My step son tried playing with hctra and lost bad. He noticed he wasn't getting charged for going through the tolls anymore and rather than calling to find out why, he just let it go, thinking he was getting away with something good. When their lawyers finally caught up with him he owed $3600! They explained that at one point his card payment was denied so they deactivated that card on file and sent him letters but since he didn't bother updating his address he never got the notices. The lawyer offered to settle with a one time payment of $1800 but he couldn't do that so he had to pay the entire amount off within one year. He called us crying and begging for help. We told him -sorry, lesson learned.
@Maisey1: There are numerous stories about that on the Web (involving not updating CC's more than just being dumb like me and can't read) like your boy's with even more $. It's a shame they can charge so much and not work with people. Some owe over 10K for a cpl hundred in toll charges. I called the HCTRA but since it's already went to the collection agency/atty's (same one's that collect for property taxes) she couldn't help me. I hear they (coll agency) are real tough to deal with (threatening and cocky) I'm not even going to call them and just pay it.I've always heard if you get a ticket w/out an easy tag you can get one and they will forgive the tickets. That's only if it is recent and haven't gone to collection which all of mine have.
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