Leno's Law

Had a Fedex shipment show as "delivered" via a text message - no package anywhere around the house. I called and was told the driver verified the delivery was correct. "How did he do that," I asked. "He verified the address with his GPS." "Did he LOOK at the number on the house and on the curb?" "What do you mean?" she replied, "the GPS shows it was delivered to the correct address, somebody must have taken it!" Apparently they pay NO attention to the actual address numbers on the house/curb. If the GPS says they are there, they're there! I hung up and walked down the street to find my package sitting on the porch of the house 3 doors down. I called Fedex back and a different person apologized, saying, "That's been happening a lot."

 

Yeah I shipped some wheels through them and they absolutely trashed them to the point that I had to file a claim. That was super fun. I finally got my insurance claim two months later after fighting with them, speaking with supervisors, etc.

I haven't had to do this with the post office... here's hoping it's an easier task, but I HIGHLY doubt it.

 

Give it eight months, maybe it'll show up like my books did.

 

Sort of related...

Is there a way without using brute force to remove the gauge lenses for cleaning? Mine have 35 years of oily fog behind them.

 

Not a great day for Leno's law. The CA Senate Appropriations Committee voted today to "move to suspense" SB712, which stops all public debate and is often used to kill bills in back room deals.

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/05/16/understanding-how-a-california-bill-dies-without-public-debate/

Its not "dead", but a lot of bills are killed this way -- and there is nothing that can be done aside from lobbyists. MAYBE Leno and SEMA are throwing money around. We will never know.

 

Sad, but that thing was dead on arrival. I don't care who was backing it, Sacramento doesn't have the votes and could care less about what makes sense. Follow the money, and Leno simply didn't offer enough (or any?) to the lobbyists and bureaucrats to undermine their environmentalist voters

 

Yeah, seems absurd that anyone would think that such a bill would actually have ANY support from other than the insignificant number of folks (like us) who own cars in that category. Sounds crazy! What will they think of next, remaking Snow White? Oh...wait...

 

It wouldn’t be the first time that something non-sensical has happened in the state Senate. But this doesn’t align at all with the previous step. Around a week prior to this suspension thing, it passed committee 12-2. I hope we are just reading too much into the sausage making process. It seems awfully strange that a bill that passed committee so overwhelmingly would suddenly have nobody but ghosts defending it. That doesn’t seem to add up.

https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2025/16/milestone-collector-cars-lenos-law-passes-senate-committee

One angle I heard them taking is that they basically need to remove the roller tests and go OBDII-only for emissions testing. That means any car built before the late 1990s couldn’t be tested. Apparently the number of tests of older cars is very low, so low that many smog shops won’t even do them any more. They aren’t profitable. And when they do perform these tests, the price is like 4x that for a newer car.

If you can stand to listen to a long description of what’s going on, this guy’s YouTube channel has all the details.

 

Hmmm, interesting. I have to admit the bill makes sense to me when viewed from the emissions testing/cost effectiveness point of view for the shops.!

 

sad that it has to be that way, i never understood how someone can start in politics and be worth nothing and in a few years be millionaires.

but i do not like bring that stuff up, you guys out there have it tough. the car i have now start life in California and now is in NY and outside of having the high idle bypass it is stock, here in NYS i only have safety inspection and as i am writing this i am planning on removing all the emissions and putting on headers and straight pipes with no worries. there is a big sticker on my windshield saying the car is California emission compliant right were my NYS stickers have to go lol i am not going to remove it the sticker but everything else i am thinking about. i hope you guys get something in place to help you keep your cars on the road.

 

That's the way NYS does it
If you have a OBD2 plug built in your car it's tested if not safety test only