Pulled from a thread on ls1tech, pulled from somewhere else....

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yup, no joke. Northern Va. drivers look out! White vans.... they locate them along the entrance ramps of highways a bunch of other local roads... equiped with emission checking equipment....... remote sensing devices to test vehicle emissions.......(boy does this leave the road open for alot of false "triggers"..) One VA official said "its like an emission radar".......(give me a break) Its a private contractor doing the work under "supervision of the State".......

ok, this "remote sensing equipment" projects an invisable beam, infrared and ultraviolent light across the roadway where vehicles pass. A mirror is set up on the other side of the road...it reflects the beam back across the street/highway/road and into a series of detectors. data collection devices also capture an image of the rear of the vehicle including the license plate......."so that Motor Vehicle records can be checked to identify the owner if a suspected violation is discovered"........ (sheez o flip)

if the remote sensors detect emission levels exceeding those alloweed, the owner recieves a notice from DEQ........ however..(and this is funny).."the letter is not sent to an owner unless emission problems have been detected twice by the mobile unit. (thier way of saying "it wasn't a false reading")

those that do not comply with the terms of the DEQ letter (they have 30 days) face a civil fine...the amount depending on the level of emissions.......

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Pretty soon we wont be able to scratch our ***** without the Pubic Police watching.
(In Leeann's case make that scratch her well you know.....)

 

How does this work if you are in a locality that does not require emissions testing?

 

What he said........

My truck is registered in York County where there's no testing requirement but I'm working NOVA now.

 

http://www.9wusa.com/news/news_artic...1&provider=top

Reading this, I bet if your registered somewhere w/o required testing they don't send you anything...

 

They are common here in Texas as well

I have run thru them many times - Pig rich under fuill throttle ... No problems

 

Nice, just what we need. First facial recognition cams in VA Beach, then red light cams, now truck butt sniffers.

 

Here is the link to the DEQ website:
http://www.deq.state.va.us/mobile
The emmission testing is done only in certain counties. All Virginia laws regarding taxation and inspections are based where the vehicle is parked (ie. registered). So emission inspections are only done (on a dyno I might add) to vehicles registered and parked in all of about 8 counties. Finally, how on earth would you be able to regulate a vehicle from another state or county of Virginia, simply by beaming a light through an exhaust stream? Come on, I-95 is one continuous exhaust stream. How could you reliably separate them?