State moves to ease vehicle inspection rules after complaints

Mechanics at Vermont Tire & Service in Montpelier. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger
Vermont is moving to relax motor vehicle inspection standards a year after the rollout of an electronic database system that many believe unfairly burdens drivers, especially lower-income residents with older cars.
Last March, the Department of Motor Vehicles instituted a new rule requiring mechanics at inspection stations to upload their results through an electronic database, eliminating a decades-old syste