I'm driving out to the Alpes this year but I'll be on my own, I can't remember if there is a facility at the tolls for a right hand drive car. I feel sure there must be a booth where you can do this but would just like to know, thanks.
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French tolls ?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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No there isn't, at least not when I did the drive which was 2008. It's a lot of in and out (not in a Clockwork Orange kind of way).
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the only place you can find one is right near Calais, beginning of the motorway from the North...then you are on your own! and it's a pain.
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There is on some, though they are mainly near the ports - offer a lift to someone, on here?
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Get one of those grabber things with a rubber coated pincer at one end and a squeezy handle at the other end to close the pincers. worked for me
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Fishing net on a stick for change.
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Just reverse into the toll bay. A couple of J-turns each side of the toll and you'll be reet.
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No, there are generally no right-hand-drive booths. However, at the manned booths, it's usually no bother to lean over (and the staff are usually helpful enough).
The automated ones might be a bit of a stretch.
Don't put a huge mound of junk in the passenger seat...
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Its just a matter of leaning over or finding a friend to come with you. When we went through France I don't remember any being suitable for right hand drive
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Robert Millar used to keep a set of bolt croppers in the boot of his car and used them to cut the padlock off the gate before the toll gate, to get past the toll without paying.
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TBH - I just pick a manned one & get out & walk round usually
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Nope strangely enough French tolls are design for french cars
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