illinois tollway cash vs ipass cost reddit

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I forgot to get an I-PASS at first when I bought my first car and moved off my parents I-PASS account. That's all you can do with a government agency like this. Just say you want to settle, and your settlement will be set according to the guidelines in the above link. You don't need to mention anything else or give a list of excuses of why you couldn't make your payment. Just call them and tell them you want to settle. They're partly correct, except I-PASS has a set process and guidelines for settlements. Some Redditors mentioned that I-PASS is nice and will usually reduce your fees. Don't bother reading the comments, they're not very helpful. I would have deleted this a long time ago, but I wanted to leave it up for anyone who has a similar issue in the future. I don't understand how this is enough of my fault to where I owe near $1000. I tried to see if I had fines by making an account on their website, and after I didn't see anything there, I figured that I was fine for now. $928.50 for this? I would have paid this ASAP if I had just known about it. What are my options here? Am I screwed? I know I could have been a little more responsible here, but come on. This added up quick, and I'm just being made aware of it now because I've been away from home, traveling for four months.

#ILLINOIS TOLLWAY CASH VS IPASS COST REDDIT LICENSE#

They're also saying they'll suspend my driver's license soon. Afterwards, there's a $20 fine per violation. Here's a table basically outlining what I owed when: Original Unpaid Toll Fees I came home for the holidays, and I have letters from the Illinois Tollway. I also figured that they would send me an e-mail or something now that they I had created an account with all my contact information.įast forward to today. I figured that for now I was good, and maybe they were still processing the violations. In fact, there was no record that I had even driven through an I-PASS in June/July. However, I didn't see anything regarding any violations or fees. I ordered an I-PASS transponder and put in my card information so that it could charge me whenever I went through an I-PASS. I didn't want to get screwed over on fees, so I made an account on their website. I had always driven a car under my parents' name so I just didn't really think about it. In early September, I was reminded by a friend about I-PASS and realized that I had never created an account or installed one onto my new car. I drove it around a bit, and then I started traveling for work in late July. You are right adopt the 'opt-in' the leveler on the transponder is default ON if I recall correctly from my last rental in Florida back in 2017.I bought my first car in mid-June. I'll be driving a lot in Orlando and the Broward-Dade area as well on the Turnpike so I will add on my share part of tolls, but as you said it all depends on the number of tolls passages (or days of toll passages). Good for the occasional toll users, less good for the long-rental-tolls-every-day renters.Thx. For example, in the SF Bay area, a lot of tourists will rent a car for a week or more, but only use a single toll - the Golden Gate Bridge (the only non-cash toll road in the bay area), so they end up paying $8 for the toll, and ~$20 for the fee, which is obviously fairly significant.Īfter being sued over this more than once, Hertz have changed their pricing to only charge on the (calendar) days that you actually use a toll, but got rid of the cap. Whether it's a good deal or not depends entirely on how much you use it. You don't have to opt-in as such - simply going through a toll that gets charged to Avis results in you being charged. Would I en up paying $19.75 or $19,75 x2?ĮKYou would pay only $19.75, as your rent periode is shorter than a month (30 days). How should I intrepid this for example, I rent a car from December 18 and return the car 6th of January my rental period is 19 days, as I understand within a rental month but stretches over twocalendar month. In the first section it says ' up to a maximum of $19.75 per rental month' and in the second section it says ' $19.75 maximum per month'.

#ILLINOIS TOLLWAY CASH VS IPASS COST REDDIT PLUS#

' When a renter utilizes these lanes, the toll system identifies the car and charges the standard cash fee for toll roads as published by the toll authority, plus the convenience fee of $3.95 per day ($19.75 maximum per month).' ' Under the e-Toll program, once you pass through an electronic toll, you will pay a convenience fee of $3.95 for each day of the entire rental period, including any days on which e-Toll is not used, up to a maximum of $19.75 per rental month, plus incurred tolls at the maximum prevailing rates posted by the toll authority'

Illinois tollway cash vs ipass cost reddit