SunPass Crackdown Takes Heavy Toll On Some Users

Rich Shopes from the Tampa Tribune write this excellent report about sunpass

 
TAMPA - Cynthia Hill racked up more than $3,000 in fines for unpaid tolls after her husband borrowed her car last summer to get to his job at MacDill Air Force Base.

The battery for the car’s dashboard transponder ran low, but Hill didn’t realize […]

Judge refuses to reconsider E-Pass tickets

 
Now we need a judge in Miami to step up to MDX….

News Talk AM 580 WDBO - Orlando,FL,USA, is reporting …We told you that the Florida Department of Transportation was asking a Seminole County judge who threw out thousand of tickets to E-Pass drivers to reconsider.Friday morning, Circuit Judge John Galluzzo denied that request and […]

Rental cars won’t need transponders to travel through SunPass lanes

A press release beautifully explains how rental cars won’t need transponders to use the SUNPASS, but the regular motorist who spent $25 must continue to suffer with the bureaucratic morass created by Sunpass in dealing with the millions of citations its faulty system issues. Rental companies obviously tired of this whole mess are able […]

Welcome to the SUNPASS ticket Club.

The press release below welcomes Leeway transponder holders to the SUNPASS system, little do they know about the citation hell/scam that awaits them.

LEEWAY® NOW COMPATIBILE WITH SUNPASS AND E-PASS Customers Must Automatically Reprogram Transponders Purchased Before January 2004 at Service Center Fort Myers, FL (June 1, 2004) - LeeWay® (www.leewayinfo.com) today announced that LeeWay is […]

Free SUNPASS? It’ll cost you, trust me.

They’ve become one of the hottest government events in South Florida, Sunpass sales where the local toll authority practically gives away the transponders. But who’s paying for these discounted transponders, you guessed it, you are! http://video.aol.com/video-detail/are-you-saving-money-on-sunpass-sales/1240002932 This report from a local Florida news stations shows how MDX is using funds to subsidies these cheap transponders, […]

If you received any Violation Notices and are a SunPass Account Holder, do the following- it sounds so simple, not!!

Unpaid Toll Notice

Receipt of an Unpaid Toll Notice may mean one or more of the following:

 
There is inaccurate license plate information on your SunPass account;

The transponder is mounted incorrectly, or not mounted, which results in your transponder functioning intermittently and causing toll violations; or

The batteries in the transponder need to be replaced.

Florida State Law (Statute […]

Another SUNPASS Love Story

SUNPASS ( SAME AS E-PASS, O-PASS OR LEEWAY) SUCKS!!!

I have a vehicle registered in my name but my fiance also drives the vehicle using a SUNPASS ( same as e-pass, o-pass or leeway) transponder which is in his name. The problem is the transponder was not deducting the tolls, there […]

FDOT says the Judge is WRONG, no way

The Florida Department of Transportation wants Circuit Judge John Galluzzo who dissmissed an estimated 7,000 traffic tickets to reassess his ruling. FDOT says it’s too wide-ranging. The FDOT has filed court documents to ask Circuit Judge John Galluzzo for a rehearing of the case. The case involved drivers with malfunctioning transponders used to pay tolls. […]

The case that started the end

This is a full copy of the decision of a case that will begin to put an end to the abuses of sunpass holders.

 

 

 

 

 
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA

APPELLATE DIVISION

APPEAL CASE NO. 08-32 AP

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Customer Agreement- at your own risk

Below is a copy of the customer agreement for sunpass found on their website. Be sure you know what you are agreeing to, it could be costly.

 
SunPass® Customer Agreement

March 2007

This SunPass® Customer Agreement (hereafter referred to as “Agreement”) is entered into between you (hereafter referred to as “User”) and the Florida Department of Transportation […]


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