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While electronic toll collection systems are convenient, some drivers who have been assessed toll roads violation fees while using one of these systems (EZPass, FasTrack, and others) are reporting being charged improper fees. If you have been affected by an unfair toll roads violation fee, you may be able to join a class action lawsuit investigation.
Electronic Toll Collection
While tolls on bridges and highways used to be charged in cash payments, modern technology has evolved the system to offer electronic toll collection options. With these systems—which include EZPass, FasTrack, SunPass, MDX, and iPass, among many others—drivers can pay their toll fees without stopping at a booth or scrambling to find spare change.
There are a few ways for an electronic toll to be collected. Many drivers outfit their vehicles’ windshield with a transponder device, which automatically records information and incurs a toll when the vehicle passes through a toll marker. If drivers do not have a transponder or appropriate account, then their toll will be recorded by license plate: an overhead camera takes a picture of the plate, and a bill will be sent to the car owner’s address.
Drivers may incur a toll roads violation if they fail to pay tolls or otherwise violate the rules of this system. However, some drivers claim that they are being charged improper or excessive toll roads violation fees.
Improper Toll Roads Violation Fees
Drivers have reported a number of improper toll roads violation fees for a variety of issues, including failing to maintain adequate account balance, using toll-by-plate or toll-by-mail options, and other things.
According to drivers, these toll roads violation fees are often grossly out of proportion to the tolls themselves. For some, these toll roads violation fees can be excessive, reportedly leading to owing thousands of dollars in fees—and this may happen even without the driver’s knowledge.
Some drivers say that they were not given adequate notice of the toll they had allegedly incurred, but were still assessed one of these toll roads violation fees. In some cases, unpaid toll roads violation fees may be passed to collections, or even result in a registration hold on their vehicle.
But drivers claim that the toll roads violation penalties they’re hit with are far greater than the toll fee itself. Drivers using New York’s electronic toll collection systems, EZPass and Tolls-By Mail, claim that they have been charged $100 fees for violations, even though the actual toll fee costs less than $10.
On top of the excessive fees, some drivers claim that they are not informed about the issue until weeks after the fact, meaning that can continue to rack up late penalties and other expenses for the same violations in the interim without knowledge that there is a problem at all. In the worst cases, drivers may end up with thousands of dollars in unpaid toll roads violation fees.
If you have been hit with excessive improper toll roads violation fees after using an electronic collection system, you may be able to participate in a class action lawsuit investigation.
Join a Free Toll Road Fees Class Action Lawsuit Investigation
If you believe you were assessed an excessive SunPass toll violation, EZPass toll violation, FasTrak violation, MDX violation, iPass violation or other electronic toll violation fee within the past four years, you may be able to take legal action against the company or companies responsible.
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37 thoughts onHave You Been Hit With a Toll Roads Violation Fee?
Was not made aware I had violations. Bills sent to old address as opposed to my account address or to my email address. From June to August racked up $800 of un-paid tolls, thinking it was just coming from my account. June 21st received normal DONOTRESPOND email saying your statement is available and online. Fast-forward to today, September 12, and they send me an email and document saying they have put a hold on my registration until I pay $18,000 worth of violations. Been a customer with them for three years. I use the roads everyday which is why it racked up and I was more than willing to pay my tolls and bring my account up to date, but $18,000 out of nowhere, they didn’t send anything to my email address or home about me having violations. Please Add me.
Highway robbery. This is one of the reasons not to live in California.
I’m in. Its criminal how large the toll road fees have gotten. Also how do they get away with not even posting the current fee rates at any given time anyway.
thousands of $ worth
We found out about toll violations after a collector called saying we owed over $20,000 over a year of toll violations. We what would have been a couple hundred dollars was grossly over charged in late fees. We were held hostage and ended up settelibg paying $1,000 in order to make it go away so we could get a home loan. The kicker is we had a iPass account with money still in it they just weren’t linked up properly. We were totally unaware of the situation until we got a call from the collector.
I’m in. Nowhere to pay a toll on-site and impossible to confirm every individual driver has read the signs and will remember after a potential long/daunting trip on the hwy. Gouging at it’s finest.
NC Toll Road – EZPASS
$4.42 Toll, after 60 days add $12.00 in late fees and a $21.00 civil penalty . . .
Following this topic. I am a victim too.
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