I Might Use A Bit Of A Toll Road Now... (1 Viewer)

[JJ]

Ever since the introduction of the electronic toll roads here in Portugal I have avoided them completely (except once by mistake).

This is 90% on principle and 10% because I didn't know an easy way to pay the charges.

One short piece of road, avoiding Tomar, on my route south was converted into a toll section and since then, I have stubbornly diverted through Tomar on each trip despite the extra time and cost in diesel this must cause.

Yesterday I put an app on my phone and now I can pay any of these bloody criminal electronic toll charges by pressing a few buttons.

Shortly I will travel south for the festive season. I will test my new system then.

I love technology.

(Only works for Portuguese registered vehicles.)

JJ

 

[Snowbird]

Thats the problem with having a Portuguese registered vehicle. They cant find the rest of us .

 

[JJ]

Thats the problem with having a Portuguese registered vehicle. They cant find the rest of us .

Oh yes they can Sir... and do!

JJ

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[Emmit]

If it's so damn clever, why is it only for Portuguese vehicles.
What difference does that make if you get the App.?

 

[chaser]

My mate lives in estoi and doesn't go on motorway if he can help it but if he does he just has a fine through the post, and pays it at the post office just the same price as paying any other way,( he says)

 

[Snowbird]

Oh yes they can Sir... and do!

JJ

Well they didnt charge me in April. Maybe there sophisticated number plate recognition only recognises Portuguese plates .

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[Bailey58]

With those reasons for avoiding the tolls couldn't you opt to pay just 10%?

 

[jongood]

They didnt find us or our travelling companions.

Lovely country - stupid toll systems - EU led I believe...

 

[hilldweller]

Yesterday I put an app on my phone and now I can pay any of these bloody criminal electronic toll charges by pressing a few buttons.

Shortly I will travel south for the festive season. I will test my new system then.

So distressing, the all time great cheapskate considering paying. What next campsites ?

I think you need you memorise the Portuguese for "Can you direct me to the poorhouse".

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[2657]

They didnt find us or our travelling companions.

Lovely country - stupid toll systems - EU led I believe...

What makes you think that, believe it or not the EU is not to blame for all the ills of the world

 

[hilldweller]

Well they didnt charge me in April. Maybe there sophisticated number plate recognition only recognises Portuguese plates .

Same here, though March. Did the right thing, logged a CC with their machine then drove on. Not a penny charged. Mind you we did not use much mway.

 

[JJ]

They didnt find us or our travelling companions.

Lovely country - stupid toll systems - EU led I believe...

Incorrect.

JJ

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[JJ]

If it's so damn clever, why is it only for Portuguese vehicles.
What difference does that make if you get the App.?

Oh dear...

Before I had the app, apparently I would have had to ring up somewhere, or go there, to see how much my recent tolls were, and then handing over the money.

This involved going to the place, getting a numbered ticket, waiting in line, etc etc etc.

It will make a huge, huge difference to me to have the app on the phone, see how much I owe, and pay it there and then by pressing a couple of buttons, without even getting out of my sun lounger.

With foreign reg vehicles, you do something different which I don't know much about. I believe it involves registering a credit card linked to your vehicle number plate. I suspect you do this when you enter the country. I am already here...

Okay?


JJ

 

[JJ]

Well they didnt charge me in April. Maybe their sophisticated number plate recognition only recognises Portuguese plates .

My people sorted it out for you...

JJ

 

[Emmit]

I understand that it only works for the people who have Portuguese plates but I have to ask, Why.
My credit card has been abused up and down the land (Portugal) for the past month, and, whilst here I've bought things from foreign countries that will be delivered to my home while I'm away.

It just doesn't make any sense. I register on line with the PT authorities and use the Motorways. Whether the vehicle is registered here or elsewhere, my card can be debited.
Portugal are losing out.

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[2657]

Oh dear...

Before I had the app, apparently I would have had to ring up somewhere, or go there, to see how much my recent tolls were, and then handing over the money.

This involved going to the place, getting a numbered ticket, waiting in line, etc etc etc.

It will make a huge, huge difference to me to have the app on the phone, see how much I owe, and pay it there and then by pressing a couple of buttons, without even getting out of my sun lounger.

With foreign reg vehicles, you do something different which I don't know much about. I believe it involves registering a credit card linked to your vehicle number plate. I suspect you do this when you enter the country. I am already here...

Okay?


JJ

Portuguese seem to love their ticket machines and queues.........they have a lot more patience than I

 

[JJ]

Mr Emmitdb...

Just link your credit card with your foreign number plate once when you enter.

Job done.

My vehicle is registered with the Portuguese equivalent of the DVLA, so I use the app.

Yours isn't so you do it differently.

How are they "losing out"?

JJ

 

[Snowbird]

Can only wealthy foreigners who own a credit card use these toll roads JJ. What about those of us with no credit rating, are we not welcome .

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[JJ]

Can only wealthy foreigners who own a credit card use these toll roads JJ. What about those of us with no credit rating, are we not welcome .

Use a debit one Mr S.

I don't have a credit card either... (well actually I do have a sort of one in Portugal.)

Wealthy folk with cedit cards?

Are there such people?

Surely they pay with gold sovereigns...

JJ

 

[jongood]

What makes you think that, believe it or not the EU is not to blame for all the ills of the world

Im under the impression that the EU compelled Portugal to setup a toll system to keep its bailout on track

https://www.ft.com/content/59949c24-0a3a-11e3-9cec-00144feabdc0

No I dont blame the EU for all the bad things, but I do wish it was more accountable and more sensible.

 

[Allanm]

Im under the impression that the EU compelled Portugal to setup a toll system to keep its bailout on track

https://www.ft.com/content/59949c24-0a3a-11e3-9cec-00144feabdc0

No I dont blame the EU for all the bad things, but I do wish it was more accountable and more sensible.

So that's a good thing then

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[JJ]

Portugal are not meant to charge folk to import vehicles from other EU countries (free movement of goods and services etc) but they do...

I can't believe the EU forced the Portuguese government into making the SCUT roads into tolls.

Anyhow, as posted at the start of the thread, just letting people know, there is a app (CTT) that allows any Funster with a Portuguese plated vehicle to pay for the electronically controlled motorways easily.

JJ

 

[2657]

Im under the impression that the EU compelled Portugal to setup a toll system to keep its bailout on track

https://www.ft.com/content/59949c24-0a3a-11e3-9cec-00144feabdc0

No I dont blame the EU for all the bad things, but I do wish it was more accountable and more sensible.

Can't open the link, need to be a subscriber, perhaps you could copy and paste the relevant section. Was the compulsion a general financial measure for Portugal to comply with EU financial rules perhaps?

As far as I can remember there were objections from Spain at the time of the introduction of the A22 tolls on the grounds that the EU subsidised the building of the road but I do not know if this ever got as far as an official complaint.

 

[Emmit]

I've been here over a month and I'm yet to meet two people in Portugal who give the same answer to the same question. ie how do I pay as I go to use Portuguese Toll Roads.
No two answers are the same (and, if I ask a third person, I get another answer)

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[gus-lopez]

Mr Emmitdb...

Just link your credit card with your foreign number plate once when you enter.

Job done.

My vehicle is registered with the Portuguese equivalent of the DVLA, so I use the app.

Yours isn't so you do it differently.

How are they "losing out"?

JJ

It appears that once the foreign card & number plate are linked ,no one is taking any money.

 

[2657]

I have lost track of the number of times that I have posted this link on the forum, it really is not difficult

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Click on the 'how to pay' tab, there are several ways to pay, easiest is to use the 'easy toll' facility at the border.

Or buy a tollcard before using the motorway, there are a few ways to do this, including online, it is all clearly explained in the link'

As Punch would say 'that's the way to do it'......the only way.

 

[2657]

It appears that once the foreign card & number plate are linked ,no one is taking any money.

They are doing now, mine was debited for the 2 journeys I made in November.

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