Dutch_12078
Great Sacandaga Lake, NY
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As Bruce said, check with NY E-ZPass. Their motorhome plan only charges you regular passenger car rates for the number of axles you have. We pay the same tolls for our Class A as we do for our RAV4 when they travel separately. When the RAV4 is in tow, we pay the passenger car rate with a two axle trailer. To make it easier, we have a tag for the MH alone, and another for when towing. The toad's tag gets tucked away in a shielded bag when in tow.
Dutch
1995 Coachmen Catalina 322QBXL
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zasboyer
East Berlin, Pa
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[quote=Mike and Trish]Sorry, I may have misunderstood part of the original post -- were they saying you had to pay a minimum of $1,000 per year for tolls, whether you used them or not? I shopped several states for EZPass, including PA, and never heard of such a thing.Quote:
From the PTC page:
"The commercial vehicle E-ZPass program is available to commercial vehicle operators
who desire a prepaid only commercial vehicle account or who incur at least $1,000 per annum
in tolls on the Turnpike and desire a postpaid commercial vehicle account."
Further in the reading, the PTC requires that you keep a $1,000 buffer in your account. The personal requires $35.00 at a time. I am very comfortable with $35, not $1,000.
I am looking to use this on one big trip per year, and maybe 12+ small trips. Plus, you never know where you'll end up. My wife didn't understand why I wanted one so bad, but she never drives the coach. For us who do drive, I find the reach terrible. I am 4-5 feet off the ground. To deliver my toll, I have to unbuckle and put my torso out the window to hand over my money and get my change.
Thanks for all the insight so far!!
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Lobstah
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PA sounds like Mass used to be, maybe still is. About 10yrs ago I was going to sign up for FastLane, the Mass equivalent to EZpass. At that time, you had to print off a pdf form, fill it out, mail it in, pay $29/transponder, and I think they limited you to 2 on an account.
A friend of mine pointed me to New Jersey EZpass online. I went there, filled out the webform, and 2 days later I had 4 transponders in my mailbox. Only charged $29 if you lose one.
A few years after that, I called them and explained I had bought a 1ton dually pickup and a fifthwheel camper, and that sometimes the truck was towing the camper, other times not. The service rep told me to put any one of my transponders in the truck and forget about it. The sensors at the tollbooth would monitor my vehicle and I would be charged the correct amount. No special transponder required.
Funny how some states make it SOOOO hard, when it just doesn't have to be. 
O/T, but I recently read an article wondering why Mass doesn't get the revenue that other states, notably NH, from their vanity plate program. Not once in the article did it mention that Mass doesn't allow a mix of letters and numbers, like everyone else does...i.e. you can ONLY use letters. Talk about a DUH. But even the author didn't get that point.
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Coach-man
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Do you have a toad? Call them back and give them that info and be done with it!
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MRUSA
Wellington, FL
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I signed up with Mass a few months ago. It took a phone call to get it right, but there was NO charge for 2 Fastlane transponders, one for the RV and one for the toad. Good in all EZPass locations. Piece of cake. I too hide the toad unit in the protective bag when towing, their system picks up the toad off the RV transponder. Otherwise, you will be double billed.
Marc, Wellington FL
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RRyall
SW PA
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Coach-man wrote:Do you have a toad? Call them back and give them that info and be done with it! Then they would nail you for being "dishonest". I tried to get one for one of the work trucks about two years ago. After talking with 4 different people and getting four different answers, I decided that since they were that screwed up, I most definitely do not want to give them any bank/credit card info. The gist of it was that since the truck was over 7000 Lbs, it is not a "car", but a "commercial vehicle", and would be charged as the OP stated, $1000 minimum on the account, and they just take your money at their whim when below a certain level. I was also informed that if I was towing, I would have to bag the transponder or it would get read wrong, as in truck only, and then I would be nailed for "cheating" them of the towed toll!!?? Since I didn't know which of the four, if any, were accurate, I just decided that I will stop and pay the toll, and I still do the same thing in the MH, even though it is a PIA.
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