Here in the state of Fla. we we use E-Z Pass and cameras to catch the toll “runners”. Works for us with very few “toll collectors”.

$65,000 to collect tolls? $49,000 to collect tolls?

My sister is a (non-union) public school teacher and she makes < $40,000.

I’m sure it’s not much fun in the winter, but seriously, neither was the drive-thru window at Starbucks I worked at for 3 years, where I made significantly less than $49,000.

So much for student loans. I should have skipped college and grad school and just moved to New Jersey.

High pay for brain dead jobs.

At best a toll collector should make just above minimum wage.
At $10 an hour thats about $20,000 a year. And they are making triple that
right now? $30 an hour?

It should not be a career and it should not include lavish benefits.

In the Dallas area all the tollways are now cashless. No stopping and no rude toll booth zombies.

$50K a year base pay to be rude, obscene, bigoted and contemptuous of others. Wait a second, are we talking about the NJ toll collectors or the Democrats in Congress?

As a monopoly, there is no competition to keep costs in line. In addition, there has been little, if any, incentive to automate and increase productivity. Without a profit/loss driver…….. govt jobs keep on being performed the same old way for years after opportunities for productivity improvements have become established in the private sector.
For years govt entites have found it easier to raise taxes/fees than to improve productivity.
Maybe the current revenue crunch and tax payer revolt will provide sufficient incentive to bring govt entities into the 21st century.

As a monopoly, there is no competition to keep costs in line. In addition, there has been little, if any, incentive to automate and increase productivity. Without a profit/loss driver…….. govt jobs keep on being performed the same old way for years after opportunities for productivity improvements have become established in the private sector.
For years govt entites have found it easier to raise taxes/fees than to improve productivity.
Maybe the current revenue crunch and tax payer revolt will provide sufficient incentive to bring govt entities into the 21st century.

I got an EZ Pass just before I moved back to California. I love it! It really speeds up the commute. Let them make 90% of the lanes EZ Pass lanes. The poor dopes backed up in the few remaining cash lanes will wise up pretty quick!

We also accept EasyPass. Supposedly we’re eventually switching to a system that does away entirely with the tollbooths and instead uses huge “arches” under which the cars pass through. Works the same way as EasyPass, but without the need to slow down at all.
The few remaining toll collectors here define the word “surly.”

The EZPass system is entirely non-anonymized – that is, the government stores records of everywhere you’ve driven within range of a reader, all easily indexed for any agency to access or any lawyer to subpoena, as has already happened multiple times. Will that harm most of us? Not really – but once again, we’ve allowed government malfeasance and waste (unionized civil-service toll collectors instead of minimum-wage contractors) to con us into yet another big-government nanny-state growth.