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Committee debates trimming or suspending Vermont vehicle inspections to ease costs for low-income drivers
Summary
Lieutenant Governor John Rogers and members of the House Transportation Committee discussed proposals to pause or narrow vehicle safety inspections, with members weighing safety, emissions and enforcement implications.
Lieutenant Governor John Rogers told the House Transportation Committee on April 30 that Vermont should consider suspending routine safety inspections or narrowing them to a short list of critical front‑end safety components while the Department of Motor Vehicles develops a revised regime.
Rogers said inspections are imposing repairs that owners of older vehicles cannot afford and that some mechanics use inspections to generate repair business. "So my my, my second proposal is to get rid of inspections altogether until and there again I would allow the DMV to go back to the drawing board and…
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