Fireflies
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So, after paying €12.00 ish last year at the toll booth for this bridge crossing in our 4.25t Autotrail motorhome, today we had the real shock of having to pay €34.80!
Last time I’m sure we went through the automated toll booth like today (with 4m box trailer) and we were electronically recognised as Classe 2 and charged the €12.00
This time it stated Classe 4 and were charged the HGV tariff.
TBH my reg doc states ‘Private HGV’ so really can’t complain but something’s changed over here with the database for sure.
I have to say that last year a toll booth attendant (somewhere in France or was it Italy?) stepped out the booth and wrote down our reg no. This is possibly because the system was down but have we now been reclassified as a HGV having previously been lucky to avoid the higher charges?
I wasn’t impressed with this route last year, albeit on a ‘free’ motorway as it’s far too much stress on the van constantly up and down the steep motorway inclines.
We also have a large photo collection of ‘that bridge’ so will give it a wide berth in future....
The Millau town route avoiding the toll states no vehicles above 3.5t I think and I’m led to believe it’s arduous and time consuming so thinking we’d be charged €12.00 that’s why we naively sailed up to the toll booths....
Last time I’m sure we went through the automated toll booth like today (with 4m box trailer) and we were electronically recognised as Classe 2 and charged the €12.00
This time it stated Classe 4 and were charged the HGV tariff.
TBH my reg doc states ‘Private HGV’ so really can’t complain but something’s changed over here with the database for sure.
I have to say that last year a toll booth attendant (somewhere in France or was it Italy?) stepped out the booth and wrote down our reg no. This is possibly because the system was down but have we now been reclassified as a HGV having previously been lucky to avoid the higher charges?
I wasn’t impressed with this route last year, albeit on a ‘free’ motorway as it’s far too much stress on the van constantly up and down the steep motorway inclines.
We also have a large photo collection of ‘that bridge’ so will give it a wide berth in future....
The Millau town route avoiding the toll states no vehicles above 3.5t I think and I’m led to believe it’s arduous and time consuming so thinking we’d be charged €12.00 that’s why we naively sailed up to the toll booths....