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ESVA_Travelers
Jul 10, 2015Explorer
We're in Virginia and had not gotten our 5'ers inspected for quite a few years, primarily due to the inconvenience. Last summer we got a new 2015 Cedar Creek and headed for FL in January, we were stopped by an eagle-eyed state trooper outside Emporia, VA (also a notorious speed trap) who was able to see that we did not have the required sticker on the side of the pinbox. In case a fellow Virginian is wandering, the ticket & fees cost $91. Since then we've found out about a couple of new laws - a garage that does inspections for trailers, motorhomes, etc. has to have an opening tall enough for the unit to drive into AND the garages now are on a quota system where they are only allowed to do 16 inspections per day (total)! Many garages here have given up doing onspections altogether. There should be a law against requiring something and then making it almost impossible to meet the requirement --but then $16 inspection fee vs $91 fine may explain it all.
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