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Just had a trip to Kent from North Wales via the M6 Toll.  Disgusted to have to pay £8 each way for a SWB Ford Transit Devon Discovery! It all works on the height of the vehicle at the front axle i.e. if the vehicle is over 1.3m high and 2 axles a SWB van designated as Class 4 will pay the same as a full length coach and £1 less than a car and caravan which would be Class 3. No wonder it's almost deserted - anyone else have the same problem or have I been ripped off again?

John (Angry of Llandudno)

Sorry, I don't agree. If I was heading that way I would always use in preference to the M6, so much less hassle and stress.

David

Quote: Originally posted by johnjayeff on 18/7/2007

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No wonder it's almost deserted - anyone else have the same problem or have I been ripped off again?

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Hi,

I live near it, and won't use it on principle. It's overpriced, the surrounding roads are much improved and a lot quieter now.

I have noticed all the signs have been changed, all routes now take you down the toll road if you don't know the area, whereas before the M6 or M42 was the normal route (and still is). Local runs have been re-signed to use the toll road, and if you make a mistake, you're on the toll road by accident.

I reguarly use the M1/M6/M42, and the gantry signs always advise of heavy traffic on the M6, and advise using the toll road. I still use the M6, and oddly, it's usually clear, so I stopped believing these messages a long time ago.

Lorries don't use it much, as it is dear, there are a few more on there now though, a couple of years ago there were next to none.

Mike

Many Thanks for all your thoughts and opinions. I might try the M6 next time but it's only very occasionally we have to go that way.  Too much to see and do in North Wales!

John

We paid £8 a couple of weeks ago but it was a Friday and we were heading for London so just paid up with a smile and didnt worry on this occasion.

I got stung for £7 at 11:30pm  last night.   I made that BIG MISTAKE and THOUGHT I had changed lanes from the M42 on the left, over to the M6 on the right.  WRONG WRONG WRONG.  It was the M6 (toll).   Okj it WAS my fault, it was late, it was raining and I was tired having driven up from the Dover ferry.

What really annoys me is that the layout of this TOLL ROAD has be deliberately designed to dupe people into paying the toll.  The M6 Toll should have exited the main M6 carriageway via slip roads on the left and the way it is.

Forgot to mention,  anyone travelling south from the northwest of England along the M6  during peak periods and wanting to avoid Wolverhampton / Birmingaham or the M6 toll.  Try coming off at Stoke J15 the A500 then follow the A50 across to country to pickup the M1.