ww52
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- Apr 2, 2001
We're renting a car when we land and today I just starting to think about tolls.
I live in Illinois, which uses the I-Pass system (which is also reciprocal with the EZ-Pass system). However, the state of Florida does not recognize either of them. So taking along my transponder is useless.
I'm renting through Avis - which provides a transponder. However, they charge $4 a day for every day of rental (whether you use the transponder or not - but a max of $20 a month); PLUS the CASH rate of each toll.
We'll have the car 7 days so that's the max $20. The question therefore is - how many tolls and what are their cash rates?
Overall - what are my options? Let's say I turn it off completely and come to an unmanned collection point? Will I get a ticket or will I have an option to pay online within so many days? (Illinois does that - but it's at the cash rate).
Like so many things - it seems like the rental car companies thought this out very well - it's simply easier to pay the convenience fee than try to find a way to avoid it. $20 is not a whole lot in the scheme of the total trip cost obviously.
I live in Illinois, which uses the I-Pass system (which is also reciprocal with the EZ-Pass system). However, the state of Florida does not recognize either of them. So taking along my transponder is useless.
I'm renting through Avis - which provides a transponder. However, they charge $4 a day for every day of rental (whether you use the transponder or not - but a max of $20 a month); PLUS the CASH rate of each toll.
We'll have the car 7 days so that's the max $20. The question therefore is - how many tolls and what are their cash rates?
Overall - what are my options? Let's say I turn it off completely and come to an unmanned collection point? Will I get a ticket or will I have an option to pay online within so many days? (Illinois does that - but it's at the cash rate).
Like so many things - it seems like the rental car companies thought this out very well - it's simply easier to pay the convenience fee than try to find a way to avoid it. $20 is not a whole lot in the scheme of the total trip cost obviously.