Anyone fancy a moan about the Dartford crossing?

Woke up this morning to a £35 penalty for forgetting to pay the toll charge.

I swear they make it as easy as possible to forget…

I almost preferred when you had to toss coins into a hopper…

End whinging.

    • ChuckEffingNorris@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Cameras photograph your number plate and start the clock. You have 24 hours to pay online or on app for the crossing.

      You can create an account that auto tops up from your bank and auto charges.

      Also, fuck Gordon Brown for selling the fucking bridge it should be free now. We have paid for it.

      • karlthemailman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Got it, that sounds pretty convenient though maybe 24 hours is a bit tight. Do you have to create an account per toll or does one account cover a whole region?

        • breweryEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You don’t have to make an account to pay this one but you can do to setup autopay: https://www.gov.uk/pay-dartford-crossing-charge.

          We don’t have many tolls at all in the UK. For motorways there’s this one and the M6 toll (more of an alternative route which can be avoided easily) which has toll booths (automated machines on exit). Others are usually bridges or tunnels and one account is unlikely to cover many but you’re unlikely to cross more than one toll regularly. https://www.gov.uk/uk-toll-roads

          The new slightly similar annoyance is airports. They used to be free for drop off but now charge around £6, and you have to go online and pay within 24 hours similar to this one. They offer free parking at long stay to tick a box but you have to get the bus to the terminal and they make it as inconvenient as possible so is not used much. Absolute rip off merchants and only helps the non-UK based private owners make money…