[GH85Carrera]

For my trip to Pennsylvania in a couple of months, I wanted to get a EZ Pass. Most of the states in that area use the EZ Pass to pay the toll roads, and even parking fees. A lot of states did not sell to out of state customers. Texas does that. I can't buy a Texas turnpike pass, but finally, in recent years my Oklahoma Turnpike system PikePass will work on most Texas and Kansas turnpikes.

Florida had a simple enough system, but it was kinda dumb and could not automatically add more funds. My PikePass is free, and the only cost is to put 40 bucks in an escrow account, and the turnpike fees are withdrawn until it his 20 bucks and then $20 is added. All done automatically.

The EZ Pass will cost me a whole dollar per month just for the honor of owning it. I have to use an app on my phone to replenish funds. When I am done with it, I will have to mail it back. The Florida system was a sticker, and I just stuck it on my tool box in the garage as a souvenir when I sut down that account.

The Oklahoma system was one of the very first ones, if not the first in the nation to have payment system like that. They went from a large box I had to mount on the windshield, to a smaller box, to a sticker with just a RFID chip. Now they just read the license tag and charge my account.

The gret thing is that in Oklahoma I can pass through the turnpike gate at 75 MPH (the legal limit) and not even turn off the cruise control. When we were in NJ and NY last time I borrowed a friend's EZ Pass and we still had to go through the turnpike gates at just a virtual crawl.