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Hi

The tolls are for trailer or caravan, regardless of size, unfortunately.

The most I had to pay between Calais and Quimper was 10E 50

But that was after about 120 miles of gloriously quiet and smooth roads with excellent facilities en-route

Car and Caravan is charged as group 2 tolls. Not sure about trailers depends whether its done by height or number of axles. This might provide the answer http://www.autoroutes.fr/en/homepage.html

David

Thanks David. According to their vehicle classification, a trailer/boat trailer is classed as a group 1, whereas a caravan/motorhome is, as you rightly state, a group 2. I probably need to budget for group 2 level tolls, but hope that we get through on a level 1. It appears to go on height. Under 2 metres, which we are, is level 1.

(Our car is an MPV, we went through the M6 toll a few months ago and the woman on the toll booth obviously didn't see the trailer behind us and only charged us for the car. ;-) )

Our Ford Galaxy with a bike rack taking it to about 2.2 m high and also towing a Conway tailer tent is within the group 1 category. Consequently, we have only been charged at this group 1 rate in France.

However, on the M6 they will (usually) charge you extra for the trailer.

We used our Zafira (and roofbox) this year to tow our Folding Camper.

We were charged as class one at every French Motorway toll.  The only exception was the 'Pont Du Normandie' where we were charged as car and caravan both ways.

The M6 toll road charge is the same for car and caravan as car and small trailer.  You have to pay the same.

Steve

Quote: Originally posted by stevie9398 on 07/9/2008

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We used our Zafira (and roofbox) this year to tow our Folding Camper.

We were charged as class one at every French Motorway toll.  The only exception was the 'Pont Du Normandie' where we were charged as car and caravan both ways.

The M6 toll road charge is the same for car and caravan as car and small trailer.  You have to pay the same.

Steve

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http://www.mappy.co.uk/direct/mappy/accueil?country=GBR

I used this site for our last trip ti France. All the toll charges were pretty accurate.

From Angers to Rouen it was €40.60.  This year we spend over €250 on tolls alone so if we do France next year we will reroute to avoid the expensive stretches!

Just come back from Montpellier area. I have a Mercedes estate with roofbox 3 windsurf boards, conway Trailer Tent with 3 bikes on - height 2.3m. The automatic tolls picked us up as group 2, however, go to a manned toll booth and you will be charged as Group 1

Tolls were: Montpellier to Lyons €23, Lyons to Reims €35, Reims to Calais €14. I think on the way down we paid one Group 2 toll from Calais to Reims so it was a little more