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.
I don't know how you figure benefits raise an annual salary of 30K to 90K, on average it is just 50 percent of base salary or in your example 15K additional and you forgot to mention the payback time for the equipment and added costs of mailing the bill and the second third and forth reminders to pay.
From my experience it's a shell game of hide the costs that the vendors/contractors use to get municipalities to sign a contract with them to run the system. Greater savings comes in the far distant future when all the current workers have retired and there is no more liability for paying retirements.
