Originally Posted by
ijgordon
PlatePlass is just the company that effectively places toll transponders (be they EZpass, SunPass, whatever) in the rental cars, and charges people for the use. They still have to pay the tolls that "their" cars go through to the tolling authority.
I think the confusion is that unlike in the Northeast, where PlatePass places EZPass transponders in the cars (in a box that you can close if you don't want to use it), in Florida PlatePass doesn't actually place a SunPass transponder in Hertz cars, but instead relies on the Florida tolling authorities' use of "toll-by-plate" technology to pass along tolls to Hertz customers. And there's no way to shut that off (although in theory having a SunPass transponder should override it). So technically it wouldn't be SunPass (the transponder company) billing PlatePass, but whatever tolling authority (Florida's Turnpike or whatever) that billed PlatePass.