Toll By Plate - A Unique Challenge for RVers!
How on Earth is everyone handling all these automatic tolls everywhere throughout the East Coast?? They are now everywhere. As I travel from place to place, they snap my plate and that's that. ...
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valhalla360 wrote:
It's really a no brainer.
If a toll taker makes $30k per year, reality with overhead is more like $90k/yr
Plus you still need to equip the booth with register, credit card machine, heating and cooling, etc...
A reader fully installed might run $20-30k with minimal ongoing costs.
Obviously, they want you to set up an account so the billing is automated because it does cost more to mail you a letter. Hence the higher price if you don't proactively pay it off.
Most till systems are self supporting. Meaning all the tolls go into the toll system. Get rid of the toll system and you don't need money to pay the toll system. We are already paying for the roads through gas, license and other taxes. So there really is no reason for a toll system except to make money. Ide still like to know where all the interest goes from money put into an ipass account? They deduct $20 from my CC when it gets low. But that $20 sits here for a month or 2 before I touch it. Multiply that by a couple million and what do you get in interest?
