TxCowboy wrote:
How can your RV be inspected if you can't get it to an inspection station?
Wife and I live outside San Antonio and are destination campers -- we find a place we want to go and hire a commercial hauler to move it. We use it as a getaway place near the beach when weather and our work schedules permit it.
We just moved the FW into an RV park at the coast less than two weeks ago. Today I got my registration renewal with the requirement to have the RV inspected.
How the heck am I supposed to do that with my RAM 1500 which won't tow my 13K trailer? Am I going to have to pay someone to move my RV to an inspection station so they can check the lights and brakes?
Forget the inconvenience of disconnecting everything I just hooked up -- leveling, cable, sewer, water, etc. Just getting the RV out of the park, to the inspection site, then back into a RV park space is going to cost me quite a bit of money, all for a $7.00 inspection sticker.
I wonder if I can just hire somebody who is authorized to issue the license to come to my campsite?
This new law is a mess. I talked to a Trailer service client of mine yesterday, asked them about inspections and they are getting set up. They only do them on site, during a 1 hr period each day.
They can only charge $14 for it, and they get about half.
According to DPS, no one is even sure if they will allow a mobile Tech to do inspections, right now they are under the impression all inspections must be done on an approved premises.
I told them if they can work it out to be allowed to do them off site, and, if Texas would allow a travel charge, I am sure people would be willing to pay plenty extra to avoid having to take a rig into a facility to be done. They could notify RV parks one morning each month they could visit and do all the rigs needing inspections that month. This would benefit both the inspector and the RV owner.
All of this is the result of a well intentioned law written without thinking through the consequences of it.
