If you are renting a car while visiting Florida you need to get your own toll transponder for your rental car. The cheapest solution is to drive your rental car from the airport to the nearest Publix, Walgreens, CVS or any store like these and buy a Sunpass. Stay off of all toll roads until…
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The Attorney General’s office here in Florida is finally starting to get serious about rental car companies gouging us for tolls while driving rental cars. Whether it is the daily charge for a toll transponder even if you don’t need or use it; to the excessive “administration” charges that they tack on if you go…
The Veteran’s Expressway here in Tampa is still testing the express lanes, they’re free for now. It’s more like a free-for-all. I’m not sure of the wisdom of adding an express lane to avoid one entrance/exit that hardly anyone uses; but I’m not in charge here. Or anywhere as it turns out. But the real…
The problem of tourists being over charged for tolls in a rental car is only going to keep getting worse. Here’s a new article from the LA Times that adds some new information. The biggest problem for visitors, hell, anyone driving a rental car nowadays is the transition of toll roads to all electronic tolling….
Here’s the one thing a Tolltraxx transponder won’t help you with while driving. New info out shows that reckless behaviors are the cause for a surge in traffic fatalities last year. I would have originally guessed distracted driving but I guess every moron driving with a cell phone has one so now it’s on to…
The State of Florida suspended all tolls in the wake of Hurricane Irma, that ends tonight (9/20/17) at Midnight. Here is the complete transcript from the Florida Toll Authority: Tolls on a vast majority of Floridas Turnpike system, all Florida Department of Transportation roads and bridges, and all regional toll facilities throughout the State will…
Well, Irma has come and gone, the only things left are toppled trees, no power, heat, and the crazy drivers. Just because we had a hurricane doesn’t mean that the rules of the road no longer apply. If anything, the rules of the road should be followed even more closely. If the traffic light is…
Well, Florida has finally seen fit to address the rental car companies efforts to hide and avoid telling renters what they are paying if they drive their rental car on a toll road. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of Florida has settled with about half of the rental car companies over these charges; read the…
It’s as simple as this “V(x,p) = v(x)w(p).” Got it? Where V is value and x is a possible outcome…..Ahhh!!!!! This is how tolls work in Florida if you are driving a rental car. The companies are all different except that they are all owned by one another. So check the toll chart for your…