Bar Code Stickers on Car's Back Passenger Window

[Anonymous]

I am constantly seeing cars with large bar code stickers on their back passenger side window. Why? Is it an access code?

[Anonymous]

I have noticed this, too. Usually in Maryland, close to Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

My in-laws have this (they live in Florida). It is for access to a gated community. I suspect here it may be the same or access to a security gate at a place of employment.

[Anonymous]

It may also be a QR code that links to a company website for marketing/advertising purposes.

[Anonymous]

I recently picked up a rental from Enterprise that had a barcode on the back passenger side window.

[Anonymous]

It's a rental car. When you pick it up or drop it off, they scan that to know which car it is.

[Anonymous]

I have one on the back window but that is my company barcode. We are located in busy place and they don't want outsiders to park on the company premises. So they barcode all the employee cars.

[Anonymous]

Most rental cars have them these days.

[Anonymous]

We have one that works for that toll bridge in Nothern MD..can't recall the name. You get off 95 and take a paralel road for one exit. Instead of $5 each time it is $5 for the year..might have gone up now though.

[Anonymous]

I tried to scan one ofn the bar codes with "red laser" on my Iphone and it wouldn't work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have one that works for that toll bridge in Nothern MD..can't recall the name. You get off 95 and take a paralel road for one exit. Instead of $5 each time it is $5 for the year..might have gone up now though.

do they still do that on the bridges across the susquehanna? They had them YEARS ago when my parents used to live up that way, but I thought they'd done away with those tags more than a decade ago.

I had one on my car window, but that was in the 1990s.

[Anonymous]

People who frequently traveled through INS checkpoints along I-5 & I-15 in CA used to have them as a way to bypass the wait, but this was late 90s. Around here, I suspect rental cars.

[Anonymous]

Its for a gate, either in a gated community, parking garage/lot, etc. It could be residential or employment related.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most rental cars have them these days.

Yes, since the rental car lots typically have gates to get in/out.

[Anonymous]

Yes they still have the stickers for the bridge in Nothern MD..reduced toll if you don't mind going a bit out of your way and do it mulitple times a year,