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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tdiller wrote:
Here in the state of Illinois come January you will need an ezpass for each vehicle. Used to be I could list all my vehicles on one pas (motorcycle, truck, car and wife's motorcycle). I could leave the pass in one vehicle and the state would figure out via the plate the account to bill. Now with needing one for each vehicle they will be getting 40 dollars each held in reserve for each pass. I may not use the tollway much so that $40 each could sit a long time.
I don't believe this is quite accurate. People that routinely drive through without a transponder are going to be charged more. These people have multiple cars and one transponder for them. Since there is no penalty, they don't bother switching the transponder to the vehicle they are driving.
The Tollway Authority prefers that each vehicle has its own transponder to reduce the amount of times that they have to look up a plate. If each vehicle had one, it would raise 15 million for the Tollway Authority. As far as I know, they haven't said the number of times it will take to put you into the "penalty" category. The bottom line is they aren't yet requiring each vehicle to have it's own transponder, but I'm sure it's coming.
