Should motorists be charged for using existing toll free roads?

[pdq1]

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Surely nobody would object to paying a toll on newly built roads but do you believe they should be levied on existing trunk roads which in the past have been toll free?

[TWR]

DO

[pdq1]

As a motorist of many miles I personally object to paying tolls. Only yesterday I thought why should I pay the £2 toll over the Dartford crossing and so used an alternative. The whole point about tolls is if people want to pay them its their choice but providing there is a decent alternative they can do as they please.

[Baldric]

Until they reduce the car-tax I pay proportionally to the amount of tolls I would pay then you're damn right I object.

[TWR]

Pdj, as said, I used to drive HGVs the company had at least 600 Units in their fleet, the drv tanks held approx 200 galls, that unit would use that on one trip & at times had to be topped up, the road tax for the unit was in excess of £3000(at that time) add that up on a daily basis to see what the cost comes to, oh & by the way, the units use to do about 7>>8 mpg. putting tolls on new road would put the country in one hell of a state, you think things are expensive now? every possible item you use / drink / eat / drive/ bog roll / wear / holidays / heat /sail / would go up in price, & you talk about,

Should motorists be charged for using existing toll free roads?

[TWR]

Derv Tanks

[Mick-Talbot]

Do you suffer with lexdysia TWR or do you need a trip to specsavers?

[craft1948]

So you drive on Eurprean roads free do you Mick..................do you smash through the toll barriers in France?

[cazzz1975]

The M6 toll is severely underused, this is because people refuse to pay the extortionate charges to drive on it.

No we shouldn't be charged for using toll free roads, its about time the government found someone else to pick on.

[baza]

craft, motorists are taxed on fuel, car tax, vat on repairs, the french on the other hand do not pay anywhere near as much, so toll roads are a viable option.
And as for the dartford crossing, well, lets not talk about that rip off.

[craft1948]

baza last time I was on a toll road in France it was nearly empty. I soon realised the only traffic using it was tourists and HGV's. All the locals were using the back roads.

[Mick-Talbot]

Your sat nav will tell you if there is a toll road ...then the choice is yours.

[Baldric]

My Satnav is set to avoid them.

[baza]

craft, sorry I misunderstood, so what we really ought to do is charge all the foreign lorries £100 when they get off the ferry, then we don't have to pay tolls to use our roads. That might level the playing field for our truckers.

[TWR]

Too quick with answers Mick, she has not come back has she.

[TWR]

Lorry Road User Charging Update - Transport - United Kingdomwww.mondaq.com/x/...rail.../Lorry+Road
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23 Oct 2012 – Click to ask the author from Bircham Dyson Bell LLP a question ... for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), intended to come into force by 2015. ... a road user charge would apply to both foreign and UK-registered HGVs but UK ... HGV operators would be able to pay daily, weekly, monthly or annual charges.
Foreign lorries to be charged £10-a-day to use British roads | Mail ...www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Foreign-lorries-ch
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24 Oct 2012 – 'HGVs registered abroad are likely to carry more weight on fewer axles than UK registered vehicles. ... applied to British hauliers as well as foreign HGVs to comply with EU rules. ... On the go: Jennifer Garner flew home and ferried Seraphina to karate class and was .... How many bikini shoots can she do!

The Governments are very quick , 2015,why the hell don't they do it now?

[EcclesCake]

Am I the only one wondering about the relevance of Jennifer Garner????

Your written posts are baffling at the best of times, TWR, your pasted ones are in a whole different dimension.... ;-)

[baza]

how many of our truckers will fold before we get to 2015 , make them pay NOW when those european lorries arrive stuff the EU rules.

[baza]

I read the post and pictured a bikini clad judo expert driving over the dartford bridge in an eight wheeler.

[TWR]

Opps.

[Mick-Talbot]

Too quick with answers Mick, she has not come back has she.


eh?