2 years ago we subscribed to a French service which comes from their equivilent of our Highways Agency. The service is from www.sanef.com and it is called Liber-T (Liberty!!!)
Basically it is a small passive electonic device that mounts on your windscreen and allows to bypass all of those long, infernal queues at the motorwway toll gates (Peage).
You can apply for one from the UK, there is a very small monthly hire charge for the unit and each toll gate fee amount gets automatically deducted from your nominated charge card/debit card account. You also get an itemised bill for each outbound or inbound journey.
We reckon we save between 1-2 hrs each time we do our twice yearly Calais-Grenoble-Calais ski run.
The best bit though, is watching the expression on all of the faces in other GB cars as they patiently queue and we zip past in the Peage Liber-t priority lane.That alone is worth the small monthly hire charge.
johna wrote: and allows to bypass all of those long, infernal queues at the motorwway toll gates (Peage). We reckon we save between 1-2 hrs each time we do our twice yearly Calais-Grenoble-Calais ski run. The best bit though, is watching the expression on all of the faces in other GB cars as they patiently queue and we zip past in the Peage Liber-t priority lane.That alone is worth the small monthly hire charge.
and allows to bypass all of those long, infernal queues at the motorwway toll gates (Peage).
It must be very inconvenient for you...................having to share the roads with all those annoying drivers.
You saved 1-2 hours wow,.............................all that extra time to spend on the apres-ski.
Bugbear wrote: johna wrote: and allows to bypass all of those long, infernal queues at the motorwway toll gates (Peage). We reckon we save between 1-2 hrs each time we do our twice yearly Calais-Grenoble-Calais ski run. The best bit though, is watching the expression on all of the faces in other GB cars as they patiently queue and we zip past in the Peage Liber-t priority lane.That alone is worth the small monthly hire charge. It must be very inconvenient for you...................having to share the roads with all those annoying drivers. You saved 1-2 hours wow,.............................all that extra time to spend on the apres-ski.
Admittedly the autoroutes I use may be quieter than some others but I seem to get through the peages almost as quickly (as the doofer-users) with my French carte bancaire. And I receive a small credit against my bank charges each time I use the card. Frankly, I already begrudge paying so much in fuel and toll charges, without giving the highway agency extra for a device that might save a few seconds per trip.
Now if they gave a toll discount for doofer-users....
cassis wrote:If we use it twice a month and pay by direct debit our doofer is effectively free.
There is an upfront charge though, if I remember correctly, which they call a deposit but which you are not going to see again.
Interesting about free annual charge for twice-monthly usage. Is that twice in each month of the year, or a minimum of 24 times spread over a year? In other words, do you have to pay for the year if just one particular month was missed, even though an average of twice per month has been achieved?
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