Tolls Mainland Europe

Is it just me or things getting harder to travel within Europe. Motorway tolls and Green Zones are making it harder. I avoided tolls through France, paying only €30 odd for one section as Class4. In Switzerland I paid €40 for the Motorhome and the same for our 125cc scooter. In Germany no tolls but has to avoid the Umweld areas. I thought I would nip into Belgium but they are looking me to buy/rent a satellite box that I then have to preload with credit. I looked into that but it's a 16 point application just to get the box, then God knows about preloading it. Last time in Portugal I got a fine after registering the van on the motorway system but passed through a bit of motorway that it didn't work on. It's either get my head around it or get a van under 3.5 ton and up the years

OK rant over just going to open a bottle of cheap wine I bought in France when I got off the boat

I've worked it out, false numberplates

Or you could be like me and refit the French plates. And travel in cognitio 🥸

In Austria we felt as though we were being stalked, by the asfinag, if you bleep 3 times and aren’t sure were the next point of sale is your starting to look at every hole in the hedge for the go box sign then the app tells you it’s 50 miles away,by that stage you’re through maybe another tunnel or 2, so your in the red, then having to back pay to get back up to zero euro , then try to work out how much you’re guna need for the rest of the trip , Slovenia not much better, if you drop below 25 euros you must top up, suppose the plus side is it’s all mileage based so if you can keep of the toll roads as much when you’re in your can stay much longer

I agree with Jason that tolls are a pain. I totally avoided Austria last year to negate the need for a go box, instead using Switzerland to get to Italy. Switzerland had an app for tolls, you pay for a set number of days so mileage didn’t matter.

In Italy most of the tolls were booth pay and they do have a few like the M50.

Greece was booth pay.

Spain have got rid of quite a few of theirs but from Bilbao to Zaragoza it’ll cost me around €40.

If changing mh or the doctor didn't want to certify me for a C1 licence I would definitely go for 3.5t plus a 750kg version of one of these
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