[MBZ] OT: EZ Pass transceiver

2022-07-21 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
The EZ Pass transceiver in my Jetta fell off the windshield a couple weeks ago. I was pondering it the other day and googled "EZ Pass fell off windshield". Found a couple posts that suggested that the EZ Pass people would send new velcro if you asked them. I jumped on EZ Pass NH (I've got a Ne

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2022-07-21 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
You are easily amused. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 21, 2022, at 8:20 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > The EZ Pass transceiver in my Jetta fell off the windshield a couple weeks > ago. I was pondering it the other day and googled "EZ Pass fell off > windshield". Found a couple po

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2022-07-21 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
We have both the “stick on” and suction cup style transceivers. When I had to replace a windshield a while back on one of our cars with the stick on transceiver, I peeled it off of the old windshield and just taped it to the new one. The Sunpass FAQ has all sorts of warnings about why you’re not

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2022-07-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
The sooner you get your velcro replaced, the sooner you will start running up your bill for tolls. And that makes them very happy. On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 11:06 AM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > We have both the “stick on” and suction cup style transceivers. > > When

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2022-07-21 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
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2022-07-21 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
EZ pass is too big brother for me. I get how they are photographing us anyway as we pass through the tolls but why voluntarily give them any more info. I’ll stick to cash lane and no transponder to fall off! Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 21, 2022, at 10:20 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote

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2022-07-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I'd rather zip through the tolls at 70mph. Or rather I would if some dope without an EZ pass didn't read the signs and slows down to a crawl. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 2:26 AM, Dimitri Seretakis wrote: EZ pass is too big brother for me. I get how they ar

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2022-07-22 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Not an option for SunPass - they no longer take cash tolls. If you don’t want to do a transceiver, they send you bills based on your plate number that include some outrageous administrative fees. -D > On Jul 21, 2022, at 11:26 PM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes > wrote: > > EZ pass is too bi

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2022-07-22 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Looks like Dimitri will have to return to Greece after all. We will miss him. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 8:50 AM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Not an option for SunPass - they no longer take cash tolls. If you don’t > want to do a transceiver, they send you bills based

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2022-07-22 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Yeah and I’ll be looking back at the banana republic which is the US and I’ll be laughing.. crumbling infrastructure, Wild West shootings every few days, insipid food, cold and shark infested waters, hideous plastic asphalt ensconced houses, restaurants closing at 8pm, friendships of conveni

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2022-07-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
"dubious election processes" Because the Greek government is such a paragon of efficiency and transparency... -Curt On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 09:14:45 AM EDT, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: Yeah and I’ll be looking back at the banana republic which is the US and I’ll be laughing

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2022-07-22 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Hey what's it like driving up into Oppressionland these days up I-95 from DC to BOS?  I am taking a road trip in October up that way and want to know how much NJ/NY etc will rape me and what I need to do to prepare to pay the Great Usurpers for driving on the shite roads. Also I know I can't ca

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2022-07-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
The reduction in toll booths has really sped up traffic. MA has no toll booths at all anymore, they just bill you by mail. Apparently NY has seen the light and is going the same way. Get an EZ pass and you don't need to worry about it. We drove the GW through NYC a couple months ago, IIRC the wh

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2022-07-22 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
The election process in Greece is not fraught with fraud. We invented democracy. We know how it’s done. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2022, at 9:36 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: > > "dubious election processes" > Because the Greek government is such a paragon of efficiency and > transparency..

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2022-07-22 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
No, it’s fraught with political patronage. That, and partisan polarization isn’t ideological as it is here, it’s strategic, as in the parties trying to hold the state and control it’s resources. In other words, the party in power uses inducements to try and and recruit non-ideological voters tha

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2022-07-22 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
we don't have cash lane on the Newport (RI) bridge. only EZ pass & plate camera On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 2:27 AM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > EZ pass is too big brother for me. I get how they are photographing us > anyway as we pass through the tolls but why volun

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2022-07-22 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
I think nearly all of the toll authorities are getting rid of cash lanes for the obvious reasons. I know they’re gone in the Orlando area, and that’s a huge mess of toll roads, no doubt to separate all the touristas from their money. I think south Florida just ditched them, too. I-95 is toll dow

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2022-07-22 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
OK is working on going plate pay, which it is on a few toll roads. You can’t really get into and out of major cities or across the state without running into toll roads. Surprisingly I40 that runs damn near across the whole country is not toll thru OK. Just about all other interstates are. Sent

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2022-07-22 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
How do I get an ezpass freedom infringement device? --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jul 22, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > we don't have cash lane on the Newport (RI) bridge. only EZ pass & plate > camera > >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 2:27 AM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes <

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2022-07-22 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
A lot of places don't have a cash lane anymore. They take a photo of your plate and send you a bill for the toll, plus a "convenience fee." On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, at 2:26 AM, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: > EZ pass is too big brother for me. I get how they are photographing us > anyway a

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2022-07-22 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
I-40 isn’t a toll road anywhere I've driven on it. You’ve got all those rural state highways that are toll. I remember when I was driving the 2002 E320 home from your neighborhood and I hit one of the little automated toll collection baskets getting on to one of them. I didn’t have any change,

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2022-07-22 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
You could get one of those polarized license plate covers that goobers up your plate when the cameras take a picture. -D > On Jul 22, 2022, at 8:35 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > How do I get an ezpass freedom infringement device? > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jul 22, 2

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2022-07-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Pick your state and Google "EZ pass *state name*" Each state gives you a different incentive. I chose NH because it gives a discount on all NH tolls. MA only discounts a couple tunnels in Boston that I rarely use, ME discounts after a certain number of trips per month that I'll never hit so NH m

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2022-07-22 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I see those sometimes and wonder how people get away with it. AFAIK any attempt to obstruct your plate is illegal. I'm sure people use all sorts of freedom arguments to get out of it, I bet they work as well as the "Sovereign Citizen" bs. -Curt On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 11:50:59 AM EDT, dan

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2022-07-22 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Around here, license plate violations don't seem to be enforced much anymore. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > I see those sometimes and wonder how people get away with it. AFAIK any > attempt to obstruct your plate is illegal. I'm sure people use all > sorts

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2022-07-22 Thread Frederick Moir via Mercedes
Democracy from the Greek demos. We learned it all from them, and then put our own spin on it. Dubious indeed! Fred On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 9:14 AM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yeah and I’ll be looking back at the banana republic which is the US and > I’ll be la

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2022-07-22 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-22 11:53, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I see those sometimes and wonder how people get away with it. AFAIK any attempt to obstruct your plate is illegal. I'm sure people use all sorts of freedom arguments to get out of it, I bet they work as well as the "Sovereign Citizen" bs. I

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2022-07-22 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Sure there is political corruption in Greece as there is here but rampant voter fraud is virtually unheard of. Voter ID is required in Greece as it is in the rest of Europe. In Greece your vote counts. Here on the other hand? If you don’t have secure elections, your country is a banana republic.

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2022-07-22 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Luckily, I rarely use any other toll stations but the ones in Maine. They just re-did them and there are still 2 cash lanes. Apparently, Mainers like their cash. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Dwight Giles wrote: > >  > we don't have cash lane on the Newport (RI) bridge.

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2022-07-22 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Some years ago we spent about 10days touring around seeing a lot of the ancient sites, stayed in little towns and hotels and ate at local restaurants.  It was really wonderful.  Amazingly enough every place we stayed the innkeeper either had retired from some business (restaurant, hotel) in the

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2022-07-22 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
> Apparently, Mainers like their cash. Years ago several Illinois toll takers were busted for taking cash tolls, and not putting it in the till. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2011-03-31-ct-met-tollway-inspector-0401-20110331-story.html#:~:text=A%20former%20toll%20collector%20for%20t