On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 9:51:11 PM UTC-5, Charles Bishop wrote:
In article ,
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 11/20/2016 12:40 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:13:36 -0700, Charles Bishop
wrote:

As you say, you missed the deadline for using phone or internet and had
to rely on the rental company, which looks to have not charged a fine,
but only a "rental" of the transponder, which looks to be cheap.

My bet is the state has an arrangement with the rental car companies.
If they get a transponder rental fee every time someone passes a toll
booth, it is not a bad deal for the state. My bet is it is just one
computer talking to another so labor is not a big deal.


Rental companies cannot afford to have fines and registration problems
over a $4 toll.

Well, it's 7.50, but I take your point. The short answer is that they
have your credit card and the contract likely says they can add charges
that you incur that you should pay, if they come back to the rental
company.

What is the rental fee? Is it D$/day for every day you have the car, or
only when you use the transponder?

As I said in an earlier post, Enterprise charges $3.95 per day from the first say you use it. You
can opt out, which I did. H



I'm really unsure why there should be a fee at all. There's very little
paperwork (heh, even if it's electronic) involved for the rental company
- the toll people ding the company, the company dings you when you
return the car.

Because they can, but since it comes with an opt out choice, there' son harm, no foul.
I also opted out of paying for a full tank of gas at NV prices because "it would cheaper
than a full tank at CA prices" since that is where I was dropping the car off. It worked
out perfectly. I filled up about an hour from SFO and was not charged anything for gas.


If you knew where the transponder was, you could faraday cage it, and
then . . . what? I may not have thought this through.

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chares

I can't answer that. I assumed that they handed you a physical transponder in a
shielded bag. Once you use it, the $3.95 per day begins. That's my guess.