Posted on 11/15/2016 8:10:49 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
From grease to specialized license plate covers, drivers try to beat all-electronic tolling license plate capture technology
If you walk, they’ll tax your feet.
Haven’t we paid for these roads, like, ten times over?
The more troubling aspect is that many of these roads are owned and operated by foreign corporations. Research CINTRA.
> Haven’t we paid for these roads, like, ten times over?
It’s not about paying for the road. It’s all about getting money out of your wallet, so the state can decide what to spend it on.
I am not for breaking the law but these dolts saying this is a safety priority is a joke.
And these blackshirts scratch their heads and can't figure out why their tax base is fleeing the state like it's on fire.
Just figure out what Bill Belechik’s tag number is and print a bunch of cardboard copies.
It doesn’t matter. The beauty of a toll is that it’s a voluntary tax. If you don’t want to pay it, don’t drive on that road.
many of these roads are owned and operated by foreign corporations. Research CINTRA.
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Yep, Feds, state and local gov’ts are getting out of
building, owning and investing dollars in roadways.
I bet the politicians do not have to pay any tolls.
They also get a free car too.
The only time I ever beat them was when I drove my car from Seattle (Washington plates) to my new home in Kentucky. I went through tolls with impunity and when we got to KY we changed the plates.
However, I did use my KY plates on tolls in Chicago and figured I’d just pay them all online, except when I tried to, I didn’t have enough information. I never got a notice, but I did get a hit on my credit report for $650 for 9 tolls. I was able to pay half and get it removed.
We now just hit “avoid tolls” on our GPS and everything is fine. Oddly, it doesn’t cost us any more time.
I have no problem with them trying to collect legitimate toll fees. People will always try to cheat the system, this is just another example.
What irritates me is the way some of these toll roads are set up. My mother and I went to a suburb of Dallas last year to meet a cousin. I saw a sign saying the road I was approaching would take me to I 20, the one I needed, so I took that road. AFTER getting on this road, I started seeing toll road signs. NO advance warning at all, no sign saying I was getting on a toll road. No toll booth where we could simply give them our less than 2 bucks.
We were pretty pissed, if I had known it was a toll road I already had a route mapped out, no problem getting there without a toll road costing us extra. I don’t mind a toll road, if I have no choice, but to end up on one without knowing it then having no way to make my own decision on whether to take a toll road or not is infuriating. We finally paid the toll, but not without letting them know we were not happy about the deception.
As far as this article goes, if the toll road is marked as such and you use it, pay the damn toll. Same as people trying to find ways to use the high occupancy vehicle lanes when they don’t have the legal right to do so. I’ve seen news articles showing people with cardboard cutouts of people in the passenger seat. Not long ago one had a cardboard cutout of Trump...This is the same scenario, just trying to cheat the system. Fine the crap outta the bastards...
Modifying your plate mounting to flip them or otherwise make them unreadable is a felony.
A lot of those foreign owners are in financial distress because they made such terrible deals for those roads. U.S. companies were smart enough to stay away from them.
It’s all about keeping Union workers working and building bigger offices for the guys with the gold chains.
Need one of those rotating license plates with different numbers from one of the early Bond films (Thunderball? Goldfinger?)
In order to get greatest benefit, Have the one plate displayed when going through tollbooths tied to Fauxchohontas Lizzie Warren’s address, make sure she gets the bill. And do a LOT of freeway driving before the gig is discovered.
Lizzie would of course claim that a high falutin’ squaw like her only rides with her tribe sidesaddle on a white pony.
Oh, so the fuel taxes I paid, didn't pay for those lanes? Screw HOV lanes. Unless there's a special tag you pay for that goes to construct and maintain those lanes, they shouldn't be able to tell me, the one who paid for it with my fuel taxes, that I can't drive there.
Citation please. In most states an obscured plate is simply a citation, nothing more. Flipping may fall under something different, but obscured is not a felony, otherwise driving on muddy roads would make us all felons. Forged/stolen is probably the only felony for plates.
The west coast has no toll roads. When I went back east for the first time, and encountered tolls, I was amazed the people would put up with such a crappy system. It’s a system created to boost the number of unionized government employees. The funds should be collected via a gas tax.
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