On 22-Jan-12 06:39, tim.... wrote:
"Robert Neville" wrote in message
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"tim...." wrote:
how does all this work with rental cars?

Presumably the same as it does with speeding citations. You get a bill
from the rental car company after the fact along with a hefty
administrative surcharge.

It's the "hefty administrative surcharge" I was concerned about.

It's not unreasonable for a rental company to charge a renter for the
work involved processing something that shouldn't happen.

Quite another if the paperwork is unavoidable and caused by the
authorities not providing a system that rental cars can use without
incurring that work

Exactly. When NTTA had cash lanes, there were indeed a hefty fees (from
both NTTA and the rental agency) for not paying a toll. When their cash
lanes were eliminated, those fines and fees were also eliminated, as
long as one paid the bill on time. CTRMA still has their cash lanes but
adopted the same pay-by-mail system as NTTA.

HCTRA and FBTRA don't (yet) do pay-by-mail, as with other toll roads in
the US, so the fines and fees are still there for their roads.

S

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