Glen Ellyn Company Lands on Illinois Tollway's 'Super Scofflaw ' List of Shame

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s an Illinois Tollway Super Scofflaw (allegedly)!

After filing it’s 400th lawsuit since it started taking chronic toll violators to the courts two years ago, the Illinois Tollway published its third quarter 2014 list of alleged super scofflaws in the Chicago region.

The Illinois Tollway filed a record 47 lawsuits in circuit court on Oct. 23 seeking administrative judgements of $207,000 against the region’s biggest toll deadbeats. The agency’s executive director Kristi Lafleur described the action as a last resort.

“This is the last step we take when we have exhausted all other options for collecting these unpaid tolls that are needed to maintain and safely operate our roadways,” Lafleur said in a news advisory. “The overwhelming majority of our customers pay their tolls on time, so this step is simply a matter of ensuring that everybody who uses the tollway pays their fair share.”

The lawsuits only target commercial companies, not individual drivers. Since the tollway began suing commercial customers in 2012, about $716,000 has been collected from chronic offenders.

According to the agency, toll violators who owe back tolls or fines received at least five notices and four phone calls offering them multiple opportunities to enter into a settlement agreement or set up a payment plan to settle their debt.

The entire process takes nine months to two years or more from the time a violator receives a first violation notice to when the tollway files a judgement in court seeking payment.

The Illinois Tollway has outed 284 companies that owe $1,000 or more in unpaid tolls on its “Super Scofflaw” list posted on the agency’s website. totaling $8,995,391.54.

Topping the list is MMM Trans, of Wheeling, which owes $890,748.90 in unpaid tolls and fines, the tollway claims.

A total 28 DuPage County companies made the list. Multistone Countertops of Bartlett led the DuPage County pack in the #23 spot owing $67,085.95.

Avanti Enterprises Inc. in Glen Ellyn landed in the #85 spot owing $21,134.45 in unpaid tolls or fines, the tollway claims.

See who else in DuPage County landed on the list of shame:

#23 Multistone Countertops LLC (Bartlett) $67,085.95

#34 Luxury & Exoctics Transport Inc. (Westmont) $50,608.05

#36 Bulldog Earth Movers (Bloomingdale) $48,771.95

#45 Beach Tan LLC (Aurora) $40,583.60

#47 Ogden Lincoln Mercury of North Aurora (Westmont) $37,931.80

#49 Brandmax Motor Corp (Burr Ridge) $37,227.90

#52 TMC Lines Inc (Bensenville) $33,445.00

#54 Pulli Trucking Inc. (Lombard) $31,945.60

#69 Eagle Express 1 Company (Darien) $27,043.40

#70 Workman Land Survey (Downers Grove) $26,699.20

#75 The Standard Companies (Naperville) $23,920.95

#81 ABD Tank Pump (Elmhurst) $22,133.40

#82 Alpha Omega Logistics (Addison) $21,597.75

#85 Avanti Enterprises Inc. (Glen Ellyn) $21,134.45

#86 Acey’s Towing Roadside (Sugar Grove) $20,077.00

#89 Laury Transportation LLC (Naperville) $19,858.45

#117 JD Express Corp. (Woodridge) $12,302.00

#120 Midnight Services (Addison) $10,941.50

#124 T Cat Enterprise Inc. (Bartlett) $10,294.00

#133 Midwest Industries Inc./Ameri Clean (Naperville) $9,290.6

#189 Impulse Limousine Service Inc. (Hinsdale) $5,094.80

#191 Hopkins Distributing Inc. (Darien) $5,034.20

#194 Team Logic (Naperville) $4,902.00

#198 Sanders Enterprises (Elmhurst) $4,722.70

#205 The Mobile Mechanic (Westmont) $4,322.80

#216 Dolphin Laundry Services (Hinsdale) $3,644.05

#247 D III Corp (Bloomingdale) $2,413.85

#273 Vintage Restoration (Naperville) $1,488.90

See the Illinois Tollway’s complete “Super Scofflaw” list here.

The Illinois Tollway says violators should contact the phone number listed on their collection agency notices for more information about how to resolve their debt. To learn more about the collections process for violators who don’t pay their violation notices on time, visit the tollway’s violators timeline.