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NTTA Tracking Down Out-Of-State Tollway Violators

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Sep 9, 2008 9:44 pm US/Central

NTTA Tracking Down Out-Of-State Tollway Violators

Reporting
Jack Fink
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― A new effort is in the works to crackdown against toll road cheats from out of state.

When people from out of state repeatedly don't pay their tolls, there's very little - if anything - the North Texas Tollway Authority can do to make them pay.

But now, NTTA officials say it plans on working with the Alliance for Toll Operators to exchange nationwide databases so they can collect from more out of state violators.

The NTTA will also soon exchange databases from Oklahoma to track down violators. Officials estimate 60 percent of out-of-state toll violators are from the Sooner State.

NTTA says in one case, between 2000 and 2007, Groendyke Transport of Oklahoma racked up more than 12,000 toll violations worth nearly $9,000.

Officials only identified the company after getting a close-up of its truck's mud-flaps. They didn't have access to Oklahoma's license plate database.

The NTTA says Groendyke Transport has paid half of what it owes back. The company's executive vice president says they give all of their driver's toll tags nationwide, and says the violations were not intentional.

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