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Sneaky Drivers Dodging Toll Cameras Cost Authorities Millions
WSJ ^ | 10 Mar 2024 | Scott Calvert

Posted on 03/10/2024 9:19:21 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Officials look to crack down on James Bond-style tag flippers, other means to obstruct license plates; ‘This is about fairness’

Mechanical devices that can hide a driver’s tag at the push of a button are sold online for a couple hundred bucks. Other drivers are getting creative on the cheap, jury-rigging their plates with face masks or duct tape.

Some drivers have power-washed paint off their plates or covered them with a range of household items such as leaf-shaped magnets

“Our Motorized Stealth Plate Flippers, allows you to flip your license plates 180°, James Bond style!”

New York State Thruway cameras recorded a motorcyclist reaching around to cover his bike’s license plate and spotted a car whizzing by with a Cheetos bag taped over the Florida-issued tag.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; tollway
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Organizations such as AAA have sued toll agencies who take toll money and put it toward expenses other than the roadways.

The courts side with the agency despite the egregious misdirection of funds.

61 posted on 03/10/2024 1:08:20 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: steve86
The intersection cameras determine the traffic flow and the signal sequencing so there’s hardly any wait anyway unless opposing traffic is entering.

The lights in my neighborhood have no such traffic sensors and they're painfully long.

62 posted on 03/10/2024 1:12:28 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This was not a problem when they actually employed toll booth operators.


63 posted on 03/10/2024 1:27:44 PM PDT by Revel
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To: BobL

More BS
Keep it simple...

Attempt to back up your statement —”Sales Tax on gasoline (most states don’t)”

Show the states without a gas tax.


64 posted on 03/10/2024 1:35:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

24 States require a front plate. Previous to Utah (which does not) I lived In CA, NV, and HI which all require a front plate.


65 posted on 03/10/2024 1:37:34 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: DUMBGRUNT

You guys lose, CALIFORNIA SUCKS when it comes to gasoline prices.

Put as much lipstick on your pig as you want, it’s NO SECRET that the people in California are getting ROBBED BLIND by their government every time they stop at a gas pump.

...that simple.


66 posted on 03/10/2024 1:42:10 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: T.B. Yoits

—”Organizations such as AAA have sued toll agencies who take toll money and put it toward expenses other than the roadways.”

In Illinois, they piss the money away on A helicopter for the toll commission, crazy money for a specially made table for commission meetings, and on and on...
And do not overlook all the coat holders and unemployed brother-in-laws in need of a high-paying position...


67 posted on 03/10/2024 1:44:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: BobL

Oh wow!

Tourette syndrome across a keyboard!

Your shrink will not take your call, so check with your local undocumented pharmacist, cash only, they are waiting to help you!


68 posted on 03/10/2024 1:53:54 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

LOL, give it up, NO ONE here wants to move to California.

Maybe go work for Zelensky, you’ll get more support here if you do that.


69 posted on 03/10/2024 2:01:44 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: adorno
People are already paying for road maintenance with their gas taxes and with their license plate fees.

Those taxes are not being used for road maintenance and upgrade. The politicians spend it on buying votes then turn around and tell the population they need more money for roads but will take that as well.

Nobody seems to demand an force the governments to at least publish the tax intake for roads along with the expenditures.Politicians would just refuse anyway since they will not let the taxpayers know what criminals the politicians really are.

70 posted on 03/10/2024 3:15:28 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: HYPOCRACY

In WA state, they get you coming and going... front and back plates are shown.


71 posted on 03/10/2024 5:14:41 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What are these FLOCK cameras my small town use now?


72 posted on 03/10/2024 5:16:06 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: mabarker1

Add $.50 a gallon in WA, it is a carbon tax... So $1 a gallon.


73 posted on 03/10/2024 5:22:30 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Deepeasttx

In Florida, they add it to your registration costs. You have to pay fine of no registration.


74 posted on 03/10/2024 5:50:31 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Dodging Toll Cameras Cost Authorities Millions

The "authorities" are corrupt to the bone. Eff them!

75 posted on 03/11/2024 10:19:43 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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