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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
On October 1-3 I went to the Chicago suburbs and hadn't driven that way in quite a few years. None of the tolls have cash payment anymore - it is either iPass or "pay on the internet". So I went through all the tolls on the way up 294 and over on 88 to Downer's Grove. After returning home I signed up to pay the tolls, gave my payment info, my license plate number, and set the start date as one day before my trip started. To date, there is zero activity. Is there anything else I am supposed to do? Since I live in Indiana I do not have a front license plate, if that makes any difference. | ||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
If there is a number on the website to call I would call and ask about it. Note the time and date you called and who you talked to. If they can't help you I would consider my due diligence done and I wouldn't waste anymore time on it. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
^^^ What he said. Driving around Chicago can be a nightmare for us red-blooded Americans from other states. After a trip up there, and doing what you're doing, I bought an I-pass. I don't go up there often, but I guess having the I-pass sit unused in my cabinet most of the time is better than going through that again. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
^^^ Yep, I got money from the ATM and cashed a $20 at a gas station so I had money for tolls. I didn't mind the idea of having to pull over to the one toll booth and waiting in line a little while - this was for a H.S. reunion so I wasn't in a hurry. But there are zero manual booths anymore, so I-Pass would make sense next time. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, but since my mom moved down to Indy to live nearby in an old folks place I just don't go up there very often. I think the last time was probably 2012 just before she moved. | |||
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Did you know if you get right on someones tail right as you go under the I-pass reader it thinks you are one vehicle.  ------------------------------------- Always the pall bearer, never the corpse. | |||
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In the TX system, I've sometimes gotten invoices 2-5 months later. I wouldn't worry about it until you do. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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^^^^^^^^^ I am from Chicago and remember such schemes for beating the system. With my luck it would be an undercover cop in front and I would get a ticket for following too closely. | |||
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Pick out a semi truck. I am from Spfld and rarely go all the way up there. ------------------------------------- Always the pall bearer, never the corpse. | |||
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The system is woefully slow, check your ipass account periodically for the next few weeks or even months. I have gotten a ton of notifications in the last couple of weeks for tolls from over a month ago. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Do they read the front plate or rear plate. If the tailgating through the thing really works, it sounds like they read the front plate. That would be great for me. | |||
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Rear plate. I have been stopped in Illinois for no front plate. | |||
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I was stopped in Illinois (Oak Brook) for German plates on a car that I brought back from Europe. Showed the cop the paperwork, the car had been in the U.S. for less than a week, Illinois DMV had told me I had 30 days (or was it 90? Can't remember) to get it titled in Illinois. Cop wasn't having any of it, he started writing a ticket, I suggested that he get his supervisor out there; he finally called to check and found that I was correct. I was also pulled over in NJ, (Essex County, Tony Soprano territory) for no front plate. Car was registered in Florida at the time; we only have back plates. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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The Ez-Pass we have in NJ reads the rear plate and that is where they have the cameras focused. I see some motorcycles riders putting their hand over the rear plate as they go thru the tolls. Every once in a while I would take a company vehicle home and would forget they didn't have the tag. Eventually, I would get a call from my boss showing me a picture of the company vehicle they sent the ticket to. With EZ-Pass, a phone call to them would get the toll charged to my personal vehicle and no ticket involved. Living the Dream | |||
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