Posted on 09/22/2017 7:57:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I hate these tolls in states that do not have toll booths.
It is a royal pain
I am disputing some of these charges myself.
It’s very confusing, when you are out of state, in a place with differing systems of toll collections.
What ever happened to paying cash to a human being in a toll booth??? I don’t drive on toll roads very often, but last time I did, there was a human being you could go to, if you didn’t have the transponder system.
I’m sure the transponders work well for locals who use the roads a lot, and are familiar with how their local systems work. But out of towners in an unfamiliar area, will be hit with this, because who can keep with so many different types of transponders, toll rates, etc.
If you replace the rental car’s EZ-Pass with your own, probably no one will ever know. You’ll get the charges on your own account.
human employees are expensive
Back when I was renting all the time the cars didn’t have them so I took my EZ Pass with me. You weren’t supposed to, but it worked out great.
I recently rented a large SUV for a family vacation and the agent tried to sell me on renting a GPS when the vehicle had a navigation system, something like $30.00 for the week. Same with satellite radio, the vehicle already had it but they tried to get me to pay extra for it. I’d imagine people on expense accounts aren’t paying close attention and they get away with stupid uncharges like that all the time. So, they invent this “convenience” with the tolls and mark it up all to heck. The rental SUV had one of those things on the windshield, so I suppose I was fortunate that the route did not take me through any tolls. Toll roads are very uncommon here, to the point that I can drive seven hours and not drive on one.
Yes, as far as I know, NC only has one toll road near Raleigh so far.
This whole toll thing is a scam. We have no toll roads where I live and travel, but I remember being forced to drop piles of change in baskets at toll booths back in the ‘70s when I made a trip back east through Illinois, New York, Mass. and other eastern states. Illinois was the worst offender with toll booths every few miles or so. I had never experienced anything like it before or since.
BTTT
Of course they’ll never do it, but tolls should only be charged to people living IN THE STATE where the tolls are administered. That little change would would, finally, force tolling to be ACCOUNTABLE.
Just be sure to wrap the rental’s transponder in a couple of layers of tin foil.
Seriously.
We have had the option many times on rental cars to get the transponder to be able to drive on toll roads. We decline it and don’t drive on the toll roads. Problem solved.
I learned that the hard way. The transponder looked closed but when I went to pay the human at the booth he said the transponder already paid. Spent hours dealing with budget rental car crooks getting my money back. waste of time.
It’s only beginning in WNY
Sleazy-Pass.
Here’s some low hanging fruit for Schmuck Schumer.
When the charge hit my credit card some weeks later I called the 800# on the statement and adamantly told them I'd only pay that fee for the days we were actually charged tolls. They said that using the license reader even one days charges for each day of the rental like the electronic device. The extra charges were eventually reversed as a "courtesy".
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