Heard a rumor today, that certain emissions centers have instituted a daily quota. One is limiting itself to 160 cars.
Yes... they are only allowed to do tests on 160 cars a day. Apparently, they're too efficient.
How efficient?
A customer complained that he passed by after lunch, and they were closed for the day.
Let's recap: You open at 8:00 am. You manage to drive a car into the booth, attach the testing equipment, get the probes warmed up, do the emissions test (which requires the car to be revved through a simulated driving cycle... instead of idling for a few seconds), take a picture, detach the probes, drive the car out of the booth, print out the test results and collect payment in just two minutes? Either LTO testing centers have managed to breed a new class of supermen who can catch speeding bullets with their teeth, or there's something scwewy going on.
A time-motion study has convinced embattled LTO Secretary Virginia Torres that there's something fishy about all of this, and she's been closing down centers that process cars way too fast.
Unfortunately, the testers have found a way to not trigger alarm bells. Just get it all over with in the morning and take the rest of the day off.
Makes sense, right?
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