Motor vehicle inspections will restart in Massachusetts on Wednesday, days after a global technology outage that started last week forced state officials to cancel all inspections, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced.
In a brief statement Tuesday night, the department said the Registry of Motor Vehicles would continue working with its vendor, OPUS, and inspection sites to resolve any remaining issues. As a result of the days-long outage, the RMV is giving more time to vehicle owners who failed inspection and need a re-test.
Anyone whose re-inspection date expired between July 19, when the global outage began, and July 31, will have until Aug. 10 to get a free re-inspection.
Inspections were available for motorcycle owners during the outage.
The outage also forced the cancellation of “non-urgent” medical procedures and appointments at Mass. General Brigham and of hundreds of flights in and out of Boston Logan Airport.
A defective software update sent by CrowdStrike to its customers disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and other critical services Friday, affecting about 8.5 million machines running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The painstaking work of fixing it has often required a company’s IT crew to manually delete files on affected machines.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
