Kitty4670 wrote:
Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
I have been getting lots of scam text messages saying I owe money for toll roads.
I used to get those texts too, what are toll road?
A toll road is a road which you have to pay a toll to drive on in order to pay for the road. They are often built by private companies who then have a contract to operate the toll roads and keep the tolls until they make their money back along with plenty of interest/profit.
It used to be that they had manned toll booths, one per lane, at various places along the route. The drivers would slow down or stop to pay the toll. Often, there was a basket at the toll booth and they could toss the money into the basket.
A few years ago they introduced the use of transponders that would be used to record the vehicle and to bill the driver's account automagically. I think that they now often use license plate readers, but I'm not sure since I haven't been on a toll road in about thirty years.