Personal E-Z pass didn`t work at few tolls and I had the rental vehicle (Worth: how much, cost of)

[srikanth311]

Hi All - My personal E-Z pass didn`t work at few tolls on my way to Niagara and I was using rental vehicle. 3 out of 7 times it was showing amber. In this case I assume the rental company will get my violation tickets.
1. How much time will it take if they want to give the violation tickets?
2. Is there any option that I can pay the fee online to avoid the violation tickets?
3. Can I send my statement for the times the toll was collected in the same way? so that i can skip the tickets

Thanks

[MrBitterness]

What does this have to do with Long Island? How about calling the NYS DOT?

[Trolling For Dollars]

Originally Posted by srikanth311

Hi All - My personal E-Z pass didn`t work at few tolls on my way to Niagara and I was using rental vehicle. 3 out of 7 times it was showing amber. In this case I assume the rental company will get my violation tickets.
1. How much time will it take if they want to give the violation tickets?
2. Is there any option that I can pay the fee online to avoid the violation tickets?
3. Can I send my statement for the times the toll was collected in the same way? so that i can skip the tickets

Thanks

Something similar happened to me with a "borrowed" E-Z Pass....my own car with my mom's E-Z Pass. Because I was able to show that I had paid other tolls that day with the E-Z Pass, both before and after the mishap, and because it was a "first time happening", they simply let me send them the toll amount. They also recommended I sign up for my own account because if the mishap can be associated with an account via your license plate they'll take care of it for you if the toll gets missed. The big problem in your case, was an unassociated license plate due to a rental vehicle when the toll got missed. You might want to give the rental company a "heads up" to see if they can simply forward you the violations from E-Z Pass. Once you get that, contact E-Z pass and let them know what happened. As long as you have an account with them, are willing to pay the tolls, and this hasn't happened in the past, they might just let you off the hook for the violation and just hit you for the cost of the tolls you missed. Worth a shot.

[ovi8]

I rented from Enterprise and when I was caught at a red light camera intersection for speeding (they had both cameras there), they notified Enterprise first and Enterprise paid the fine first then notified me. What if it was something less obvious and I wanted to contest it? Too bad. So you definitely want to contact the rental company asap about it if you want to attempt to head off any fines.

[johnrex62]

I recently had a rental from Hertz, equipped with an toll tag, and discovered that the toll system in place in Richmond Virginia does not cooperate with the system Hertz has in place any longer.

VDOT sent the toll violation to Hertz, Hertz disputed the toll on the basis that they were a rental agency and not operating the vehicle and had the toll reassigned to me personally.

I received a toll violation handling fee of $30 from Hertz and am expecting a toll violation citation from VDOT soon for the toll amount plus another violation fee on top of that.


Hertz is reviewing the case now because the counter agent advised me that the car has the toll tag transponder but did not tell me they didnt work in the city I rented at. VDOT has suggested when I get the violation notice to write a dispute on the grounds that I believed my toll transponder was for their system and the rental agency did not provide information otherwise.

I do not know yet if either dispute will win, but if not I will be owing $67 in fines for a $0.70 toll.

[bellakin123]

Originally Posted by srikanth311

Hi All - My personal E-Z pass didn`t work at few tolls on my way to Niagara and I was using rental vehicle. 3 out of 7 times it was showing amber. In this case I assume the rental company will get my violation tickets.
1. How much time will it take if they want to give the violation tickets?
2. Is there any option that I can pay the fee online to avoid the violation tickets?
3. Can I send my statement for the times the toll was collected in the same way? so that i can skip the tickets

Thanks

1. This has nothing to do with LI.
2. It doesn't matter if you're using your personal EZ pass on a rental as long as you're driving the same class car as what you registered on your EZ pass application.
3. Did you have enough funds on the pass to cover all the tolls?
4. If you didn't have enough funds the toll plaza would not have allowed you to pass if there was a gate. Did anyone actually issue you violations?

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Originally Posted by bellakin123

1. This has nothing to do with LI.

That's debatable. If the OP is from Long Island, and wants other LI'ers opinions it makes as much sense to ask it here as any other metro-area forum. Long Islanders have EZ-Pass, and in fact, there's few ways off the island toll free.

[rocafeller05]

Not a Long Island thread??..I could be wrong but I never left the island in a car without paying a toll.

OP- I think each ez pass has to have the car registered to the tag.

[twingles]

It could have been a situation where the car had something in the windshield that prevented the EZPass from being read. There are several makes and models of cars where a windshield EZPass is unusable - we have such a car and had another in the past. You need a tag that goes on the front license plate. It will show yellow when you go through a toll plaza with a tag that can't be read.

You should call EZPass and explain what happened, they are pretty reasonable about this stuff. If you have the plate number of the rental, so much the better.

[bellakin123]

Originally Posted by rocafeller05

Not a Long Island thread??..I could be wrong but I never left the island in a car without paying a toll.

OP- I think each ez pass has to have the car registered to the tag.

you pay a toll going from LI to Queens? lol