Texas Toll Booths Shape Up And Ship Out

In Dallas, the North Texas Tollway Authority, an entity responsible for collecting tolls, has been under fire for months over its toll collecting policy. This policy charges drivers who do not pay up at the toll booth fines of hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars. Because the NTTA has been scrutinized by the public, it announced today that they are taking two steps it says that will target improving customer satisfaction. The first measure that the NTTA took was to allow all drivers to utilize the electronic toll collection lanes, including those who do not have one. They can do this without being punished with a twenty five dollar fine. Before this measure, drivers without toll tags that utilized the electronic lanes on the Dallas North Tollway were seen at as violators and would be fined twenty five dollars for each time they passed through an electronic toll booth, rather than a cash booth after the fact. But after February eighth, the drivers who don’t have a toll tag who use the electronic lanes will be given the chance to pay off the tolls before being hit with the additional twenty five dollar fine. But these toll charges will continue to be calculated at the cash rate, which is twice as high as the rates paid by toll tag consumers. Despite all this, the change won’t affect the NTTA’s collections policy in any other way and it will not stop consumers with no toll tags and who do not pay off toll bills sent to their homes from being charged twenty five dollars for every unpaid toll. This is a policy that can turn a week’s worth of tolls into a thousand dollar bill. The NTTA’s second move was to appoint an internal auditor as a sort of mediator, which will be available to frustrated customers who have already complained their way through NTTA customer service hierarchy without a result that was satisfactory. The auditor will then review the account and decide if customer service and billing reps have followed their own rules. Mallory Megan works for Rapid Recovery Solution, a new york collection agency. Looking for credit card services or skip tracing? Contact us today. This article, Texas Toll Booths Shape Up And Ship Out has free reprint rights.