Can I pay cash at toll spots from MCO the gulf?

[Gypsy65]

Be a heckuva LOT better if they were satisfied to take the amount they are paid from fuel taxes and blow the toll booths to smithereens!

Isn’t that how it was sold in the first place?
Fuel taxes would cover this but now for some reason it doesn’t?

 

[dioxide45]

Be a heckuva LOT better if they were satisfied to take the amount they are paid from fuel taxes and blow the toll booths to smithereens!

Well, according to an article in the Tallahassee Democrat (newspaper), Florida only gets 68% of road funding from fuel and other taxes. So if they were to blow those booths to smithereens, as you say, there would be some pretty big budget shortfalls. They could perhaps increase the taxes on everyone or just ask those that want to use those roads to help pay the associated costs. Kind of like going to a timeshare that charges fees for daily or midweek housekeeping or even certain activities. If you want them, you pay them. Instead of everyone having to pay for it.

 

[Passepartout]

So if they were to blow those booths to smithereens, as you say, there would be some pretty big budget shortfalls. They could perhaps increase the taxes on everyone or just ask those that want to use those roads to help pay the associated costs.. . . . If you want them, you pay them. Instead of everyone having to pay for it.

Isn't that exactly what they do with 'User fees'? We can choose to disagree that fuel taxes should or should not cover road building and expansion, but fuel taxes are/were designed to cover roads. If what is already collected isn't enough, a case can be made that road use (fuel) taxes need to be higher. Where I live, bridges were built, and toll booths were installed to pay for them. And when the construction was paid off, the toll booths were removed and ongoing maintenance expenses have been covered by fuel taxes. I can see expansion and construction expenses, over and above basic transport needs to be paid for by tolls, but when tolls are collected primarily to pay for the toll takers and 'highway districts', it's time to reign them in.

 

[rapmarks]

I saw no cash lanes last trip to Orlando. They’ve gone to bill by plate so bill would go to rental car company. Suspect you’d then get hit with administration fees from rental car company.

This is what they told my son who ended up having to pay the car rental an extra ten a day for toll pass because they said it would read their plates instead if the transponder

 

[gnipgnop]

I was already to sign up for my Sun Pass transponder (portable) online and I noticed that I needed the vehicle and license plate information. Now that stumped me ~ I'm buying online to use for a rental car that I'm renting in April, 2021. How would I know what vehicle I would get or the license plate number at this time. OK, what's the trick?

 

[bnoble]

OK, what's the trick?

For CFX, you can change vehicle make/model/color/plate # from the web site. When I pick up my rental car, I spend a few minutes on my phone entering the info, and then I am good to go. I assume SunPass does the same.

 

[BingoBangoBongo]

I was already to sign up for my Sun Pass transponder (portable) online and I noticed that I needed the vehicle and license plate information. Now that stumped me ~ I'm buying online to use for a rental car that I'm renting in April, 2021. How would I know what vehicle I would get or the license plate number at this time. OK, what's the trick?

I just put in the info for my personal car when I set it up the first time. It's unlikely I'd ever be driving it in FL, but as bnoble stated you can change the plate in the app once you pick up the car. The app lets you put in a plate # and Start Date/Time and End Date/Time.

 

[dioxide45]

I just put in the info for my personal car when I set it up the first time. It's unlikely I'd ever be driving it in FL, but as bnoble stated you can change the plate in the app once you pick up the car. The app lets you put in a plate # and Start Date/Time and End Date/Time.

^^This^^

 

[SandyPGravel]

Could you get a removable(i.e. suction cup mount) for the mini transponder so you don't have to stick it to the window? I got one for the I-pass (Illinois) from Amazon, only took a couple days.

 

[dioxide45]

Could you get a removable(i.e. suction cup mount) for the mini transponder so you don't have to stick it to the window? I got one for the I-pass (Illinois) from Amazon, only took a couple days.

The mini is a sticker that you adhere to the windshield. It won't work unless stuck to the windshield.

 

[Talent312]

You can use a mini on a rental... Just pull it off when you return the car.
If you get another, go online and and change the registration information.
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[Gypsy65]

Could you get a removable(i.e. suction cup mount) for the mini transponder so you don't have to stick it to the window? I got one for the I-pass (Illinois) from Amazon, only took a couple days.

or just some Saran Wrap on the window sticker one

 

[SandyPGravel]

The mini is a sticker that you adhere to the windshield. It won't work unless stuck to the windshield.

Oh, didn't know that. Sounds like the one from Kansas. I used vinyl window cling for that one. Worked great!

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[BA21]

The Portable SunPass comes with suction cups. Very easy to attach and remove from the windshield.

 

[dioxide45]

The Sun Pass comes with suction cups. Very easy to attach and remove from the windshield.

The SunPass Portable transponder comes with suction cups. People are also discussing the SunPass mini, which is a sticker.

 

[Talent312]

Sounds like the [mini sticker] from Kansas. I used vinyl window cling for that one. Worked great!

Good idea. Perhaps cling-wrap would work.
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[bnoble]

The E-Pass Xtra (now called Uni) from the CFX had sticky strips, but I bought a suction-cup holder for it and it works great. Loaned it to my son for his drive on Ohio/Penna turnpikes this last weekend.

 

[Icc5]

I was already to sign up for my Sun Pass transponder (portable) online and I noticed that I needed the vehicle and license plate information. Now that stumped me ~ I'm buying online to use for a rental car that I'm renting in April, 2021. How would I know what vehicle I would get or the license plate number at this time. OK, what's the trick?

What they had us do is put our owned vehicle to sign up. After getting the rental go online and switch to that license and then switch again to your own vehicle license when done. Don't forget or you will end up paying someone else's tolls.
We ran into a problem a couple years ago after renting a car there (no tolls) when we got home there was a charge of almost $200 on our credit card for tolls. It turned out (we think) someone stole the license off the rental in Arizona (it had paper plates when we rented it) and put it on a car in Florida. Once we thought we figured out what happened we called the Arizona car rental and they basically told us it was our problem. I then started working with the Florida toll people and had to send them our information of the Arizona rental,a copy of our credit card statements showing us spending money in Arizona on the days the car showed as going thru the Florida tolls.
It took us almost 6 months to get it straightened out. It wasn't good enough to show how we couldn't drive back and forth between Arizona and Florida during the time period.

 

[BingoBangoBongo]

On the app where you enter the car rental make/model/plate # there are boxes to add start date/time and end date/time.