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Yeah, that's my YouTube channel. I spliced that video from the senate and house stuff after our subcommittee meeting. The takeaways from the video are: 1) Carrico still doesn't seem to understand what the definition of vehicles impacted are. I can promise you the DMV will not agree with his...

I tried very hard to get them to change the definition, because it's a horrible definition. In a way, they agreed. But nobody has the time to do anything about it. If I told a lawyer that the definition of a "Former Military Surplus Vehicle" was "a multipurpose or tactical vehicle that was...

The intent and the verbiage of the entirety of the code make it pretty clear to me that only vehicles registered with the FMV plates are free from inspections AFTER a "certificate of safety" has been given to the DMV. Which is a terrifying thing, since it's not defined. That means the DMV...

To summarize it, the VA Code is written to give the "Superintendent" which I assume is the State Police Superintendent the authority to define inspections. As legislators typically do, they punt the details of their legislation to the unelected bureaucrats in departments like the DMV, or VA...

It does. But registration won't matter if the state police are being honest about every one of them failing inspection. When you fail inspection, your only option will be the military plates. That is their position.

Basically. The biggest annoyance to me is that no amount of facts or logic seemed to enter the picture. No senator asked of the State Trooper "Captain, do you have evidence to support that these vehicles are more dangerous than any others on the road in VA today?" Nothing of the sort. The...

It does, but the looming monster is still passing inspection. Which state police swears it won't pass again once their inspectors are "re-educated". The version that left the subcommittee after our appearance allowed ANY vehicle to be registered as normal as long as it passed inspection. So...

That's one of the most frustrating things about this bill. The wording is horrible. The theory is awful. And it leaves things up to the DMV and the VA State Police, which is a horrible punt by the legislature. The VA State Police will say that such a certification would be nothing short of...

The senate version was modified AGAIN. Looks like it was made worse again. I'm fuming, again. Some of the newly added text is:

IIRC, that is the section of the bill that we got struck from it in the amendment. So now you'd be good to go with a good inspection as long as you didn't opt to get the military plates. However, state police has promised that nobody will pass inspection with a former military vehicle. Or...

The state police changed inspection wording in September of 2017 to add FMVSS stuff as a requirement. My e-mail on this issue below:

The state police is swearing they will be revoking inspection licenses for inspectors that pass military vehicles. And they will know by the VIN.

Folks, this has little to do with HMMWVs. They were wanting to target 5 tons for things like having bumpers that were too high. They are wanting to target Japanese import vehicles that are starting to come in that are older than 25 years. I will have more in the future. We're still fighting.

The delegate who authored the bill in the House just called me and asked for my amendment and the reasoning. Just sent to him via e-mail. He's trying to help, but he's also having to bow to the DMV and State Troopers. The delegate swore that having such vehicles was against VA law right now...

My contact is the director of the legal action committee at SEMA. I will PM his contact info.

I'm updating with all I know at this point. Senate committee meeting is tomorrow, and I think we'll have a lot more information then. I've devoted about 2 full days to this, and I'm about to have to stop for today so I can make another 100 mirrors for a customer I have and deliver early in the AM.

I just got written support from SEMA's legal action team on our proposed amendment. Not sure if that means anything... but we'll see.

Scary development #2. The original bill that was drafted in January ALLOWED regular plating of military vehicles that went through regular inspections. THEY REMOVED that section of the bill in the final bill that passed. This is potentially very bad news. I have my suspicions about WHY...

We have seen the old version of the bill. The new version is worse. It changes the registration fee from $50 to $100. It changes the miles away from home allowance from 250 to 125. And it requires you to provide your home address and destination address to the officer so he can...

Did you get an answer or a reply on this, CARMAN?