It's not unusual for the girl to take her car in for inspection and get told the registration is expired. On the upside, in PA ya can renew it instantly on line. The dumb thing is we never get the renewal notice from the DMV.

In a related stroke of genius they recently did away with the stickers for the plates and will no longer mail you a paper registration. The idea is about cutting costs on their end and ya gotta go print yer own paper doc. They then proceeded to raise the registration cost to help defray the cost of outfitting cop cars with technology that will automatically read your plate and check to see if its valid.

Probably checks for unpaid parking tickets too.