Being a State Inspection Station is Not Easy!
Frank Palange of V & F Auto advises that being a Massachusettes State Inspection Station is not easy!!
Station Fined & Suspended, Inspector’s
License Revoked in “Clean Scan” Case
Attorney General Martha Coakley announced in April that
her office had reached a settlement with a Dorchester motor
vehicle inspection station and an inspector it once employed,
resolving allegations that the defendants conducted illegal
on-board diagnostic (OBD) emissions tests on more than 70
vehicles between 2006 and 2008. Under the settlement, the station agreed to a total penalty of $144,000 — half of which will be suspended if the station operates within Massachusetts Vehicle Check rules over the next three years — and its inspection station license was suspended for six months. The inspector’s license to test vehicles was permanently revoked. To read more click here