On closer inspection

Regarding the article, “Vehicle inspections get tougher/Garage practices eyed” (BDN, Nov. 6-7).

I was one of the business owners who gave up my inspection license due to the time it takes to do a perfect inspection, and every year you have to spend more money to keep up.

I run a small garage, and am trying to make a living, but the state would rather lose small business than help us stay in business. I gave up my license because it’s a five-year license, and it expired a year ago – I never knew it had expired – and the State Police were in my garage and never told me it was about to expire. I overlooked it.

The state now says that because it had been expired for more than one year, I would have to take the test all over again. Weren’t they wrong for sending me inspection stickers even though my inspection license had lapsed? They never notified me that my license needed to be re-issued, instead they took it.

Maybe the state should do all the state inspections and see if they can make money at it and let them spend money for all the tools, books, headlight aim and meters.

Someone in Augusta should fine-tune these laws and to suit the public, instead of making laws to take vehicles off the road.

Marty Noyes

Hermon