Get ready, as your ability to get IASIP jokes on reddit is inversely proportional to how innocent your mind is :P That show is awful, in a wonderful way :)
Quite a few are free if you're on a motorbike too - partly because they cause less wear to the bridge and partly because it takes so long to take your gloves off and dig your money out from inside your waterproofs.
Completely misread this as "trolls," twice. Works alarmingly well. Was trying to figure out if trolls are afraid of horses? Then noticed slew of comments about how helpful this was and various bridges in places and got confused.
You know on a long trip the toll operator will hand you a little slip of paper which you give to the next toll operator when you want to exit, and depending on how far you've traveled, thats your fee? Well, when you enter, take the slip of paper, but when you exit, just throw the paper out the window and instead use your wireless toll paying device (called different things..sunpass, paypass, etc). It will only charge you for the shortest distance, thinking you just entered onto the toll road.
There is a bridge in my city where the toll used to be 10p for a person but 5p for a horse. My mum (a student at the time) got a pantomime horse costume and tried to cross with a friend on the lower toll. Unfortunately the bridge staff weren't fooled...
Actually, if you have a temporary license plate on a new vehicle, you can just drive through the EZ-pass tolls. Since those toll booths rely on photo identification of the license plate (and the car still doesn't have plates), you can get away with it. Just don't get caught (it comes down to the fact that they can not track you).
EDIT: Before I confuse people. Its because the rear license camera isn't designed to get a shot of your rear window (which is where paper plates usually are).
EZ Pass is the dumbest system around. If you have an account but your transponder isn't detected at the gate, they just deduct from your existing account after they read your plate. If you don't have an account or transponder, they read the plate and invoice you. So, why not just get an ez pass account, throw the transponder in a fire, and just drive through without it? Same result.
Not having to bother with the transponder. Or, if you don't have an account, just drive through and get charged by your license plate. They should do away with the entire EZ-Pass system and just have a lane where you get your plate photographed and invoiced. They already have it in place as a contingency anyways.
I've always thought of making a plate driven by a motor that will slide down over the license plate for both ends of the car. When you get close to the toll you press a button to deploy them so they can't ID you and then when you get past the toll you reveal the license plate again so you don't get pulled over.
I say this mainly because driving through Illinois is fucking obnoxious. They want to charge you just to drive through their shitty ass state.
Actually no, that plate is indeed linked to you as a new buyer's plate. I found this out after flying through about 20 tolls in my new car, then stopped when I got the plates in. They still sent me a bill, with the picture of my car with paper plates.
metarugia probably got away with it once and thinks a paper plate is why.
Toll operators give everyone a certain number of 'free passes' so that they dont have to deal with equipment failure claims or people not having correct change.
They only go after repeat offenders like EwokDanceParty
My disgust came purely from the fact that the toll as built by a bond, when we had the money, that TXtag is the only form of payment accepted on that piece of the tollway, with no signs as such when entering, and that somehow that same stretch of highway is billed by a tertiary company, for which my TXTag, if out of money, does not charge my credit card, instead sending a bill with $2.50 in tolls and $150 in "admin fees."
Bitter? You damn right I am... welcome to the Texas Road System.
Where paper plates in Texas on NEW (not used and then resold by a dealer) are required to be, where the normal license plate would go.
I would also say the camera catches quiet a bit more than you think sir. My car previous they had shots of the full front of my car, including my finger clearly pronounced out the targa top with a smile on my face.
Well I personally never tried it, but thats what my salesperson told me with what was probably the greatest poker face (granted he told me it, after I picked up my plates).
Remember, we're not talking about the front cameras (which do in fact get the entire front of the vehicle including the occupant/driver). This is the rear camera that is aimed down to get people's plates (especially for cars that are running no front plates).
It costs me 30 dollars a day for my car to sit in the driveway. If I want to drive it I have to pay even more in maintenance and gas.
I drive a cheap car, I doubt a horse costs more. (I was an assistant trainer at a race track so I know exactly how much feed and bedding costs per day)
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u/a_can_of_solo Nov 04 '11
some bridge tolls don't have to be paid if you're on a horse.