 Poster: A snowHead
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@LaForet, what's an £80k car got to do with it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @LaForet, what's an £80k car got to do with it? |
If there's a financial disadvantage in having a tag (though there seems to be some doubt about that) he's presumably saying that if you can afford the car, you can afford the tag.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| @LaForet, what's an £80k car got to do with it? |
The toll lanes that you drive straight through are on the LHS, the cars are ones that just drive in the left hand lane at more than the speed limit.
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The toll lanes that you drive straight through are on the LHS, the cars are ones that just drive in the left hand lane at more than the speed limit.
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Surely one's chauffer will know about this. TBH I have never seen this tailing someone into the telepage lane thing that is often mentioned here.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Don't think it is anything to do with avoiding the tolls, just oblivious to the fact that badges are needed for the outside lanes. 2€ per month and only if we use it , is the cost of the tag we have.
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The tag-only 30kph lanes normally mean no, or much less queuing at busier times. When we were transfer driving GVA to Chamonix that saved us lots of time on the busy days. Not on that stretch of autoroute, but on many others there are 30kph lanes for all vehicles on the right hand side, again at busy times they can be a surprising time saver, an equivalent length queue of 3 trucks moves through a lot faster than 10 cars, and of course can be used in a campervan, or with a roofbox. These factors, along with not needing to faff with cards at tollbooths make the two euros or so per month of use charge well worthwhile - if you even need to pay it, with our new Fulli account there are no charges at all in France for the first year.
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I never understand why someone with an £80+K car wouldn’t also have a tag as well, but there you are.
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Perhaps they don't find stopping and using a credit card is a huge problem? I suspect the reductions for frequent passages are only likely to be useful for French commuters, not British holiday makers.
Péage tags have become desirable "must haves" for British skiers, a bit like the latest skis and £600 jackets. The French seem to manage fine in an old Decathlon jacket with a pair of skis borrowed from an uncle or fished out from the back of a "cave" where they've not been serviced for 4 years.
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Fulli has been great, the initial test payment they triggered failed but after that plane sailing. Number plate scanning Dartford crossing style will be a good step forward on those peak times.
With the current tag there is always that moment when you dust it off for the first time in many months and pray for the reassuring beep at the first gate. I don't like the vagueness of when it will eventually run out. Let alone how I get a replacement. Some people have said just pop into the office to get a swap, but journey efficiency wise that goes against the main reason I signed up....
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Though I usually mange to pick up a ticket without actually stopping (my son has long arms  ) I have never managed to do the same paying. Am I the only one who plays this game?
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I don't like the vagueness of when it will eventually run out. Let alone how I get a replacement
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When we were with Emovis the website would tell you the status of your tag, and at the appropriate time they would send a replacement. Never an issue for me. ( I presume Fulli will give a similar service).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Origen wrote: |
| Péage tags have become desirable "must haves" for British skiers, a bit like the latest skis and £600 jackets. The French seem to manage fine in an old Decathlon jacket with a pair of skis borrowed from an uncle or fished out from the back of a "cave" where they've not been serviced for 4 years. |
How does a péage tag costing a few euros a year compare to a ski jacket costing £600? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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After hubby lost the ticket on the A6, whilst I don't think one is essential, it is definitely far more convenient. If you are a lone driver, then hopping out to do credit card payment is a real PITA, esp in busy traffic or bad weather. Why have the hassle when you can sort it for a few euros? Nothing to do with £600 ski jackets though.
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The only problem I've ever had with the tag, is that when things get congested and cars drive through the 30kph lanes too closely, the system revolts and switches to each car having to stop at the barrier. This leads to more congestion, cars even closer together, and the problem compounds.
The solution is to wait just before the entry zone for all the cars to clear, then drive through normally, and it resets back to allowing 30kph transits.
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You know it makes sense.
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How does a péage tag costing a few euros a year compare to a ski jacket costing £600? I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make.
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Probably not worth trying to explain, except to say it's not about money. Yes, you do have to be sensible with the tickets! My husband would have been perfectly capable of losing one, because not being satisfied with the obvious place I'd put it, down in front of you where you also have the credit card you're going to pay with, he'd have gone to elaborate lengths to find some sort of "safer place" to keep it. He once spent at least 20 miles, before one of the small péage gates on the motorway to Geneva, collecting lots of small euro coinage to chuck the right amount into the basket. When getting it all ready, as we approached, he dropped the whole lot on the floor.  He was very cross.
After that we organised a tag, but we were driving back and forth to the Alps four times a year and I did a lot of solo transfer driving in and out of Geneva, with two small tolls. But it's not a big deal one way or the other if you just do the long return drive once or twice a year.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Origen, gathering all the low value coins together to pay a low cost toll charge sounds a good idea to use all the “shrapnel “ we have accumulated over the years. No one accepts 5 cent coins any more. Well not 100 of them.
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Poster: A snowHead
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gathering all the low value coins together to pay a low cost toll charge sounds a good idea to use all the “shrapnel “ we have accumulated over the years.
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yes, that's what my husband thought - but we were picking up 10 cent pieces from under and around the seats for years...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't even know what 5c looks like. I decline 1c coins
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Fulli Tag arrived today, online account works fine, and a test 1 euro charge successfully applied, which will be credited against first bill (off to France in two weeks). All setup painlessly, with no deposit or admin fees at all.
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