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OhBlackWater
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Aug 18, 2015

Florida Toll Roads

So last year I went to Florida and towed my travel trailer behind me. I went through many toll booths that said toll by mail or something like that. I have never gotten a bill and the FL website site says you will get a bill in the mail. I don't mind paying what I owe, but I am sure not going to pay a years worth of overinflated admin fees and other nonsense fees. Do I keep waiting for a bill like the website says?
  • belfert wrote:
    2oldman wrote:
    I'd forget about it. Ya gotta love the technology to be able to capture your vehicle but then use paper mail to bill you.
    How else are they supposed to bill you? The DMV license plate database doesn't exactly have a credit card to charge. Even if they had email addresses people tend to change those more often than they change their mailing address. Besides, if you got en email saying you owed a toll wouldn't you think it is a scam?
    I don't change my email address. I have a textable cell phone, same number for years. If they can't figure out electronic billing presentment, then let them sit in the 20th century for years. Governments are good at that.

    If I knew I went through a toll booth sans paying I wouldn't think it was a scam.

    From what's being said here, not only do they send a paper bill, they apparently don't bother to text, email, call, or follow up with ANY kind of reminder/collection process. And then everyone says all kinds of bad things will happen. That's extortion.
  • So I just called the toll by plate:

    "To log in with your transponder number press 1
    To log in with a phone number press 2"

    No way to speak to a human, isn't technology great?
  • Lots of paranoia.

    If you are regularaly skipping out on tolls to the order of thousands of dollars over many trips, then they might harrrass you when you go back into florida.

    One trip from over a year ago, they aren't likely to bother you if you go back into florida. Even if it does come up, they aren't hauling you off to jail. They will likely notify you that you have an unpaid toll and to get it taken care of.
  • Hhhhmmm, not sure of some of this info...
    I have a Sunpass and travel all over the state, even through EPass areas in Orlando, and have never had a problem.

    I do recall having an old transponder a few years ago, that apparently quit working. We received a letter with a picture stating that they were deducting the toll from my account, which alerted me to get a new transponder...

    No problems on any toll roads in FL with Sunpass, however I have never had an EPass, so maybe the people with the problems were using an EPass transponder, which I believe is a local Orlando thing. SunPass is state of FL...

    I also believe that many or most states, now have the ability to share records, so you might want to look up your drivers license on your states data base and see if it shows...

    In truth, a phone call will not prove much. IOW, you can call FL and ask, however it can come down to a particular agency...
    I doubt FL would throw an out of state tourist in jail for a toll violation...

    In the past, even different counties were not on the states' data base, that has changed...
    How do I know?
    I am the reason that all FL drivers licenses end with a "-0"...mine ends with a "-1", as far as I know, still the only one in the state. ;-)
  • OhBlackWater wrote:
    Chris Bryant wrote:
    https://www.sunpass.com/violationsMissedToll


    That's for driving through a Sunpass lane without a Sunpass transponder. I went through the lanes that said toll by plate.


    Ah- after browsing the Toll By Plate website I see it's another wonderful privatization effort by our peach of a Governor- it's a private company that does the reading and sends the bill.
    I say forget it- they have a responsibility to contact you- as long as you are the registered owner. If they cannot do their job, they will be just like all the other wondrous privatizations in this state- take profit, pay the workers less, and laugh...
  • Four pages on missing a toll in Florida ... believe Monkey44 here, If I was gonna assist or take on (take your pick) an issue, it would definitely pick a bigger one than missing a toll.

    And, if I do not get a bill, I'm gonna ignore it. Believe that too.

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