Nebraska is so strict as they got Stung (fined) by the fed's many years back. There were a couple of fairly large outfits laundering high $$ stolen vehicles through a couple of different counties due to the lax inspections at the time. So they went from one extreme tot he other

Having served my sentence as a mechanic in Ohio, I would much prefer an annual safety inspection for registration. There's some really clapped out junk on the roads here.