Missing safety inspection might not be vendor’s fault

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 23, 2012

~~QUESTION: Last year you wrote about a mainland contractor being way behind in updating the city’s motor vehicle safety check database, so when vehicle registration renewal forms were sent out, they indicated safety checks were required even though the inspections were current. This is happening to me again within two years. My safety check was done in July, almost eight months ago. If I send in my pink copy that is required to be kept in my vehicle, I will be breaking the law by not having that copy in my vehicle. The last time this happened, I went to the satellite city hall to renew my registration. But I normally renew by mail as it is very inconvenient for me to rush to the satellite city hall after work. How do I prove I have a safety check when I have to send in the form to renew the registration?
ANSWER: As we described <a target="_blank" href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20110826__Online_vehicle_registration_plagued_by_system_backlog.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+staradvertiser_rss+%28Staradvertiser+Headlines%29" style="color: #0000ff;" span="">last August</a> the city continues to have problems with Perfect Image, the vendor holding the contract to enter safety inspections into the database.
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QUESTION: Last year you wrote about a mainland contractor being way behind in updating the city’s motor vehicle safety check database, so when vehicle registration renewal forms were sent out, they indicated safety checks were required even though the inspections were current. This is happening to me again within two years. My safety check was done in July, almost eight months ago. If I send in my pink copy that is required to be kept in my vehicle, I will be breaking the law by not having that copy in my vehicle. The last time this happened, I went to the satellite city hall to renew my registration. But I normally renew by mail as it is very inconvenient for me to rush to the satellite city hall after work. How do I prove I have a safety check when I have to send in the form to renew the registration?

ANSWER: As we described last August the city continues to have problems with Perfect Image, the vendor holding the contract to enter safety inspections into the database. Login for more...