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Posted on 10/8/26 at 12:32 pm
Posted by WillWorkForLSUTicket
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 12:32 pm
I've never heard them called brake tags until the recent legislation started hitting the news. All my life I've heard "inspection stickers" and nothing else. Is it a generation thing? I'm 44, by the way.

Am I alone in this?
Posted by madamsquirrel
The big somewhere out there
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 12:32 pm to
No nola no care
Posted by Jay31
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 12:33 pm to
It’s a NOLA thing
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:03 pm to
Neutral ground
Posted by Lakefront-Tiger
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:07 pm to
NOLA thing. Orleans has their own tags, and in the 70-90's they actually made you slam the brakes part of the check.
Posted by GoShoughYourself
Member since May 2026
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:07 pm to
Makin groceries
Posted by F1y0n7h3W4LL
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:09 pm to
Ever been to Orleans or Jefferson parish?
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:10 pm to
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NOLA thing. Orleans has their own tags, and in the 70-90's they actually made you slam the brakes part of the check.


That was part of every inspection sticker in Louisiana. The guy performs a brake check when he gets in it and pulls it forward some. That’s part of the reason why they get in the vehicle.
Posted by Spankum
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:11 pm to
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and in the 70-90's they actually made you slam the brakes part of the check



They were supposed to all be doing this. Through the decades of my childhood, they weren’t allowed to do inspections if it was raining and this was the reason.
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:11 pm to
One of many ways New Orleans is different from the rest of the state.

Just like “making groceries”.
Posted by CleverUserName
Member since Oct 2016
18426 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:13 pm to
Sorry. I live in the free state of MS that has eliminated inspection stickers. can't speak to it.
This post was edited on 10/8/26 at 1:13 pm
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:17 pm to
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Through the decades of my childhood, they weren’t allowed to do inspections if it was raining and this was the reason.


That carried forward until they got rid of them.
Posted by Spankum
The Sip
Member since Jan 2007
63879 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:17 pm to
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the free state of MS that has eliminated inspection stickers


One of the greatest successes of the current governor!
Posted by slidingstop
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:21 pm to
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Makin groceries



"hows your mom and dem?"
Posted by loogaroo
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Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:24 pm to
quote:

Makin groceries


Snow Ball vs Snow Cone.
Posted by Wayne Campbell
Aurora, IL
Member since Oct 2011
7561 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 1:49 pm to
quote:

I live in the free state of MS that has eliminated inspection stickers


Did they eliminate the fees? Because Texas eliminated the stickers, but we still have the fees.
Posted by CleverUserName
Member since Oct 2016
18426 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 2:13 pm to
quote:

Did they eliminate the fees? Because Texas eliminated the stickers, but we still have the fees.


Yep. As far as inspections go.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 10/8/26 at 2:21 pm to
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Just like “making groceries”.

From the French, faire, to do, or to make.

As in, “After making groceries at Dorignac’s, we went by my momma’s house on N. Labarre.”
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6520 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 2:31 pm to
quote:

I've never heard them called brake tags until the recent legislation started hitting the news. All my life I've heard "inspection stickers" and nothing else. Is it a generation thing? I'm 44, by the way.

It’s a New Orleans thing.

I’ve got a bigger question. If emission tests are required to retain Federal funding, how is it only five Parishes have to tote the load? Can such an unequal application of the rules be constitutionally supported.

They will fail you on an older vehicle with a code that doesn’t immediately indicate an emissions issue, but might in the future. Give you thirty or sixty days to do unnecessary expensive repairs on a possibility of a future problem.
This post was edited on 10/10/26 at 2:52 pm
Posted by Bourre
Da Parish
Member since Nov 2012
24448 posts
Posted on 10/8/26 at 3:18 pm to
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Ever been to Orleans or Jefferson parish?


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