KeithChesterfield
Free Member
I decided to get an ATMB Toll tag for this year's trip into France.
The tags were on offer earlier this year at €3.60 for each month, or part month, they were used and no other payments for any other part of the year.
We went on the 3rd of July and came back on the 31st so the tag was only being used during one month.
No more searching for the purse or wallet, card or cash, no more winding the passenger window down to let the rain or the wind in, no pulling the wing mirror back to avoid banging it on the booth approach, no more taking off the passenger seatbelt and the driver having to stop within a passenger's arm reach of the machine, no more leaning out of the window and retrieving the card and putting the receipt in a 'safe' place, no more fastening the seatbelt, winding the window up and then down again to push out the wing mirror the passenger had forgotten to do, no more waiting in the 'wrong' queue for minutes at a time as someone at the front of the queue struggled to pay - and everything would be tickety boo.
And it was absolutely perfect at each and every toll booth – straight up to the barrier, a 'beep' sound from the tag, the barrier rises and off we go leaving all those who'd just sailed passed us minutes before waiting to get through the booths.
Oh, yes, the rollicking?
SWMBO said on the second day of the holiday, with that look and tone of voice many of you may be familiar with your own better halves -
“Why didn't you get one of these tags years ago?”
You can't bl**dy win, can you?
Here's the video - for best quality picture click on the 'cog' at bottom right of video and select 720pHD -
The tags were on offer earlier this year at €3.60 for each month, or part month, they were used and no other payments for any other part of the year.
We went on the 3rd of July and came back on the 31st so the tag was only being used during one month.
No more searching for the purse or wallet, card or cash, no more winding the passenger window down to let the rain or the wind in, no pulling the wing mirror back to avoid banging it on the booth approach, no more taking off the passenger seatbelt and the driver having to stop within a passenger's arm reach of the machine, no more leaning out of the window and retrieving the card and putting the receipt in a 'safe' place, no more fastening the seatbelt, winding the window up and then down again to push out the wing mirror the passenger had forgotten to do, no more waiting in the 'wrong' queue for minutes at a time as someone at the front of the queue struggled to pay - and everything would be tickety boo.
And it was absolutely perfect at each and every toll booth – straight up to the barrier, a 'beep' sound from the tag, the barrier rises and off we go leaving all those who'd just sailed passed us minutes before waiting to get through the booths.
Oh, yes, the rollicking?
SWMBO said on the second day of the holiday, with that look and tone of voice many of you may be familiar with your own better halves -
“Why didn't you get one of these tags years ago?”
You can't bl**dy win, can you?
Here's the video - for best quality picture click on the 'cog' at bottom right of video and select 720pHD -