Posted on 05/24/2016 8:08:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Good advice for all of us, regarding automatic bill paying systems which sweep money from our accounts. While its convienent, what if someone is overcharging you and takes your money before you can review the bill??
My 87 yr old neighbor in TX got a bill for two trips near Leander. She never goes further than the church, grocery store, or beauty shop. Leander is over 125 miles from here.
See, this is where there should have been a dealership who was aghast that Texas tolls charged someone for their tolls and would have been highly concerned to ensure that not only that she was reimbursed, but also something a bit extra for the hassle and inconvenience.
Instead, it was ‘Oh, no, that couldn’t happen, we have tags on every car, blah, blah blah.’
Seems to me if I was a lawyer in Texas who wouldn’t mind filing a few dozen nuisance lawsuits, I’d be on the phone to her.
I heard about a guy in Chicago who was ticked off at his neighbor, so he stole the guys IPASS out of his car and stuck it on an airport shuttle bus that goes thru a toll gate several times an hour. Rhousands of dollars in charges accumulted but were waived after it was clear the guy had been pranked.
Should change that vanity plate to something less ubiquitous like ASSMAN.
Toll roads are unTexan and maybe unAmerican with the exceptions of yankees.
Toll roads are the epitome of capitalism and quite American. To have a public / private consortium step in to fund the billions of dollars in up-front costs associated with road building to serve routes where public funding is not available on its own is a great solution and there ABSOLUTELY has to be a profit reward as an ROI.
Optional toll roads that provide more direct or faster moving routes are a convenience for which I am willing to pay. Thinking someone should put up the funds in the absence of a generous profit is un-American. Those who don’t like toll roads can avoid them.
Never give anyone access to your checking or savings accounts. Credit card, ok, and it’s easy to refute and get the amount credited back. Either I write the paper checks, or use a CC for payment.
The toll roads referenced, a Fascist partnership between elite ruling class insider private and governmental controlled corporations, with State Bureaucracies of appointed Public "Servants" are entirely unAmerican, unethical, immoral and criminal.
Six weeks after returning a lease vehicle to the dealership, I received a Toll Roads violation bill with penalties in the mail. I never used toll roads, but this one was right by the dealership. So ... some salesman used my returned car as a loaner and took it on the toll road figuring I’d get stuck with the charge. Dealers and car salesmen have very few ethics IMO.
I faxed the Toll Road agency a copy of the form that showed it had been returned to Tustin Lexus two weeks before the violation and was no longer my responsibility but there was never any apology for my inconvenience.
Access to billing information can be dangerous, while convenient.
Just had a charge to my AMEX card which AMEX claimed they never made.
Somebody made it.
In NJ can not enter or leave the state without paying tolls
WE ARE TRAPPED LIKE RATS ........!!!!
The Nissan dealer did nothing wrong.
It was the toll company’s cameras that took the photos and their personnel who made the errors.
I bought 5 autos from Grubb’s Nissan during the ‘80s-’90s.
The same think happens here in Hampton Roads.
Good advice....I never give anyone access to any of my bank accounts, period.
Just rename some bridges and tunnels: checkpoint Holland, Checkpoint Lincoln and Checkpoint Memorial Bridge. Of course once one gets to the other side hell holes, they have their own extortions.
I never understood how those states have financial problems with all the taxes and other fees. Property taxes in NJ are some of the highest in the nation. Add on sales and income taxes and one may as well be working for that state, without a pension of course though.
Funny, never had that problem driving the freeways here.
” To have a public / private consortium step in to fund the billions of dollars in up-front costs associated with road building to serve routes where public funding is not available on its own is a great solution and there ABSOLUTELY has to be a profit reward as an ROI.”
LOL. Tell that to people that have to live under the BACKROOM DEALS, many still secret, that, among other things, PREVENT the state from upgrading parallel roads. Roughly 40 cents per mile in this one case:
http://ontruck.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/407-rates.jpg
I’m glad this crap keeps failing and hopefully it ends once and for all.
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