Italian Rome Traffic Tickets

Were there no payment instructions with the ticket?

No, the website said I had to have a specific number to login to their system

I sounds as if perhaps you don't yet have the ticket, but are reacting to having received an administrative charge from the car-rental agency. Is that correct?

I saw the charge, called AutoEurope and AutoEurope sent me the information that was given to Hertz in Rome. Not sure if it’s the ticket, but there’s a money amount listed..

How much is the amount?

You should be charged a fee by the rental agency (for them providing your contact info to the police), and then you should receive something from the police (typically a much larger fine than the small "fee" the agency charges you). Sounds like maybe you just have the first part...

I believe it’s about 72 euros... 58 plus 3 for an admin fee and then 11 for a notification fee....

Until you actually receive the infraction from the municipality, just sit back and wait. If and when it arrives it will have instructions for paying. The notification from the rental car company should be the administrative charge only, that you have to pay to the rental car company. It is separate from the actual violation. I’ve never heard of the infraction amount being collected by the rental car company.

That makes sense. I was told by AutoEurope that I could pay the original amount and they would accept it....

I was told by AutoEurope that I could pay the original amount and they would accept it....

Were you told so by Hertz, the Italian company that charged your credit card? Or by AutoEurope, an US consolidator? Because it's possible in theory, but this is the first time I hear about a rental company using such common sense.

I'll try to explain why you must 101% sure before trusting them. As owners of a car registered in Italy, the Italian branch of Hertz received a fine from Rome's Police saying (in Italian): "Pay 72 € within 60 days or tell us who hired that car on that day". That's the stuff AutoEurope forwarded to you: not to make you pay 72 €, but to prove that the charge made by Hertz on your credit card is legitimate.

So, If you gave Hertz 72 € within the above mentioned 60 days and they paid the fine within the same 60 days... that would be great, this way you would save all the costs involved in mailing a registered letter to US. Great but no rental company has ever done it before, they just charge customers around 45 € and tell cops who the real offender is.

More, if Hertz has already given your name and address to the cops, "their" fine has already been cancelled, while "your" fine is already on its way.

if Hertz has already given your name and address to the cops, "their" fine has already been cancelled, while "your" fine is already on its way.

This sounds like it's exactly what is going on.

Until you actually receive the tickets from Rome, there is nothing you can do. They will be reaching out to you, not the other way around.