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The Illinois Vehicle Inspection Law is administered and regulated by the Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Traffic Safety. Inspections are conducted at Illinois Official Testing Stations, which are privately owned businesses that serve as agents of the State of Illinois.

Mandatory Inspection Program

Bockman’s Auto, Truck & Tire is the only certified Inspection Lane in DeKalb County:

Intrastate vehicles subject to the law include:

  • Vehicles registered for a gross weight of more than 8,000 pounds;
  • Vehicles which pull a trailer with a gross weight or registered gross weight of more than 8,000 pounds;
  • Trailers with a gross weight of more than 5,000 pounds;
  • Motor buses (includes religious organization buses, buses registered as charitable vehicles, senior citizen transport buses, and school buses);
  • Medical transport vehicles (includes ambulances, rescue vehicles, and medical carriers);
  • Tow trucks;
  • Contract carriers transporting employees in the course of their employment in a vehicle designed to carry 15 or fewer passengers; and
  • First division vehicles which are used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit.

Vehicles subject to the law must be inspected every six months.

Truck-tractors, semitrailers, and property-carrying vehicles registered for a gross weight of more than 10,000 pounds but less than 26,001 pounds must be inspected at least once every 12 months.

School buses and first division vehicles that are used for a purpose that requires a school bus driver permit must be inspected every six months or 10,000 miles whichever occurs first and must provide a brake inspection sheet at the time of the test.

For trucks, truck tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and buses (except school buses, religious organization buses, buses registered as charitable vehicles, buses designed to transport 11-15 persons and senior citizen transport buses), the inspection shall be conducted in accordance with Appendix G to Part 396 procedures. Required safety equipment (e.g., emergency warning devices and fire extinguisher) is subject to inspection during an Appendix G inspection.

For all other vehicles, the safety inspection includes the testing of brakes, lights, horn, reflectors, rear vision mirrors, exhaust system, safety chains, window glass, frame, axles, wheels, tires, steering, and suspension.