*WARNING* Do NOT use NI bank cards on tolls in Republic!

lazer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

I've got a friend who's heard a banshee.

Do you want me to get his letter chasing payment and scan it for you.

I have seen the letter, they can and do chase NI registered vehicles for non payment.

They may or may not be legally enforcable cross border, I simply don't know.

However since I drive cross border regularly I pay the tolls, as do most regular users I know.

Edit - there are previous about debts being chased for UK registered vehicles
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3829621

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

Do you want me to get his letter chasing payment and scan it for you.

Yes

However since I drive cross border regularly I pay the tolls, as do most regular users I know

I know no one who does. I'm through it every week

lazer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

lazer wrote: »

Do you want me to get his letter chasing payment and scan it for you.

Yes

However since I drive cross border regularly I pay the tolls, as do most regular users I know

I know no one who does. I'm through it every week

Then you should pay for it, register for the toll and stop trying to get something for free which isn't free.

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Then you should pay for it, register for the toll and stop trying to get something for free which isn't free.

Sure won't I be paying for it when I get my bill through the post? Well, no.

It's a form of compensation for all those southern reg cars clogging the streets of newry by parking on double yellow lines, without fear of charges and fines. Swings, roundabouts?
And for refusing to extradite the man who killed my cousin. I feel it's owed to me.

lazer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

lazer wrote: »

Sure won't I be paying for it when I get my bill through the post? Well, no.

It's a form of compensation for all those southern reg cars clogging the streets of newry by parking on double yellow lines, without fear of charges and fines. Swings, roundabouts?
And for refusing to extradite the man who killed my cousin. I feel it's owed to me.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You do realise they can sieze your car for unpaid tolls - and since you are using it weekly, your unpaid tolls must be significant, and you are in the south quite regularly so there is a slim chance they could actually get you,

You are benefitting from the cheaper fuel duties in the South, as i'm sue you fill your car up before crossing the border.

I don't notice many southern regs parked illegally in Newry, although i no notice a lot of northern reg cars parked illegally along the back of the quays regularly.

I am sorry your cousin was killed - but what exactly does that have to do with road tolls?

qwert_yuiop

lazer wrote: »

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You do realise they can sieze your car for unpaid tolls - and since you are using it weekly, your unpaid tolls must be significant, and you are in the south quite regularly so there is a slim chance they could actually get you,

You are benefitting from the cheaper fuel duties in the South, as i'm sue you fill your car up before crossing the border.

I don't notice many southern regs parked illegally in Newry, although i no notice a lot of northern reg cars parked illegally along the back of the quays regularly.

I am sorry your cousin was killed - but what exactly does that have to do with road tolls?

Nothing really. Just a stance which I'm sure you recognise.

Having worked down there a lot for quite some time, the general attitude is avoid paying where possible - it'll only appear in a td's pocket at the end of it. Sad really, but going on past form - Charles haughey.

The latest proposal is to put in several toll gates along the m50, as well as gates at Carlow and Kilkenny, as it's possible to drive from the Liffey bridge to Waterford without paying a toll. And we can't have that.

They don't seize the cars of southerners who fail to pay. They're not going to start with us.

RikM

lazer wrote: »

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

You are benefitting from the cheaper fuel duties in the South, as i'm sue you fill your car up before crossing the border.

Lol. If you're looking at normal High Street/bank fx rates, you won't see a lot of difference. Couple of pence per litre, if you're lucky.

lazer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

They don't seize the cars of southerners who fail to pay. They're not going to start with us.

They have seized cars - not many but it has happenened
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25191439

RikM wrote: »

Lol. If you're looking at normal High Street/bank fx rates, you won't see a lot of difference. Couple of pence per litre, if you're lucky.

Depends - if your car is Diesel you save substantially. Around £1.37 - £1.40 a litre in Newry, whereas on the M1 service stations it's around €1.45 - €1.47, which is £1.20ish - so near 20p a litre saving

RikM

lazer wrote: »

Depends - if your car is Diesel you save substantially. Around £1.37 - £1.40 a litre in Newry, whereas on the M1 service stations it's around €1.45 - €1.47, which is £1.20ish - so near 20p a litre saving

Ah. Diesel. I don't touch the stuff.