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How Are You Planning To Handle Drive Throughs, Toll Booths, Atm's, Etc...?

Craig

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much the same happened to us a few years ago when traveling around Denver .... none of their toll booths were staffed, they use a camera to take a picture of a vehicle's tag and go from there .... must admit that I can't help but wonder what would happen if we tow through there again .... with NC not having a front license plate, they would be hard pressed to get a clear picture of the plate on the back of our camper .. :)

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You will be OK if you pay, most will not take a pick. However try not paying and you probably wouldn't make it five miles down the road with out ten LEO's chasing you like Smokey and the Bandit.

I can see you doing this with your camper.:rolleyes:

:eek: Did you see that, they went right through our toll booth.

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You will be OK if you pay, most will not take a pick. However try not paying and you probably wouldn't make it five miles down the road with out ten LEO's chasing you like Smokey and the Bandit.

I can see you doing this with your camper.:rolleyes:

:eek: Did you see that, they went right through our toll booth.

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they don't have people working the booths .... the Denver system is automated .... they have sensors that read EZ Pass or whatever one they use and a camera placed to take a picture of the license plate .... it took them about 3 months to get the bill to us via US Mail .... unless they have some way of instantly figuring out there isn't a good picture of a license plate and dispatching patrol vehicle to present the driver with a bill, I suspect that one could get out of harm's way pretty easily .... not that I have any plans to test this theory ..;)..

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they don't have people working the booths .... the Denver system is automated .... they have sensors that read EZ Pass or whatever one they use and a camera placed to take a picture of the license plate .... it took them about 3 months to get the bill to us via US Mail .... unless they have some way of instantly figuring out there isn't a good picture of a license plate and dispatching patrol vehicle to present the driver with a bill, I suspect that one could get out of harm's way pretty easily .... not that I have any plans to test this theory ..;)..

Jim
I was mixed up. The ones I have gone through with no one on duty, you had to throw the money into the basket on the way through. So I guess with yours it's like a red light camera, they snap the pic and bill you later.
 

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So I guess with yours it's like a red light camera, they snap the pic and bill you later.

that trip around Denver is the only time we've hit such a system .... as noted, that was several years ago, I don't know if they still use the same system

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Took me a while to type this post as after reading all others I ran around in a small circle shrieking "eek! Woe is me!" Then I realized getting in my gated apartment my only issue and I probably will work that out.

More interestingly is what happened to all those posters back a few months as I do not see many of them posting any longer.
 
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