Screwed for classic plate renewal

[Rzeppa]

First time I've ever had to sign the affidavit

I had to sign it the last time I renewed my 60 back in 2020, plus I had to do it in person in front of them. Of course that was during lockdowns so masking, distancing, plastic barriers, etc. The morons under the gold dome keep making things more and more difficult to have an old vehicle.

 

[Crash]

I had to sign it the last time I renewed my 60 back in 2020, plus I had to do it in person in front of them. Of course that was during lockdowns so masking, distancing, plastic barriers, etc. The morons under the gold dome keep making things more and more difficult to have an old vehicle.

I don’t disagree Jeff, but I remember coming down to Denver from Summit Co. in the ‘70s and ‘80s and getting into the brown cloud of pollution as high as Idaho Springs. I bitch about clean air Colorado every time I have to get Bart tested but the Front Range air is definitely cleaner for the most part.

 

[RDub]

I had to sign and submit the form when I renewed my collector registration this year. I don’t recall if I had to sign one when I did it initially in 2020.

 

[Rzeppa]

I don’t disagree Jeff, but I remember coming down to Denver from Summit Co. in the ‘70s and ‘80s and getting into the brown cloud of pollution as high as Idaho Springs. I bitch about clean air Colorado every time I have to get Bart tested but the Front Range air is definitely cleaner for the most part.

Agreed the air is cleaner (FYI, the brown cloud was/is particulates, not the CO and NOx they test and fail us for), but it isn't cleaner due to the legislature's moving the goalposts on us and making it harder and harder to keep our old iron legal. It used to be that if your rig was 25 years old or older then you were eligible for collector's plates and no longer had to get smog tested. The number of older rigs driving around the front range is an itsy bitsy teeny tiny fraction of the total miles driven and of all vehicles and even if every one of them were failing smog limits it wouldn't make a measurable difference in air quality, which along the front range is primarily driven by temperature inversions in the winter and ozone in the summer.

 

[Crash]

According to the EPA NOx is a part of stew that creates particulates. I am in agreement that the changing standards as they relate to our old trucks is a genuine pisser. Retrograde changes to the numbers we have to meet is a burden that seems more than unfair. Numbers that were in compliance with national standards when the vehicle was brand new have been dramatically reduced, as you know, to practically unachievable levels, but that seems to be the way of government in general these days and not just in Colorado. Make rules that harm just about everybody.