Trucker: I always use GreedyPass

This trucker keeps a tight grip on his cash.

Rene Prieto was busted for blowing past a Staten Island bridge toll without paying over the weekend — even though he had $6,900 cash on him at the time, police sources said.

And then, when Prieto was arraigned in Criminal Court on Sunday, a judge set a low $500 bail — but the rogue trucker decided to stay locked up rather than part with the cash.

The 37-year-old Prieto was nabbed Saturday afternoon while heading across the Bayonne Bridge from New Jersey, sources said.

His Legal Aid lawyer refused to say why Prieto wouldn’t dip into his stash, either to pay the toll or to keep himself out of the slammer over the Fourth of July weekend.

He pleaded not guilty to petit larceny and having an illegal plastic cover on his truck’s license plate, and is due back in court on Staten Island Tuesday — to be screened for a program that helps nonviolent offenders who can’t afford to post bail.

Prieto’s arrest was part of a crackdown on scofflaws who last year evaded more than $900,000 in tolls on the Bayonne and Goethals bridges and the Outerbridge Crossing, sources said.

Scammers can easily beat the system because none of the toll lanes there is equipped with automatic barriers.

Prieto was pulled over because Port Authority cops recognized his truck as being owned by KTR Hauler Inc. of Union, NJ, which owes more than $114,000 in unpaid E-ZPass tolls and fines, sources said.

The company currently “does not have any operating authority and is not authorized to operate,” according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

A woman who answered a phone number associated with KTR said she had “no idea” why Prieto was carrying so much cash or why he opted against posting bail.

The woman, who gave her name only as Yesenia, also said, “Maybe my secretary didn’t pay the E-ZPass bill,” before abruptly hanging up.

Cash tolls on the bridges range from $15 for a fourwheeled vehicle to $126 for a tractor-trailer with six axles.