re: Just got a ticket for expired inspection sticker.

You do have 30 day grace period in Louisiana. Call the DA’s office.

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Inspection stickers are nothing more than a revenue source. FTP and the bastards in Baton Rouge

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Wish it was to get car up to date. See lots of people with brakes and headlights out.

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How fricking lazy are you? Wow.

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I went like six years before without getting one of my trucks inspected. It's not about being lazy. It's about getting robbed by the state. Why should I have to keep paying 10-20 dollars for a sticker that is going to fall off in a few weeks.

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You do have 30 day grace period in Louisiana. Call the DA’s office.

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No, you don't.

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How do you prove your sticker without driving into court?

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In the thriving metropolis of Denham Springs, they had me pull into the parking lot and the receptionist looked out the window at my windshield. Very official.

No one bothers me in Alexandria area, expired in April. Don’t plan on going anytime soon.

Fight that shite.

You don’t even need to hire a lawyer for this one

I agree with dovehunter. Have a check engine light on for emissions on my old jeep now. Can’t get an inspection sticker. Not paying to fix it. It runs fine. So…. I will ride without one. Pisses me off.

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Mine is expired by 3yrs

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That's why I like you Yote, you live on the edge.

Now on topic, I have special equipment in my van to drive from my wheelchair. This is the info if anyone cares about the electronic driving equipment EMC

Long story short, my inspection sticker expired buy like 2 months, but I had to go get my driving equipment inspected where I got it installed and they check everything, they do a more detailed inspection of the vehicle than they do when I get my van inspected for the state and I go every 6 to 8 weeks so I just thought I would wait to get my inspection sticker right after I go get all my equipment inspected.

At the time it just made sense. I get it all done in 1 day, in my mind it was pointless to go get a state inspection sticker so being over a few months shouldn't be a problem (this was when I was younger). About 2 weeks before I was going bring in my van to get all the equipment checked out, etc I am driving through neighborhoods on my way home. I stop at a stop sign and there was a cop that stopped in the opposite direction.

All of a sudden I could see the reflection of lights in my review so I looked and saw the cop car with the lights on doing a U turn. I pull off to the side to give the car room thinking they got a call in and headed to a scene. She tells me to go up next street and pull over there. I wasn't speeding, I stopped at the stop signed, I had no idea why I was being stopped. I pull over, she comes up to me and asked if I know why she stopped me, I told her I did not. I honestly didn't even think about the inspection sticker.

She tells me my inspection sticker is expired by almost 3 months. I explained to her why I had not gone get it yet and how it had only been 7 months since an unofficial inspection had been done (the place just isn't certified to do state inspections, but they download all of the software, then make sure all functions work, the software includes the same reads as a state inspection) and that I could go that moment to get it. She told me I could go do whatever I wanted, but because she saw it was expired she was giving me a ticket.

I said something like "really? You can follow me to make sure I go get an inspection sticker". She said she didn't need to follow me to go do what I was supposed to do 3 months earlier" I then told her something like "so you really don't care if someone has an inspired inspection sticker other than it gives you a reason to stop and issue tickets?".

She wasn't too happy about the way I said it (I think I said a few cuss words) so she gave me another ticket for some bullshite. At that point I was pissed at myself, I should have just let her issue the ticket and get it taken care of, but I can't just keep my mouth shut like a moron..

I called the place where I go get the equipment checked out and explained to the dude who owned the place what happened.. two days later the chief of police calls me up and tells me he apologized for the inconvenience and the tickets have been taken care of. But some of these cops look for the easy stops. I get it, they want to show they are doing work, but the inspection sticker thing is all just another tax and a bullshite law that gives police some bullshite to enforce.