Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

That is some bull crap. Everything is so designed that you would probably just take it to a dealer to replace.

 

Yes, if not more, plus it adds a level of complexity to my office operations. I have mostly employee drivers but we also use 2 independent contractors that we reimburse tolls. Traditionally we have given them transponders, but once the transponders go away, we will have to pay them estimated tolls and then reconcile later when they get the pay by plate invoice.

Also, our Illinois dealer plates all have the same base number, only the last letter is different and not every state can read that correctly, so when we get toll by plate in the mail it is difficult to assign the toll to the correct trip/truck for accounting purposes. We bill the transportation costs against the individual truck (since they are both our cargo and our inventory for sale), and accurate accounting is important to not over or under pay the salesperson that sells the truck.

This pay by plate crap adds a level of admin to our process that is unwarranted and unnecessary. It is bad enough with traditional transponders, because we move a wide variety of trucks, so our drivers carry a car, a 2 axle commercial and a 5 axle commercial already. If not, we end up overpaying for tolls, and once the physical transponder is gone and we have to use window stickers we won't even be able to have them on our cars because there will be no way to remove it when hauling the car on the trucks we are delivering (we move tow trucks and car haulers). Currently, if we don't remove our car's transponder and put blue tape over the car's license plate we get false toll charges. This will only make it worse!

 

Unfortunately they don't work that way. We have tried with the T-tag and K-tag that the Texas and Kansas tolls use. The sticker relies upon the whole windshield glass to help amplify the radio signal reception, and when it is on just a small piece of glass it won't read properly. At least that has been our experience with the T-tag and K-tags.

 

Well finally got up and over Vail and Eisenhower today both east and westbound through the tunnel is about a 2 1/2 hour back up…

It snowed this morning shut the highway down pre-dawn hours, but it was in decent condition when I went over…

Didn’t see any accidents of any kind so I’m not sure what the delay was but had to deal with one bozo doing 10 miles an hour east of the Eisenhower tunnel holding traffic up in the right lane

 

I can buy a keyboard, monitor, mouse or whatever from any company on the planet, plug it into dang near any computer made in this century, and it will just work. But these parts made for that specific vehicle can't possibly be plug-and-play? What a farkin' ripoff.

 

Cooling fan is a bit much....

 

I have an Illinois IPass sticker in my pickup truck. It's not attached, just laying on top of the dash, in case I switch vehicles. Had it about a year, seems to work as intended.

 

Tape it on with clear packing tape. Makes it easy to move