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Temporary plates won’t get you out of a toll bill

Dec 1, 2016, 10:46 AM

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The I-405 toll lanes in Kirkland. (WSDOT)

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There鈥檚 still confusion about the rules of tolling in Western Washington, even within the state鈥檚 department of transportation.

成人X站 Radio listener Dave Walters says he was having trouble finding information about temporary plates and new cars on the Good to Go website. He wanted to know if cars with temp plates are tolled. He reached out to the customer service center for an answer, and the representative told him he would not be tolled.

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鈥淰ehicles with temporary license plates are not charged a toll due to the placement of the cameras not being able to view the back window,鈥 the rep said in an email.

It turns out that representative is wrong. Cars with temporary paper plates are tolled, at least according to the toll division.

“We can work with the Department of Licensing and send a toll bill on a temporary plate, as long as people are installing them in the,” said toll division spokesperson Ethan Bergerson.

If the plate is obscured or in the wrong spot and the cameras can’t read it, the state will send the picture to an employee for a closer look.

Bergerson said the state has a good track record of finding drivers and giving them a bill.

“Of all the trips on all the toll roads in the state, only about 1.5 percent of them are images that can’t be read,” he said.

So for drivers with temporary license plates, be sure to add that plate to your Good to Go account the day you get it so you can save the $2 per toll, and don鈥檛 forget to update it when you get your actual license plates. Otherwise you can expect a surprise toll bill in the mail.

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