Posted on 12/16/2015 11:08:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Well, that’s one more reason for our family to skip Florida again.
Our toll roads are clearly marked. Tourists think they can blow through them because they are in a rental.
Snowbirds: bag your quota early.
Disagree with you-— I was coming back to Orlando Airport on the FL Turnpike and paying a bunch of tolls. On the exit to I-4 the sign for Cash payers was confusing and I veered right and could not get back due to the divider. Since I had a rental car they hit me later in the mail with a $15.00 penalty for a $1.00 missed toll by mistake. Also on 528 in Orlando there are like 3-4 toll booths for a few miles drive. Its stupid and a rip off. I hope they suffer from deserved loss of revenue from all those manned rip off toll booths. Annoying crap by govt...— I know cause it happened more than once to me in FLoriduh.
I rented a Toyota Corolla out of the Ft. Myers airport for $17/day in 2010. I don’t remember any special fees, and I didn’t have to pay any tolls that I recall. Frankly, it was my second best rental car experience ever. (Best was when the company was out of mid-sized sedans and gave me a free upgrade to a Cadillac).
I just have one thing to say here ... “ ’ “ “ ’ “
WTF - I know JR&Co are working on this but sheesh!
Ft Myers and Naples area not subject to the tolls nearly as much as in Orlando area. Why cant they just charge auto rental customers like $10 fee for unlimited tolls during the entire rental duration? How much $$ do they have to rip off via annoying toll stops from visitors and tourists?
You didn’t know that everything inOrlando is designed to separate tourists from their money? Haha.
I never go there.
The only time I got hit when traveling in FL was when I kept throwing change into an unmanned toll. The light wouldn’t turn green. Five or six cars in front of me kept trying to feed Florida money but no green light for any of us.
Telling them them their equipment is broken, apparently, doesn’t help. It didn’t in my case.
(Jeb) Bush’s Fault?
I travel in FL all the time for business.
I go thru the CASH lanes in my rental cars.
I avoid both the daily service fess and the expense report nightmare of getting those charges LONG after the trip report was filed.
This is much ado about nothing - or stoopid renters.
This is the “baggage fees” of the rental car industry. I’ve had a rental company charge a fee for every day that you have the car for the use of their electronic tag. I can understand having overhead and paying a reasonable amount for the convenience. But to use a toll road 2 days out of a 10 day trip (to and from airport) for a total of about $3 in tolls, but be hit with a $7-8 / day fee?
It’s just robbery.
Yes, it’s “disclosed.” Doesn’t mean they aren’t taking advantage.
Yheb!’s fault.....
Care to 'revise' your story?
"All Turnpike tolls are collected electronically between the U.S. 1 (Exit 1) and County Line Road (Exit 47) interchanges in Miami-Dade County, on the Sawgrass Expressway in Broward County, on a portion of the Veterans Expressway in Hillsborough County, and on the I-4 Connector in Tampa, and cash tolls are not accepted. Motorists will use either SunPass or TOLL-BY-PLATE, and everyone will enjoy the benefit of paying their toll without having to stop."
http://www.floridasturnpike.com/tools_paytoll.cfm
So if you are saying that you pay cash tolls on your rental cars in Miami, well, it appears you aren't really being truthful.
$1.66!
Next month it will probably be $1.71. Then $1.78.
Or they could switch to the EZ Pass system that almost every other toll state recognizes. But that would make sense.
Cash tolls are around the Orlando area— you know — to rip off those tourists and visitors.
I rented a car from Alamo in 2012 and had no extra toll fee. I also have a rental for 2016 from Enterprise with no toll fee.
Agree Just pay your tolls and we don’t have this problem. Pretty easy no?
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