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?
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.
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.
Modifying your plate mounting to flip them or otherwise make them unreadable is a felony.
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.
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.
If you make a tax too high, people will evade it. Look at Kansas with it’s high cost of tagging vehicles. At least 20% of Kansas residents are tagging in other states.
Here in Austin, motorcyclists found that if they ride the dotted line separating the lanes as they pass under the toll stations the cameras can’t get any pictures of their license plates. Don’t know if that has been fixed, but I see lots of bikers doing it.
I want online webcams in every tax-paid employee’s workplace.