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thefatcontroller, The ones on the right are for trucks (as i recall) and have no height limit. The left hand ones have the dangly plastic chains, the Steel Barrier MUST be well over 2m but at 2.2 I would take the first one VERY slowly 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ooh I wouldn't risk it thefatcontroller, queue up with the normal people 
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thefatcontroller, yes, I do find it very hard to resist the temptation to drop below 50 on the approach. 
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
Surely it must make a difference which credit card you use re cost. Which one do you use? Nationwide is the only one I know of that doesn't charge every time you use it for Euro purchases. Is this right because if so I shall apply for one. Have got their Flexaccount already. |
I don't know of any credit card which does charge a "transaction fee" on purchases - but almost all do on "cash advances". Tolls shold count as purchases, so it is just the exchange rate which matters.
Nationwide do have a good rate (and I always use my NW debit card for cash), but I haven't noticed much difference between my NW card and my Abbey credit card when making purchases.
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| Axsman wrote: |
| Have been through all Telepeage between Calais and the alps with Grand Voyager and fitted top box. Plastic chains just touched the box, but no trouble at all. Must have been over 2m as the car alone is 1.85. was nervous going through the first one, but after that - |
I keep looking at the Credit Card lanes and thinking we'd get through - again just chains dangling - as we are in Sharan with roofbox. Mind you, in mid-Jan there is rarely any queues to speak of!
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thefatcontroller, on my slow dialup I can't look at those links, but "parrainage" is usually one of those "introduce a friend" sort of offers, I think. Do you have any? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, Ah well, no friends, (well 2 dogs at my feet at the moment who pretend to be my friends so long as I take them for a walk now) so thats one for the delete file 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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thefatcontroller, No it doesn't they are a dreadful invention and should not be used at all especially during school holiday periods in France. After all the credit card lanes are quicker and there are lots more credit card lanes than telepeage ones.
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Boredsurfing, Axsman, There is one on the way back up near Reims that has no dangly bits and did look dangerously close to 2m  . Mrsfatcontroller hadn't noticed and was driving. I did wince as we went under it.
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Poster: A snowHead
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thefatcontroller, Bet you couldn't help ducking your head as well! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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BMF_Skier, of course he is, we want to keep those telepeage lanes nice and empty......
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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well they weren't empty tonight, on the way down the A40 from Chamonix towards Geneva there were big queues, at all the lanes, including the telepeage lanes. I was going the other way so I had no problem. I did think, though, that this is something which ski weekenders need to think about. Getting back to Geneva airport on a Sunday night after lift-closing time is likely to be a slow journey. And it's just a very low-season weekend.
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BMF_Skier,
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BernardC,
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.... all ... "Happy Telepeage Electronic Device Owners" ... do remember to check the units' batteries for constant life ...
They are supposed to last a long time, 2-3 years, depending on use I suppose, but they do run out .....
.... It would be very if it didn't bleep at the barrier ....
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It's getting to the stage where I am beginning to wonder about the battery power on my unit. Does anyone know if it's possible to open the unit and change the batteries myself without wrecking it, or is there a way to test them before experiencing the embarrassment of having to reverse out of the lane when the barrier refuses to budge!
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good question Tatty, I'll be interested in the answer. Maybe there's some way of having them tested at one of the "aires" that has a telepeage office thing. I might ask, next time I'm passing through (though come to think of it, that'll be this Sunday, and I doubt if they'll be open)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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pam w, did you manage to ask at one of the stations!?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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More to the point have the fixed the detector on the Calais homeward bound side, in August it was out of line and we had to wave the box out of the window for it to register, the rest in France were all fine, just that one playing up. Or is it meant to be like that to give le Flics time to pull you over for your speeding fine?
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Also remember that when your credit card expires so does the Telepeage tag as happened to me earlier this year.
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You know it makes sense.
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Fogliettaz, SANEF usually send you a form in the post to fill in your new card details before this happens.
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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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If they did I must have overlooked it, signed up to 2011.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| Fogliettaz, SANEF usually send you a form in the post to fill in your new card details before this happens. |
Got one 2 months ago, filled in and sent back. Very impressed 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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did you manage to ask at one of the stations
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no, sorry - I drove it in one hit and was not for wasting time - and I thought they'd be shut. But I'll try on the way back, or when I go into Geneva on Weds.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Has anyone had to exchange their unit yet due to dead batteries. We'll be travelling this Friday night and this'll be the fourth season I've had my tele' and not sure how long the batteries will last. Shouldn't be to busy, so reversing out of the tp lane with french drivers shouting abuse at the 'stupid foreign' driver shouldn't be to embarrassing, but still like to know how others have got on?
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mac, I have had my box way longer than that and the batteries are still going strong and we use it 7/8 trips a year.
There is anecdotal evidence that it bleeps slowly as it dies to allow you time to find a sales office and get it changed. until you find one simply hand the box to a cashier and they scan the barcode on it and off you go.
There are so many Brits with TP's now there were q's in the TP lanes coming back at New Year so if you have to hand it in the time will be the same 
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Tatty,
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I think that we need to stop discussing this now or it may become quicker to use the cash lanes!
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At some places it was quicker (and cheaper) to use the credit card lanes.
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Boredsurfing, no queues when we came back, you should avoid the Tarentaise
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Boredsurfing, fortunately, I no longer need to travel at half-term.
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| and cheaper to use the credit card lanes. |
How so?
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