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Vehicle inspection stations

67,750 listings29 states5,934 citiesAbout this listUpdated October 2026

Every station here comes from the list a state government publishes of the places it licenses to inspect vehicles: safety inspections, emissions tests, or both. Where a state says a station can handle heavy-duty or commercial vehicles, the listing says so. Where it does not say, nothing is assumed.

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About this list

What is covered, where it comes from, and what the rules say

Every station here comes from the list a state government publishes of the places it licenses to inspect vehicles: safety inspections, emissions tests, or both. Where a state says a station can handle heavy-duty or commercial vehicles, the listing says so. Where it does not say, nothing is assumed.

67750in the directory
13740license unexpired
2672license lapsed
51338in the state register
5934cities
717counties
14ymedian years licensed
220diesel-capable
37425rated
4.5average score

The largest concentration is in Philadelphia: 2019 of 67750 (3%). Other cities covered include Pittsburgh (1135), Harrisburg (545), Brooklyn (503), York (465), Erie (461), and 5928 more.

By county, the 67750 entries fall across 717 counties; the largest are Allegheny (2415), Philadelphia (2014), Montgomery (1723), Erie (1513). County here is resolved by locating each address inside the official county boundary rather than trusting the register's own county column, which is wrong on a small number of rows.

Of the 16412 entries here whose register publishes license dates, 13740 have a license that has not expired and 2672 have one that has lapsed.

Lapsed records stay on the page and are marked as lapsed.

A further 51338 entries come from a register that publishes no license dates at all. They were on the register when it was last refreshed, on August 27, 2026 and September 27, 2026.

Across the 16411 entries with a recorded first-issue date, the median has held a license for 14 years. The longest-standing is George Chevrolet, first licensed in January 1972, 54 years ago.

The most recent renewal recorded here is September 2026. 2158 unexpired licenses run out within the next 90 days, so check the date on the card before booking.

The license classes represented here are Public Inspection Station (10438), Smog Station - Test & Repair (3942), Safety Inspections (2254), Smog Station - Test Only (1963), Class A: passenger vehicles, minivans, pickups and SUVs up to 10,000 lbs GVWR (1125), and 19 more.

16274 of the 67750 (24%) hold more than one class of license. Across this page the classes held include safety (46184), emissions (14892), Public Inspection Station (10438), Repair Shop (9923), Used Car Dealer (2416).

220 of the 67750 are recorded by the state as diesel-capable, which is the subset that matters for a heavy commercial vehicle.

12946 of 67750 publish a phone number and 22524 have a website.

This list publishes no phone numbers, so no listing drawn from it shows one. That is how the source publishes it, not a gap in this record., The New Jersey register publishes a phone number but no website, so no New Jersey listing here shows a website. and The New York register has no phone or website column, so no New York listing here shows either. That is how the state publishes the file, not a gap in this record.

8465 of the 67750 entries could not be placed on a map: the register gives a PO box, a bare route number or a road junction rather than a street address, and 8391 of those are currently on the register. They are listed and searchable here by name, city and county, but not on the map.

37425 of the 67750 have a Google rating, averaging 4.5 across 14330173 reviews. Scores run from 1.0 to 5.0.

Records on this page come from 31 registers: Emissions testing stations (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (Air Care Colorado)), Air Care station map (City of Albuquerque, Vehicle Pollution Management Division), Vehicle emissions testing locations (Arizona Department of Environmental Quality), Public licensee list (Automotive Repair) (California Bureau of Automotive Repair), Emissions test center locator (Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles), Vehicle inspection station (District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles), Vehicle inspection facilities (Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles), Certified emissions inspection stations (Georgia EPD, Georgia's Clean Air Force), Active car and truck safety inspection stations (Hawaii Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Safety Office), Air Team testing site locator (Illinois EPA), Clean Air Car Check stations (Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles / IDEM), Brake tag (motor vehicle inspection) stations (Louisiana State Police (via braketaglocations.com)), VEIP service locations (Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration), Inspection station locator (Massachusetts RMV and MassDEP (Massachusetts Vehicle Check)), Motor vehicle inspection station directory (Missouri State Highway Patrol), Inspection station locator (North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles), List of all vehicle inspection stations located within New Jersey (New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission), Facilities Licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles (New York State Department of Motor Vehicles), Licensed emission stations (Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles), Brake Tag Stations (City of New Orleans), E-Check station locations (Ohio EPA), Clean Air Station locations (Oregon Department of Environmental Quality), DEQ Too participating sites (Oregon Department of Environmental Quality), Safety inspection station locator (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation), Official inspection station lists (Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles), Active vehicle inspection station locator (Texas Department of Public Safety), Permitted emissions inspection stations (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber and Cache county health departments), AVIP station locator (Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles), Emissions inspection station listing (Virginia Department of Environmental Quality), MVI stations, all counties (West Virginia State Police) and Vehicle Inspection Program facilities (Wisconsin Department of Transportation). Each card carries its own last-checked date.

Where the list comes from

Inspection is run state by state, and so are the lists. Some states publish theirs as open data, some only through a search box on the motor vehicle agency’s website, some as a PDF, and a few not at all. This directory reads each state in whatever form that state publishes, and says on every listing which agency the record came from. Nothing is taken from a business listing site or a map provider.

The states differ in what they publish. California’s Bureau of Automotive Repair publishes a license number, the date the license was first issued and the date it expires, so a California listing can say whether the license is current today. Most other states publish only the list of stations currently approved, with no dates, so for them "listed" means "on the state’s current list", and the listing says exactly that rather than implying a license period nobody published.

Safety inspection, emissions testing, and the annual truck inspection are three different things

A state safety inspection checks a registered vehicle against the state’s own standard, usually once a year. A state emissions test checks exhaust or the on-board diagnostic system, and is usually required only in the counties that do not meet federal air quality standards. Many stations do both; some do one. Each listing shows which the state records.

The annual federal inspection of a commercial motor vehicle is a separate requirement again. Under 49 CFR 396.17(c) a motor carrier may not use a commercial motor vehicle unless each component identified in Appendix A to Part 396 has passed an inspection in the preceding 12 months. 396.17(e) allows a commercial garage, fleet leasing company, truck stop or similar business to perform that inspection as the carrier’s agent, provided it employs qualified inspectors as required by 396.19. There is no federal register of such businesses, which is why this category is built from the state lists instead.

396.23(a)(1) works the other way round: where a vehicle is subject to a mandatory inspection programme that the FMCSA Administrator has determined to be as effective as 396.17, the carrier meets 396.17 through that programme, including inspections at commercial facilities authorised by a state. Whether a particular state’s programme has been so determined is not in any register this directory reads, so ask the station or the state agency.

Heavy-duty and commercial stations

For a truck, the useful question is whether the station can take the vehicle at all. Several states say so in their own data: North Carolina marks heavy-duty capable stations, Missouri lists the vehicle types each station may inspect (CMV among them), Louisiana records the vehicle codes a station is approved for, New Jersey states diesel capability, and Texas, which since 1 January 2025 no longer inspects non-commercial vehicles, lists only stations that inspect commercial ones, and Illinois’s Department of Transportation publishes the public lanes of its commercial vehicle safety inspection programme. Those stations carry a Heavy-duty / CMV tag here.

A station without the tag is not necessarily unable to take a truck. It means the state did not say. For states whose lists carry no vehicle-type information, ring before you drive over.

What this directory does not know

  • Not every state runs an inspection programme. Many states have no periodic safety inspection for registered vehicles and no emissions testing, so there is no list to read. New Hampshire repealed its programme with effect from 31 January 2026 and the change has been in court since; it is left out until the position is settled.
  • Some states run a programme but publish no list. Virginia’s State Police say plainly that no list of its roughly 4,200 stations is published. Maine’s list is not available in a form this directory can use.
  • Phone numbers depend on the state. California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina publish none in the lists read here, so their listings show none. Nothing is filled in from elsewhere.
  • Individual inspector qualifications under 49 CFR 396.19 are not published anywhere. That is a question to ask the station.
  • One source is unofficial. The Louisiana list is read from a site that republishes the State Police brake-tag station list with its station numbers. Those listings are marked, and the State Police remain the authority.

How to use the list

Pick a state, then a county. On a state page the search box narrows the list by name, street or town, and the tags show safety, emissions, and heavy-duty capability where the state records them. Open a listing for the full record: the agency, the date it was last checked, and a link to the state’s own list so you can confirm it yourself.

Reference pages on these rules

4 pages, written against the regulation text

Questions about vehicle inspection

Is a state inspection the same as the annual DOT inspection?
Not automatically. The federal annual inspection is 49 CFR 396.17. A state programme satisfies it only where the FMCSA Administrator has determined it to be as effective as 396.17 (49 CFR 396.23(a)(1)). Ask the station or the state agency whether that applies, and keep the paperwork 396.21 requires.
Why does a station show no phone number?
Because the state list it comes from has no phone column. California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina publish none in the lists read here. Nothing is added from other sources.
Which stations can inspect a truck?
The ones tagged Heavy-duty / CMV, where the state records that. Where a state records no vehicle types, the listing makes no claim either way.
Why is my state missing?
Either the state has no inspection programme, or it runs one but does not publish the list. The hub text above names the cases known so far.
Do stations pay to be listed?
No. Every station on a state list is included, and the order is not for sale.

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