What is this?
Well, the São Paulo highways are excellent, but they are privatized and tolled. So whenever we traveled, we lost some time in tolls, counting coins and small money and it ended when we began to pay for the service from Easy Way and Without Stop companies.
For a modest monthly price already discounted in the current account, the company provides us an E-ZPass electronic gadget we preach in windshield of our car and when we go through tolls, we drove to a special band and we own the track without stopping, literally. An antenna reads the number of the gadget, called "tag", and then electronically charge the owner of the tag.
Well, since some time to now, always we passed in tolls some electronic charts were informing us something like "Free passage: violated tag."
I called the company of tags and I was told that possibly the gadget was removed from where it was preached and represented a violation of the tag. He could not be removed in any way, because people could use it illegally.
How so? Now, if someone steals your tag, he will pass through the tolls normally, but the bill will come in your name. If the tag, the gadget, does not have this safety mechanism, a real market for stolen tags could form. After all, we are in Brazil. Since with the security mechanism, it becomes more difficult to misuse, because sooner or later, some toll gate will lock and your violated tag will be investigated.
I called the company of tags and I was told that possibly the gadget was removed from where it was preached and represented a violation of the tag. He could not be removed in any way, because people could use it illegally.
How so? Now, if someone steals your tag, he will pass through the tolls normally, but the bill will come in your name. If the tag, the gadget, does not have this safety mechanism, a real market for stolen tags could form. After all, we are in Brazil. Since with the security mechanism, it becomes more difficult to misuse, because sooner or later, some toll gate will lock and your violated tag will be investigated.
Many people, like me, move the tag for some reason, and then puts it back. I did this once time fearing that smart bandits, but ignorant of technological advances, tried to steal the tag, which is always visible on the windshield, thinking it a GPS or something. But removing it was a mistake.
Well, the solution was to change the tag at the risk of being barred sooner or later at some toll worldwide.
Today, we changed the tag. My wife called the company again, noted a number of protocol and with that number, we went to a Without Stop kiosk in a mall in the city and changed the gadget.
We left the mall very happy, certain that we will never see the damn warning "violated tag" the next time we travel. And will travel soon, because soon my grandmother will one hundred years old. That's right: my maternal grandmother is a centenarian. This deserves a trip.
So, no violated tags... change your tag and travel easy.
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