“It was a nightmare, honestly,” Briere told me on Wednesday from her home. It started last summer, when Briere traveled to New Jersey to purchase a new vehicle. She added the temporary dealer plate to her E-ZPass account, just to make sure there were no issues with the transponder as she awaited her permanent plates in the mail. On a subsequent billing statement, Briere noticed something bizarre: There were dozens of tolls from New York and New Jersey charged to her account. The tab was more than $400. An inquiry to those transportation agencies revealed the vehicle in question had the exact same letters and numbers as her temporary dealer plate. But the other car was a Honda sedan. Briere had just purchased a new SUV.