The new gantries are image based and database connected. They see your plate on the car and they see your plate on the trailer.
Failing that, the system sees the vehicle and trailer and can count the wheels on a side and know they are connected. It can see even relatively miniscule gaps between vehicles to individually identify them.
It is almost impossible to be too close for the cameras to distinguish the individual plates. If you managed that, you would likely have the authorities that sit at the toll area pulling you over soon after.
The old inductive loops could be fooled in some circumstances. In the older EZ PASS systems, you would have multiple transponders for when you had a trailer or not. The unused one was stored in a faraday bag to stop it from transmitting to the system.
I mounted my new iPass/EZpass stickers. I will just have to live with having them a little crooked, as much as I tried to put them on straight. Iām ocd enough that I remove the old license plate tabs before carefully mounting the new ones. Some people just keep sticking one on top of another. Not me. Every time I get in the car now, I see the crooked sticker. Maybe Iāll just have to trade cars.
Thanks, I know nothing about āEZ PASSā type stuff cause TN does not have toll roads, and the only time I delt with one was while driving in KY, and it has been toll free since mid 2006, so nothing fancy other than you stopped and threw whatever change it cost in the big net thingy and the arm raised to let you throughā¦ Other than that, I have never driven through oneā¦
But if the wife and I are able to and she has it her way, one day we will travel across the US of Aā¦ And I am sure I will run across them thenā¦ ugggā¦ lol
NJ no longer uses renewal tags on license plates, but during the period when they did require them, it provided a good way to judge the intelligence of the driver: Both front and rear plates are required in NJ, and when you renewed your registration, they would send two renewal tags, along with the new registration, and the little instruction insert stated that the tags should be applied to both plates. But it wasnāt unusual to see cars with both renewal tags on the rear plate.
Once, while walking through a crowded parking lot, I saw a trulyā¦ inspiredā¦ placement of the renewal tag. I actually saw one that had been applied to the outside of the windshield, partially covering the inspection sticker. And, because the wiper partially swiped over that area, the renewal tag was well on its way to oblivion.
Now I understand why the girl at the dealership insisted on putting the stickers on the plates. She was afraid Iād stick them on the windshield. Maybe I do look dumber than I am.
By the way, Iāve had maintainers on my mower batteries all year but they are pretty dead. Should have checked the water level I guess.
You register the boat trailer license. Then the sensors determine the number of axles and charge your account accordingly. In Minnesota though we just have lifetime stickers for small trailers. Donāt know how that would work.
In my state if you have an electronic toll pass they charge you for the number of axles you are taking through the toll area. If Iām in my pickup alone itās the standard fee. If Iām towing a tandem axle trailer I pay for the extra axles.
Look at the video I put a link to in response to Bing. Clearly shows how EZ-Pass detects axles on a truck or towing a trailer. Has NOTHING to do with license plate.
Barky is in Wisconsin but travels to Minnesota. Every state can be different. Not everyone takes the ez pass yet. Minnesota had the mnpass until they got with the program and adopted ez pass. Florida has about five different options that now includes ez pass. I hear New York is weird with their bridge tolls.
I still dont know exactly what minnesota charges for. We went to the auto show in Minneapolis. When I checked my illinois toll account, I had two one dollar charges For something. Not sure what yet. I have the iPass transponder on the car so it keyed on that. Maybe it was using HOV or congestion charge. There were two of us so shouldnāt have been HOV. Who knows? Minnesota is very very screwy right now with incompetents in charge throughout. Still waiting for my tax check to clear. Used to require daily deposits to reduce theft and fraud.
