The in basket: William Nickerson asks a couple of question about
bridge tolls at the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma.
He wants to know if a car with a transponder is sold, does the
buyer have to buy a new transponder for $12 or can the existing
transponder be assigned to the buyer’s account or a new one the
buyer establishes.
He also wonders what a motor home with no transponder and towing a
car pays at the toll booths.
The in basket: William Nickerson asks a couple of question about
bridge tolls at the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma.
He wants to know if a car with a transponder is sold, does the
buyer have to buy a new transponder for $12 or can the existing
transponder be assigned to the buyer’s account or a new one the
buyer establishes.
He also wonders what a motor home with no transponder and towing a
car pays at the toll booths.
The out basket: Jessica Yasenchak of the Good to Go! toll
collection office recommends that the car’s seller remove the
transponder before surrendering the car.
“Basically, the original customer is responsible for all toll
charges incurred on that transponder,” she said. “The customer
protects him/herself by
removing the transponder from the vehicle and then from the
account. If
he/she delays at all or forgets, any toll transactions that post to
the
account by the new owner of the car will still be the original
owner’s
responsibility.
“If on a case-by-case basis, a customer was to contact us and ask
to
transfer the transponder from one account to another, that is
something
we can accommodate,” she said. “I really wouldn’t recommend it,
though, unless you
know the person buying the vehicle.”
The motor home towing the car would pay $6 at the toll booth, $1.50
for each of the four axles. Though the toll is almost always stated
at $3 at the booth and $1.75 in the electronic lanes, it’s really a
per axle charge, $1.50 per at the booth and, in the transponder
lanes, 90 cents per axle added to the basic $1.75 toll for the
first two axles.
