My EZPass has been mounted in this area since March 2021 and have no problems on the Illinois Tollway system.The new owners manual will actually address this. It's not released yet, but here's the new snippet:
Jim we have that system here in California. It sounds good until someone else’s license plate gets misread as yours.That happened to me with the Mach e. I don’t use “Fast Track” but got notice in the mail that camera had caught me illegally in Fast track lane. Now the notice has a picture of the back of the vehicle and the LP. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking @. First I thought it was a stock photo b/c vehicle was black and M E is space white,then I look at the LP. I go outside to see my LP and now see the difference. The vehicle in the pic is a 4 runner all# & letters are the same except my LP has a U,the 4Runner had a V at same position. The 4Runner LP frame was decorative ocean waves all the way around (Cali motif)and right where the V on The LP was there was this wave peak blocking the bottom of the V making it look like a U (to the computer). Now like this story is too long it also took me some time and effort to have this corrected. First I waited for 2 or 3 follow up notices from them to see if they would catch the mistake but no. So I had to send them photos of my M E with LP,screen photo of their vehicle with a narrative of what the computer is not seeing bla bla bla. All to prove me innocent and them wrong. They need to have people screening stuff like this. Strange but true. OK I’m done.
I hear you. No system is foolproof. I know people in Pennsylvania with EZPass tags who’ve gotten billed for plate reads because the EZPass tag wasn’t picked up for whatever mysterious reason.
Any update? I'm in northern Virginia and haven't found a spot on my windshield that the ez-pass works either.
I promise you they weren't looking for a mistake, so no chance it was going to get caught without the considerable effort you expended.
