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mommucked said:
I've driven the western 540 toll road from Rtp/I40 south to 55 in Holly Springs 5 times w my S-10, w the tailgate down and I have never received a bill in the mail. They apparently can't read my tag w the tailgate down.
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Correct, they can't read the tag with the tailgate down. If you do it enough times with the same patterns/timeframes, they will start a log and then relay that information to the SHP. They can read tags while pulling a trailer but the tailgate blocks it. Pretty sure its against NC Law to ride down a toll road with the tailgate down. YMMV
 
RatLabGuy said:
Also - apparently carrying out on the field during spontaneous games is cool too.
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I teach NC CHP classes. The field and stands can be posted during organized events. If it is not an organized event they cannot post it. This falls under the section referring to parks and greenways and was clarified as some cities were trying to ban conceal carry in all city parks.

General Assembly further amended G.S. 14-415.23, changing the definition of recreational facilities to include only:

  • athletic fields, “including any appurtenant facilities such as restrooms,” but only during scheduled, organized athletic events
  • swimming pools, “including any appurtenant facilities used for dressing, storage of personal items, or other uses related to the swimming pool”
  • “[a] facility used for athletic events, including, but not limited to, a gymnasium”
 
YJJPWrangler said:
Correct, they can't read the tag with the tailgate down. If you do it enough times with the same patterns/timeframes, they will start a log and then relay that information to the SHP. They can read tags while pulling a trailer but the tailgate blocks it. Pretty sure its against NC Law to ride down a toll road with the tailgate down. YMMV
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Just wait until NC starts requiring front license plates, just like all of the others that have a lot of toll roads. Then there is nowhere to hide it.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Just wait until NC starts requiring front license plates, just like all of the others that have a lot of toll roads. Then there is nowhere to hide it.
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The technology for toll roads is pretty cool and can capture a lot of information. The cameras can capture images at high speeds 120mph+ and can easily capture motorcycle tags etc. As of right now, the 540/147 is the only operating toll road in NC. I77 may/may not get the tolls installed as there is a HUGE resistance to adding the tolls. There has been talk of completing the road but deleting the toll requirements. Monroe bypass should be open by the end of year and will have the same tolling requirements as 540/147. There are also plans to add HOT lanes to 485 on the southern portion of the road. The toll roads in NC are in so much better shape than other highways as inspections and routine maintenance occur all the time. Now if we could only fix the other roads with the highway funding/gas taxes etc. :rolleyes:
 
YJJPWrangler said:
The technology for toll roads is pretty cool and can capture a lot of information. The cameras can capture images at high speeds 120mph+ and can easily capture motorcycle tags etc.
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I wish I still had the actual letter, but this is a close representation of the picture sent to me claiming my truck and license plate had been captured on the 540 toll road. I sent them back a picture of the truck sitting in the yard with a flat tire and the motor missing.....

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Duane
 
YJJPWrangler said:
The technology for toll roads is pretty cool and can capture a lot of information. The cameras can capture images at high speeds 120mph+ and can easily capture motorcycle tags etc. :rolleyes:
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What is extra freaky is that up around DC there are EZPass HOV lanes that have a toll UNLESS you have 4 passengers, then they are free. But there's no gate w/ a guy to get on it or anything... all done w/ cameras and machine vision to count bodies in a car.

That reminds me, I need to check my account out of curiosity, When we came down to NC a few weeks ago, when I went down that road, wife and both kids were asleep... slumped over pretty much invisible from outside.
 
YJJPWrangler said:
Correct, they can't read the tag with the tailgate down. If you do it enough times with the same patterns/timeframes, they will start a log and then relay that information to the SHP. They can read tags while pulling a trailer but the tailgate blocks it. Pretty sure its against NC Law to ride down a toll road with the tailgate down. YMMV
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This was 4-5 years ago when I worked in RTP and had to leave work and rush to help my 70s father recover deer he shot in 2 seasons.I only drove south from I-40 to 55. I avoid the damn toll roads and will likely not use the new stretch very often once it is completed.
 
RatLabGuy said:
What is extra freaky is that up around DC there are EZPass HOV lanes that have a toll UNLESS you have 4 passengers, then they are free. But there's no gate w/ a guy to get on it or anything... all done w/ cameras and machine vision to count bodies in a car.

That reminds me, I need to check my account out of curiosity, When we came down to NC a few weeks ago, when I went down that road, wife and both kids were asleep... slumped over pretty much invisible from outside.
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I remember seeing a few guys with a dummy riding shotgun on the HOV lanes, south of Lorton Va. when I worked there a few times. I also saw a motorcycle get pulled over on the HOV lane. It was a bitch to be stuck in the traffic beside the HOV lanes and watching peeps flying by while we sat still. This was 10 yrs. ago or so and the rush hour traffic north and south seemed to be more like 4 hours a.m/pm. We worked there on and off for a month or so and drove home on friday. We learned the first week to get the hell out of there about 3pm or spend 3-4 hours just to get to Richmond. I remember thinking no job could pay me enough to deal with that traffic every morning and afternoon.
 
junkxj said:
I have camped many a night in the gorge.
One night many years ago I thought it would be a good idea to finish off a bottle of that stuff while camping next to the river.
Hiking the cabin trail out the next day told me other wise............
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That's not a trail. That's where people regularly happen to walk straight down the side of the mountain. Same with Pinch-in.
 
jeepinmatt said:
That's not a trail. That's where people regularly happen to walk straight down the side of the mountain. Same with Pinch-in.
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I have taken many a " experienced " backpacker into the gorge with me, and tell them the trail out is a little steep, but only 3/4 of a mile long. They seem happy until I tell them you cant start bitching about it until we have been been climbing that 3/4 mile trail for more than an hour.......
 
Had one of the scariest nature experiences of my life in Linville Gorge when I was in college.

We were trout fishing in the gorge, no cell phones or such technology as it was 97-98ish. Pop up thunderstorm and its is a gulley washer. Within maybe 2 minutes tops we go from calf deep wading to being several feet up the bank and it being chest deep as me and my bud scramble out of there. I literally cant describe how fast the water rose. And them banks are easy to climb covered in a sheet of running water.
 
jeepinmatt said:
That's not a trail. That's where people regularly happen to walk straight down the side of the mountain. Same with Pinch-in.
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Also why they give a lot fewer permits for over night.. like stupid few. I don't think most people head it either.
junkxj said:
I have taken many a " experienced " backpacker into the gorge with me, and tell them the trail out is a little steep, but only 3/4 of a mile long. They seem happy until I tell them you cant start bitching about it until we have been been climbing that 3/4 mile trail for more than an hour.......
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Take them next to the Art Leob trail Where it jumps the Blue Ridge. Get a topo map out. When all the Squiggly lines merge and line up in the V-shape your in the right place. I've never bombed off a hill side wearing a heavy pack and carrying a full days water supply like that in my life. Talk about your hind-end passing you! Going down might have been way more dangerous then climbing.

I came out of the gorge one time with a flask of whisky.....who'd thunk water would have been a better idea....stupid youngster was I.
 
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