Got a ticket yesterday..

My inspection sticker had expired. He told me I ought to know where the justice court was since I had been living here all my life.The funny thing was that I did not know him and did not tell him anything about how long I have lived here.

When the cop did a check with DMV he could get all your driver/residency history he wanted or needed.

Just a not-too-subtle hint on his part to let you know that he knows everything about you.

In Ohio, the only way he would know is if he ran you through NCIC. Did he run your tag or SS#? I think he may been bluffing you

He sat in his car for some time before talking to me, I guess he ran my tag number.

A guy I worked with got a ticket once for an expired inspection sticker, and the cop wouldn't let him drive it on home. Had to tow it, and it was a nearly new truck. Cop said he couldn't tell if it was safe to drive without a current sticker.

Guess I am lucky I live in Wisconsin

Ask your state law makers how states with out inspections pay their bills!!!

Dave

Thanks for the reminder.

My license tags are more than a month overdue. Forgot about'em.

You may have saved me a ticket.

So what's the deal with "inspection stickers"- do you have to have your rig inspected yearly? For general safety items, or just exhaust polution?

In Washington, the bigger counties make you do an exhaust analysis yearly, but that hasn't got out into the hinterlands. No other "inspections" needed. They used to make you have the State Patrol inspect any vehicle being brought in from out of state- but that was just to verify VIN numbers, not safety, and they even abandoned that several years ago.

Mike, here in Illinois it was once required for all pickups to have a safety inspection every six months. That was dropped maybe 25 years ago? My son has a one ton truck, and I notice a sticker in his windshield, and he also has a tandem trailer with an inspection sticker on it. I do not know the current laws concerning safety inspection, other than knowing that the vehicles I presently own are no longer required to be inspected.

The truck I mentioned below, with the expired sticker, was actually owned by the state of Illinois, and the ticketing officer was an Illinois state patrolman. We usually enjoyed a little leeway with our state vehicles, to the point of getting them inspected once a year, instead of the required six month intervals. Nevertheless - the law is the law, and the officer had every right to write a ticket and require a tow. It's funny when it happens to one of your work buddies, but a travesty of justice when it happens to ME!! It was especially funny in this case, because the guy who received the ticket/tow bill is as tight as the skin on a bean, and we reminded him about it every day for months afterward. Big alligator tears. . .

Paul