EZ Pass didn't work - unpaid toll - Am I screwed?

[Daniel Magix]

Basically, my wife and I borrowed a friends EZ Pass for our trip to PA from CT this weekend. On the way back, over the GWB, the pass wouldn't read and as I rolled through the toll, I saw the words “UNPAID TOLL” on the screen.

I thought I could just call someone and explain that it didn't read, and I could pay the toll by check if I had to. Then my wife talked to her friend and found out that you could get a fine if you use an EZ Pass that is not registered to your car, and it can get taken away from the owner.

WTF is my play here? Screwed?

[noggindoc]

No biggie, happened to me more than once they just send a bill for the toll. Once there was a $25 fine but they reversed it after a phone call.

[GovmentCheese]

dunno where you live, but in Chicagoland - I've gone a year or two before I got I-Pass. When there was no gate, I'd typically throw in a couple pennies and drive off. I've gone through the I-Pass lane a couple times as well without paying.

It's been years since I did this stuff, and I've never gotten a ticket.

[MikeyPatriot]

You also usually get a couple of warnings before they start fining you.

[econophile]

in boston, out of staters can drive through the EZ pass without a transponder and not get fined

[Daniel Magix]

I am hoping to just get a bill for the toll, but my real concern is that it will somehow be discovered that the EZ Pass I was trying to use, was not even mine. I don't want that headache.

[metsm1234]

When I borrowed a friend's ez-pass and the toll was unpaid, I received a invoice for the amount of the toll plus a $25 admin fee. I made a phone call and signed up for my own ez-pass. The woman waived the $25 fee but I am not sure how common that is if you just call and say you want the fee waived.

Try signing up for ex-pass. It is free and very simple. Plus waiting in toll lines to pay the state money for the right to drive on their road really sucks in my opinion.

[Hottie McBigTits]

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I am hoping to just get a bill for the toll, but my real concern is that it will somehow be discovered that the EZ Pass I was trying to use, was not even mine. I don't want that headache.

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Why do they care whose ez pass it is. As long as they get the toll, what difference does it make?

[Daniel Magix]

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I am hoping to just get a bill for the toll, but my real concern is that it will somehow be discovered that the EZ Pass I was trying to use, was not even mine. I don't want that headache.

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Why do they care whose ez pass it is. As long as they get the toll, what difference does it make?

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That's what I thought when I borrowed it. Now I found out it's not allowed.

[smartalecc5]

This is for illinois, and I bet your sate has something like it