Posted on 12/16/2015 11:08:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
For my recent trip to Florida, I had purchased a Sun Pass ahead of time, I ended up spending over $70 in tolls for the entire trip over five days.
You think that is something, I live in Florida and got a letter in the mail one day stating that my vehicle went through a toll both in the Orlando area and if I did not send them $ 15.00 a warrant would be issued for my arrest. At the bottom of the message was a photograph of a vehicle I had never seen with my tag number beside it. I called the number listed and told them my vehicle had never been within 50 miles of their toll booth. To make a long story short, they said that It was the collection agency’s mistake. Never stand in the way of a politician and a dollar bill.
O R L A N D O.
Been there? Big city in center of state.
I’ve been to Orlando. Bought a ‘sunpass’ or whatever they call it out of a vending machine, and activated it with my Kindle.
Last time I was in Orlando on my way back home the toll booth coming off of I-4 on to the Florida Turnpike had a cash lane but the booth was unmanned. Pretty easy? No!
for your car or a rental? I’ve never done that for a rental.
Personal car, yes. REALLY easy.
Plus now the GA Peach Pass works as a Sun Pass in FL, so I now have toll reciprocity with FL, just like CCW.
Another time in a rental car I went up the tollway going north of Tampa. I was expecting toll booths but they had none— they bill you by plate #. Well they bill the rental car company who in turn sends you their penalty fee. You have the option at rental agreement to register the plate but its something like $12.00 a day. Rent on business for 3 days thats $36.00 for approx $10.00 worth of actual tolls in my case—
a rip off too. Rental car agencies suck too— why they charge you a very profitable penalty fee. Fluxing game with these Govt/corporate shylark$ and the customer gets fleeced.
I gladly pay the tolls with cash - WHEN I CAN! The problem is that the toll roads sometimes don’t allow that option anymore and the rental car companies are charging more than the tolls actually are and/or fail to provide the electronic toll meters to prevent overcharges.
That’s why you should order a SunPass online and have it sent to your home before going to Florida, it saves a lot of money on tolls over Charge By Plate.
I think all Thruway toll rates are in five-cent increments. If you paid $1.66 then you must have gotten a discount for using E-ZPass or traveling off-peak.
This really is a problem and you cannot pay otherwise. A nice racket. Happened to me in Texas a couple months ago. Rental car company added $25 per day.
Skip it again and again....
Our roads are crowded enough with disgruntled complaining snowbirds.
Watch out for Austin, TX!
A quarter mile from a hotel to the Orlando airport will cost you over $2 and the rental car company surcharge for the length of the rental, not just that one day.
The airport is surrounded by toll roads and greedy Floridians.
She then asked me...if I was staying in the Keys the whole time. I was....She said the Toll Road Pass...was something like $36....the fine you will get will be $20. Point being she saved me some money...because I wasn't driving all over the place..on toll roads.
“Well, that’s one more reason for our family to skip Florida again.”
Indeed. My experience has been that Florida is hot, muggy, and buggy. Not my ideal kind of climate.
Personal car, but it would be cheaper than paying the rental rates around Miami or Orlando, even factoring in the cost of the tag purchase and setup. Just remember to deactivate it and scrape it off when you are through.
In Texas, there are 3 or 4 different toll road providers, but 3 of them have interchange agreements. Some tags interchange with Oklahoma, some don’t. And some of the airport lots link.
Here’s a simple solution: the state simply doesn’t charge rental cars tolls! Duh!
Florida no longer builds major roads that aren’t toll roads. The state is now building a twin center lane in between the other8 lanes of Interstate4 that will be a toll road for rich people. But that’s not all. The cost of the toll will be based on the CURRENT AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC. When traffic is light and you don’t need the toll lanes, then the cost will adjust downward.
Our traitorous congressman John Mica promised that would NEVER happen, then out of the blue, he changed his mind. He is on the federal board that decides these things at their whim.
Most tolls around Orlando have a cash lane, but they purposely under man them so the lines are very long, forcing residents to buy their transponders, which are a whole other level of scam.
This is much ado about nothing - or stoopid renters.
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Cash lanes have been ELIMINATED in many locations... if you don’t have a transponder you cannot pay.
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