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Personally, I don't think a yearly inspection accomplishes a darned thing. Everything can be working perfectly on my truck during the inspection and two days later a headlight or tail light could go out. The horn could stop working or my just barely passing tires could finally go bald enough to fail next years inspection, a month after they just passed.

Mostly I get irritated by having my registration tied into a passing inspection. I have five vehicles and one motorcycle. I have had a situation where the darned battery had gone dead and I didn't know it because I rarely drive that vehicle. So I drop a new battery in, go down for the inspection and fail because I have to drive it 500 miles to get a good reading on their computer. Now I am stuck driving around with an expired registration while I try to chalk up miles on a vehicle rarely driven. It just trips all my triggers. Grrrrr... now get off my lawn!

Oh! I cannot figure out how the dedicated inspection stations pay the bills. We have them all over the place in Plano. None of them do repairs. Except maybe selling some windshield wipers. They must do one heck of a lot of inspections each day. These places are always in high rent areas. Heck, everywhere in Plano is high rent. They would have to be doing at least 75-100 inspections a day (which I seriously doubt it is even near that many). Just to pay rent and electricity. Not to mention payroll.