Have any of you traveled through the Eastern U.S. in an RV or Campervan lately? If you have, you’ve seen the cashless toll booths EVERYWHERE. Last year, I traveled from the Midwest up to New York, into Canada and back down through Michigan. On that trip I went through dozens of cashless toll areas and six months later I’m STILL getting bills in the mail! As a nomad, getting your mail in a timely fashion can be tricky – but I do get my mail righty away and I still got late fines in the EZPayNY toll by mail system.
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I lived in fla. and kept getting bills of my license plate from California!
Complain to your DOT, Mayor, State Representatives and Senate!
Robin, is your book only available on Kindle? I almost bought a hard copy on ebay before realizing it was written by someone else! (Quite a few books with this same name). It's your book that I want but not a Kindle
NYC here. The late fees are a killer for sure. Im sorry you were stressing about the tolls.
Wow ! Good info! Thanks!
INDIANA/ OHIO IS A RIP OFF 140.00 INTERSTATE 65. F.THEM !
LOL. Just get a transponder. I have SunPass Pro that works with EZPass.
I won't be traveling east anytime soon.
Lots of people seem to be JACKWAGONS lately. … sorry about your troubles. Love your hair!
Avoid toll roads. They're owned by foreign companies. We have a right to travel here in the US. They should never have instituted toll roads. EVER.
Pennsylvania and New York are just horrible when it comes to the tolls let alone the fact they not RV friendly I would even stretch it to say they are "RV hostile".
Yes! Going through Denver is $11 just about anyway you drive it as an unsuspecting tourist 😮
Great video! I have transponder since I live in one of those states. BUT…I really don’t like this cashless system for EXACTLY the reasons you gave.
Tennessee doesn't require tags for non-commercial trailers (not sure about campers). Consequently, it's nice pulling that behind my Suburban in states with photo tolls as it obstructs my Suburban tag.
I didn't realize that until I got back from Florida. My friends without a boat had several tolls in the mail. I never got one.
That happened to us when we traveled for 6 months and had our mail held. Ugh!
Class action is only way to fight it. Problem is it’s set up by a liberal company and apparently immune from the law cuz they are the modern nazi’s
If you are going to pre-pay anyway… Why wouldn't you just get the transponder? They don't cost anything! You have to open an account when you get the transponder, and pre-pay. The transponder has your license plate info and number of axles of the vehicle. Just my opinion, but I would think the transponder is not going to make any mistakes. Mine NEVER has. Then you can get online and add money to the account whenever you want, where ever you are at. And here is another thing! In my state, (Illinois) YOU PAY MORE! IF YOU PAY BY MAIL OR ONLINE! I'm not exactly sure how much it is, but I think it's DOUBLE! So a $1.50 toll with a transponder, will cost you $3.00 without one. I have also found that paying a toll online, after the fact, is a major headache! I'm sure that is by design, it's easier and cheaper for the state to collect their money if you have a transponder. It isn't like you have to throw $500 into the account. You can put $1 in there if you want to. If you KNOW you are going to travel those states it just doesn't make any sense to NOT get one. In Illinois at least, you are going pay less for the tolls if you have one.
Good Morning. I have the EZpass for chicago and i have them auto take the payment on my Acc and it pust money in when needed . No late payment or over charges. Jack
I live in KS. We are just switching to cashless tolls in july but accepted ez pass for over 2 yrs now. I got a Florida epass. It works in all ezpass states, all Florida tolls, it now works in ks, OK, parts of tx. The only place it doesn't work is Colorado 🥲. I just keep my credit card updated in their app amd see the toll the next day in their app. I have been through NY, NJ, PA, MI, KS, OK, CO, and many more. Works great!
I have e-z pass. I also have auto pay. When the statement comes I just check it. Works well for me.
Spray your license plates with the spray they sell online. You will never get a toll again. Lol
Avoid toll roads, set google maps and use it. I used to live in CA and would always take the toll less routes, cost, is reason. You have to go on line a prepay those tolls due to no person in toll booth now a days. How crazy is that.
Last June I drove from Southern California to Rhode Island and took a different route on the way back. I set the map both ways for no tolls and it was a great journey and no toll fees ever in the mail.
Some Jag Off took my car in TX and I had to pay his tolls until I got closure from insurance for them to stop billing me. It took a month and the cops could have easily hit him because you could tell in toll bill he had a pattern. TX allows car thieves like a cottage industry they just let rate payers and insurance companies pay for.
3:59 She was on a toll road for 6 hours and 38 minutes. Duh.
The only suggestion I have is everyone that travels should all call there congressman and file a gripe with them about the system not working!
Wholly crap! I had no idea about this! I'm living out of my car in Texas and don't travel. I'm retired and can't make it alone on SS. I live partially during the day out of my storage unit. I just have a place to sit and relax. I don't travel because I can't afford it!! Thank God I don't because I could NEVER pay that shit! OMG! When did they do this? !!! This is absolute bullshit!! On top of everything else we pay for, they did this to charge us to be on the road? It's literally government high way robbery!! It's the reason they set it up that way! Hoping you don't get the bill so that they can fine you hundreds of dollars! Bastards!! We can't live already financially anymore and they do this to people!!
And, I have a PO Box and never receive my mail in this slow stupid Texas town! I'd never get the bill and would probably end up with huge fines!
Thank God I don't travel!
I think the American people have lost their freedom to multinational monopoly corporations. To much power at the top of government and private corporations working together against the people.
Robin, you're aging backwards.
Yes, I never come across tolls because I’ve set up Waze to go the scenic routes, and I live on the East Coast, so I travel all over. I’m on the East Coast now, traveling south, and haven’t seen one of those tolls 😎🚐🥾 So, sorry that happened to you. Stay off the highways.
Poor baby!
Wow, I am so glad to get this info . Hoping to start traveling soon
Eyes wide oen on Virginia roads they are shit
Thanks for the heads up!
Make sure you don't cross the double solid line in Colorado! They are fining people 200.00 for doing so….
We got a bill from a toll road in NC, it wasn’t her vehicle but it was the same license plate number! I paid it not realizing at first, then I called. It wasn’t her vehicle and I was never reimbursed 😡
Got over 2,000 in fines with ez pass set up. Going none toll route now.
Pickup an Ezpass- it's valid all over the East Coast, and FL, and you pay less for the tolls vs paper bills.
This is so messed up.
Ridiculous, so being free is not free. I would not travel those States
Yep. Went Chicago years back. Owed 00.30 in tolls. By time I got the bill it was $60.00! I now have a ez pass on my car window for when I go see my mum. They live off the fines. Google it. Lots of complaints about them.
Imagine how it is for internationals! Home address on another continent. How much would the fines be when you get home in 3 years??
Avoid States that have these Draconian Tolls !
I recently traveled to Indianapolis from TN and saw the signs that the toll was up ahead so I started to gather my money and was shocked that they were unmanned. I'm looking around nervously and see no one stopping so I kept going. And when I returned, same thing so then I wondered if they'd abandoned the tolls but hadn't removed the equipment. Time passes and I'd forgotten about it. Then I get a letter in the mail from RiverLink that I think is probably junk mail and almost threw away… and it was the tolls bill. Needless to say I was glad I opened it first! But it was a little tricky to pay online because the website asks for the Billing# but it looks like it should be the Account#. Same with the license plate#. It looks like you should include the state abbreviation along with clicking on the state registration scroll down tab… but of course you don't!-))
That $10+ tolls cost me $20 of my time and nerves! Why is it not simpler, idk 🤷♀️ but leave it to the government to make something simple into a red tape bureaucracy all it's own.
THIS should be ILLEGAL!!!!!! Class Action suits should be firming as we speak.
Screw that! Set your maps to go around tolls.
Good for you
I live in western New York. A few years ago the Lackawanna exit and enterance was not charging correctly so local people were ending up with hundreds of $ each month they had to pay it! Finally the local channels investigated it they got a refund
Check online everyone you go through one of those things
When I use google map or waze, there is a place where you can hit avoid tolls, etc. Yea, hit that. It may take you a little longer, but you will avoid all toll roads.
Head West grasshopper.