I drove through an EZ Pass toll booth in New Hampshire in a rental car, when on vacation a while back, and the EZ Pass didn’t register, and an alarm went off. I just kept driving; I didn’t know what else to do. The toll got added to my rental car bill.
I don’t travel much on toll roads. But it seems that they have put us in a position, in which we have to take initiative to get a pass so they can bill us. They are making it so you can’t just pay cash toll to an actual human being if you drive a toll road. It’s up to us to understand the technology they are using, which can be different in different states. All so they can compel us to pay them for the privilege of driving on the road.
I post too soon. I meant to say, we are paying for the privilege of driving on roads which in some cases were already paid for. And what about the gas taxes we all pay; don’t those go for upkeep of the roads? What’s with the spread of toll roads around the country?
I was driving through Virginia when they had a lot of road construction going on and I got routed off the regular lanes and into an EZ Pass lane w/o realizing it - got the bill, with penalty added, in the mail a week later.
How much was added to your rental car bill?
I drove through a toll booth in a rental car and tried to pay cash as I did not want to pay an additional $20 ‘convenience’ fee to the rental car company. Even though the rental car’s ezpass device was closed it was still picked up before I could pay. It took weeks to get a refund from the rental car company.