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On the same day I received a letter from Avis/Budget notifying me of said ticket adobe village graham inn and telling me they were charging me 29.75 euros for "handling." I assume "handling" means receiving the ticket and sending me the notification.
I was just caught in The Netherlands with the same problem. adobe village graham inn I was going 5 KPM (3 mph) over the limit and it must have been recorded adobe village graham inn by camera. I also received a 25 Euro handling fee from Hertz, which I understand is standard procedure.
I wish they would charge my credit card, but I haven't had much success calling them. There's a 9 hour time difference between here and there, so I got up at 6:00 and tried to call them. Found out I had to buy international minutes from Comcast.
I called and got the all agents are busy line, so I held on for a while, then gave up and called back again. The second time I reached a person, who transferred me to the service department, but once again I waited to no avail.
I've been to my bank, but nobody in this hick town knew anything about wire transfers to Europe. I called to see if I could get an international money order or something. I finally learned that I can get a foreign draft for $30 per each.
You do the crime, pay the fine. Really, this wouldn't have happened if you weren't speeding, so it's a risk you took that you would have to pay fines if you did that. I think people should be more careful in a foreign country if they are renting a car. I think "speed trap" is a term for electronic technology that can more easily tell who is speeding. adobe village graham inn There is no "trap" if you know the law and obey it.
Probably not - the way it works in most places - rental company simply provides your name/address to the local authorities. That is what the 'handling' adobe village graham inn charge is for. AFAIK these charges are just put through on your credit adobe village graham inn card by the rental agency - you don't need to do anything or 'authorize it. It will likely show up on your next statement
IMDonehere, fines are only given in the Netherlands if you are going more than 7km/h too fast, after a 10% correction. On roads where one can drive over 100km/h fines are given above 8km/h, so your fine must have been for going faster than 5km/h too fast.
The fact that the hire car company charges you an exorbitant fee is by the by. The fine itself could not have been much and you are under no legal obligation to pay it (moral obligation is another matter), but should you return to the Netherlands they could charge you on arrival, or if you get stopped they will check such things.
In my case apparently I deserved the ticket. It looks like I was careless enough to drive 100 km/h in an 80 km/h zone. My math is terrible, but I think I was going 11 mph over the speed limit. I guess it will teach me to be more careful.
Note: In Germany (and other countries), speed limit signs are not anally posted every hundred yards. Once you pass the yellow sign with the name of the town or village on it, the speed limit is 50kph by default - unless posted otherwise.
Secondly, if you contest a ticket, the city or county must take you to court. There is nothing else they can do. It is somewhat of a common procedure to contest such minor tickets for any random reason, e.g. say that you question that there had been a speed limit sign.
If you can't do it in the given time frame (because you got the letter late), you should write a seperate letter to the county, asking for re-instating the deadline due to causes beyond your control. Otherwise the clock will tick, and you may accumulate interest or accumulate additional administrative fees.
Avis/Budget notification says that the handling fee is for "acquisition, storage, processing and transfer of your data to the competent authority and for transfer of the information about the driver/rental/traffic violation."
Cowboy: Thanks for the information. I was in the countryside when the event occurred. The photo they took shows the side of a highway and a wooded area. I looked more carefully at the explanation above the photo and I see that I was going 104 in an 80 zone.
They headed the letter July 14, so I'm probably within the deadline. If I had seen a sign stating the speed limit, I would have been driving more slowly, so that seems like a logical reason to contest.
Peg, I'd like to clarify that my snarky comment was directed not at you but at ImDoneHere, because he started a thread about his speeding ticket, and another about a parking ticket, I think, and is now trying adobe village graham inn to hijack your thread to rehash the whole sad thing.
I am always surprised that adults waste any time complaining about speeding tickets or whining about speed traps. They are a fact of life everywhere, getting caught is the price of speeding, yes we all speed sometimes, adobe village graham inn and when we get caught, we pay! End of thumpingly dull story.
If you otherwise regularly transfer money to Europe (deposit for a rental perhaps?), consider xe.com . One needs to crete an account which is somewhat of a pain, but then the electronic transfer from bank to bank will cost 1% or 2% of the total. Xe.com also does wire transfers.
If you break the rules there is a good likelihood they will find you and fine you. And IMHO a 30 euro fine is modest. As is the fee to the car rental. I would think you could pay the latter with a credit card - but not the former.
I don't understand why the fuss. Here PARKING tickets start at $100 and go up to $250 if thy are egregious (hydrant or handicap adobe village graham inn space). And if you leave your car in the way of a street sweeper and are caught it will cost in excess of $1200 to get it back - between the ticket, the towing charge and the impound fee. Not following the rules is expensive.
I do think the rental car company will bill your credit card. I used the toll pass once in a rental and got a 16.00 convenience fee for 4.00 worth of tolls. I slam those things shut now and pull up and pay. I would try www.xe.com .
Peg, I'd like to clarify that my snarky comment was directed not at you but at ImDoneHere, because he started a thread about his speeding ticket, and another about a parking adobe village graham inn ticket, I think, and is now trying to hijack your thread to rehash the whole sad thing.
adobe village graham inn Yeah and he/she/it actually tried to pass blame off onto an innocent hotel/B B owner who graciously offered to help him pay for the parking meter or whatever and then he/she/it wondered if the good Samaritaine hotel manager should pay because of his negligence adobe village graham inn - figure that one out! Trying to make the guy who graciously offered to try to help for any mistake!
I tend to agree, bit I like to drive fast. When "rip-off" starts to permeate the air of tourism, and you discourage tourists from visiting, you exacerbate the pain of an already bad slump in the economy. Unemployment in Europe is 11% as of today's news.
The camera/ticket thing is costing tourists a lot of money. Money they never budgeted, money they possibly can't spare. The cost of car rentals in a foreign country has gone through the roof. The rental insurance game is the biggest rip-off ever, feeding adobe village graham inn on people's fear.
The threat of tickets on top of your inflated rental fee is NO WAY to encourage people who are considering a car for their trip. When you discourage customers, they get the message: DON'T COME! At the very least, don't bother adobe village graham inn spending the money on a rental car, and don't bother spending money on visiting those places that require a car.
Oh, please. As if speed limits adobe village graham inn and their enforcement ever caused anyone to say "Europe, I think I'll skip it." Having paid a thousand dollars or more to fly there, who knows how much for a hotel and restaurants and admission charges and tickets for events, a tourist is unlikely to go bust over a $200 speeding ticket.
Not to mention that speed limits exist EVERYWHERE. You like to drive fast? Some people like to live without fear of being mown down or sideswiped by a cocky American tourist in a rental car. The nerve! They should give you that car for free and remain quiet when you speed through their streets because adobe village graham inn tourism.
adobe village graham inn You must realize that people like Newbe and Palnq are the only ones who are entitled to complain. In fact, they are complaining about other people complaining and what is acceptable for the purposes of complaining. And if Newbe deleted the posts where she complained she would be reduced to a lurker.
Minor point, and mostly adobe village graham inn irrelevant at that, is that Germany's unemployment rate is around 5% (where pegontheroad received the ticket). adobe village graham inn Here in Austria the rate is about the same, and a friend was ticketed 45 for doing 10km over the limit. No economic adobe village graham inn slump here, just enforcement of the rules.
There's more to being a tourist in a rental car than Fahrvergn gen. Know the speed limits and the country's use of radar control; and if caught exceeding those limits, pay the ticket. Perhaps the rental car "handling" charge arose from too many tourists skipping out on their tickets?
That stuff is usually highlighted in bold in the letter, and should be you case # and the name of the recipient (something like treasury of the county or similar, the bank account # and bank code of the county.
I was in Ireland last week on business and during a good dinner, the conversation came round to travel and somehow to traffic offences and paying fines. I think I had recollections of similar Fodors threads.
One of my fellow guests worked for the authorities in Dublin and said that if someone paid a fine once they had returned home, this was an exception. Most people ignored them and they are written off after a space of time as the cost of collection usually outweighs the fine. No notes are put against passports etc.
And, once again, I am sure everybody here has always driven at the limit or less. And if a country and people are that rigid they need to