All Electronic Tolling
Sep 20, 2016, 5:39 am
#16
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Or sign up on line:
https://www.ezpassma.com/(S(jt2qmy5a...))/signup.aspx
unless they don't mail transponders internationally
https://www.ezpassma.com/(S(jt2qmy5a...))/signup.aspx
unless they don't mail transponders internationally
Dec 17, 2016, 11:50 am
#17
Join Date: Jul 2001
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I'm having trouble finding what Thrifty charges for PlatePass: does anyone know? For an 8-day rental, I think the cashless toll would only apply exiting Logan Airport at the Sumner Tunnel. For this trip on I-93 into New Hampshire, I'm thinking I might as well set the Waze app for an avoid-toll route to help me through the Revere route.
Dec 18, 2016, 12:37 pm
#18
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Location: Central Mass
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Where are the airport gantries now, anyways? I didn't see any coming out of Logan through the Ted Williams, but I thought I may have seen one on the way in just where the tunnel opens up for a minute in South Boston. I can find the Turnpike ones, but not the Airport ones anywhere.
Dec 18, 2016, 1:24 pm
#19
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I'm having trouble finding what Thrifty charges for PlatePass: does anyone know? For an 8-day rental, I think the cashless toll would only apply exiting Logan Airport at the Sumner Tunnel. For this trip on I-93 into New Hampshire, I'm thinking I might as well set the Waze app for an avoid-toll route to help me through the Revere route.
ETA: Oops, it's unclear if the plan to charge tolls on the Callahan Tunnel towards Logan has been implemented; can anyone reply on that?
Last edited by rove312; Dec 18, 2016 at 1:31 pm
Dec 19, 2016, 4:10 am
#20
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We noticed the removal of toll booths when we took the Mass Pike between 84 and 290 Thanksgiving weekend. I don't remember seeing signage for those who didn't have EZPass alerting them that they would be mailed a bill although we could have missed it.
Jan 14, 2017, 3:27 pm
#22
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Right now I am rip-pooped over this. My car right now is basically a zombie - I can drive it for about a 5-10 mile radius and that is it, as my water pump is gone. I rented a car from Enterprise so I could take my father up to Market Basket and then drive into Boston so I could go to the car show to look at new models.
Well, when I tried to add the car to my ez pass it keeps telling me it is already associated with another account. EZ pass closed at 1 and doesn't open Sundays anymore, you get no help from their phone, and the car rental office (local office) is closed now and tomorrow. This whole system is a sham.
Well, when I tried to add the car to my ez pass it keeps telling me it is already associated with another account. EZ pass closed at 1 and doesn't open Sundays anymore, you get no help from their phone, and the car rental office (local office) is closed now and tomorrow. This whole system is a sham.
Jan 14, 2017, 9:34 pm
#23
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Trying to compare rental company policies: on Alamo I only see them once I get a price quote, and there's:
So we'll fly to BOS and go through the toll booth in New Hampshire where there's a cash option, should I read this that, if we pay cash in NH, we'll only be charged for the days the transponder is read in MA? That "generate an unpaid toll" is an essential clause? Or should I take "travel" literally, that a GPS could tell we've left the state, and have that service fee for each day of the rental?
If you or any driver operate the rental vehicle in the following areas, and generate an unpaid toll, you will be charged:
[...]
Travel both within and outside of MA: TOLLPASS TRANSPONDER SERVICE of $3.95 for each rental day plus the cost of all unpaid tolls. The maximum TollPass Device Charge for the rental period is $19.75, plus the cost of all unpaid tolls.
[...]
Travel both within and outside of MA: TOLLPASS TRANSPONDER SERVICE of $3.95 for each rental day plus the cost of all unpaid tolls. The maximum TollPass Device Charge for the rental period is $19.75, plus the cost of all unpaid tolls.
Travel within MA only: TOLLPASS CONVENIENCE CHARGE of $3.95 for each day you use a toll road or bridge plus the cost of all unpaid tolls. The maximum TollPass Convenience charge for the rental period is $19.75, plus the cost of all unpaid tolls.
Jan 17, 2017, 10:57 am
#24
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Worth noting that even though NH still has cash lanes at toll booths, all lanes have EZPass antennas. Don't know if the toll collector can "cancel" the EZPass transaction if you give them cash, but if the rental has EZPass it's going to get picked up going thru NH, even in the cash lanes.
Jan 17, 2017, 3:55 pm
#26
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Worth noting that even though NH still has cash lanes at toll booths, all lanes have EZPass antennas. Don't know if the toll collector can "cancel" the EZPass transaction if you give them cash, but if the rental has EZPass it's going to get picked up going thru NH, even in the cash lanes.
I have an EZPass from Maine and it came with some sort of special plastic bag to put it in for when you want to pay cash instead of using the EZPass. Not sure if there are other methods of preventing the sensors from discovering it, but I'm not aware of any on/off switch or the like.
Jan 17, 2017, 4:55 pm
#27
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Hmm, I understood that it needed to be rotated a certain way for it to read: there were two settings in the car I rented, and I kept it at what I took to be the non-reading way. I don't immediately find writings on that: nothing's turned up on my bills for the times I paid cash in NH on a rental ending 12-29-2016.
Jan 18, 2017, 7:18 am
#28
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Ours (Mass and NY) don't have "on/off" switches. They do have a metallic bag you can use and since we use both transponders to save money we do use those bags and they work.
Jan 18, 2017, 4:09 pm
#29
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The transponders mounted in rentals that I've seen are mounted on a swiveling plate in a conductive box and can be swung/rotated "out" to use or "in" to get the same effect as the bag you have. I suspect that's what rove312 is describing.
Jan 19, 2017, 11:44 am
#30
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In Hertz cars, the transponders are encased in a metal box with a door that is slid open to allow the transponder to be used, and slid closed otherwise. I typically travel with my own transponder so simply keep the door closed. I usually forget to update my EZPass account to include my rental cars, but thus far have not had any issue.