most Owners