{"id":30522,"date":"2025-11-10T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:57:07","slug":"pennsylvania-turnpike-targets-toll-violators-with-attorney-generals-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30522\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Turnpike targets toll violators with attorney general&#8217;s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pennsylvania Turnpike is collaborating with the attorney general&#8217;s office to pursue individuals who owe more than $12,000 in tolls and fees, with some accounts exceeding $150,000.The highest amount owed comes from a commercial account in Bucks County, totaling over $153,000, followed by another commercial account in Montgomery County with more than $116,000 in unpaid tolls.The turnpike typically collects around 93% of tolls within 60 days, but is now taking further action against those who ignore standard collection efforts.Toll collection in Pennsylvania involves three phases: initially, toll-by-plate invoices are sent to the registered owner&#8217;s address.If unpaid, the account is handed over to a collection agency. If payment is still not made, and the customer has four or more outstanding toll-by-plate invoices or owes $250 or more in tolls and fees, their vehicle registration is suspended by PennDOT.The turnpike has referred more than 100 toll violation cases to the attorney general&#8217;s office for further enforcement actions, including civil collection actions.These drivers each owe more than $12,000 in tolls and fees.Attorney General Dave Sunday said, &#8220;When people driving on our turnpike try to evade paying their tolls, it shifts the cost burden onto other law-abiding motorists.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Turnpike is collaborating with the attorney general&#8217;s office to pursue individuals who owe more than $12,000 in tolls and fees, with some accounts exceeding $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>The highest amount owed comes from a commercial account in Bucks County, totaling over $153,000, followed by another commercial account in Montgomery County with more than $116,000 in unpaid tolls.<\/p>\n<p>The turnpike typically collects around 93% of tolls within 60 days, but is now taking further action against those who ignore standard collection efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Toll collection in Pennsylvania involves three phases: initially, toll-by-plate invoices are sent to the registered owner&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p>If unpaid, the account is handed over to a collection agency. If payment is still not made, and the customer has four or more outstanding toll-by-plate invoices or owes $250 or more in tolls and fees, their vehicle registration is suspended by PennDOT.<\/p>\n<p>The turnpike has referred more than 100 toll violation cases to the attorney general&#8217;s office for further enforcement actions, including civil collection actions.<\/p>\n<p>These drivers each owe more than $12,000 in tolls and fees.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Dave Sunday said, &#8220;When people driving on our turnpike try to evade paying their tolls, it shifts the cost burden onto other law-abiding motorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Turnpike is collaborating with the attorney general&#8217;s office to pursue individuals who owe more than $12,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8522,19363,15666,9940,3649,197,4599,19364,19366,9146,200,2008,8525,12120,10397,3431,28,30,29,4696,523,19367,19362,19368,19361,19365],"class_list":["post-30522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-8-on-your-side","tag-account","tag-address","tag-attorney-general","tag-attorney-general-dave-sunday","tag-bucks-county","tag-dave-sunday","tag-fee","tag-further-action","tag-help","tag-montgomery-county","tag-office","tag-on-your-side","tag-owner","tag-pa-turnpike","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-people","tag-standard-collection-effort","tag-toll","tag-toll-violator","tag-toll-violators","tag-unpaid-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}