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m50 Toll and how to avoid payment!

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  • 03-02-2011 6:41pm
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    av8r10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    So i travel over the toll quite often and used to get letters and letters about payment! Quite sickening and annoying.

    So as i was driving one day i decided to tailgate a large lorry quite closely behind it (dangerous, i know) until i passed the cameras that take your regestration. I decided instead of paying i would wait to see if payment letter would come...it didnt, infact i havent had a letter in 2 months. And i travel over it quite a reasonable amount weekly.

    Let me know if anyone else has tried this.


    G


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    #2
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    fffffuuuuuuuuuuuu


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    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    av8r10 wrote: »
    So i travel over the toll quite often and used to get letters and letters about payment! Quite sickening and annoying.

    So as i was driving one day i decided to tailgate a large lorry quite closely behind it (dangerous, i know) until i passed the cameras that take your regestration. I decided instead of paying i would wait to see if payment letter would come...it didnt, infact i havent had a letter in 2 months. And i travel over it quite a reasonable amount weekly.

    Let me know if anyone else has tried this.


    G

    Yes I've heard of people doing this. Risking crashing in to a lorry is worth a couple of euro is it?!:rolleyes:


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    g5fd6ow0hseima
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I have driven through the m50 toll in my classic car about a dozen times and It hasnt picked it up once.
    too much class...


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    #5
    av8r10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭av8r10


    might be the registration plate or size, who knows??i just know i save myself nearly enough 4 a decent night out every2 weeks!


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    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    haha some1 tried to do this on my bro when he was driving. Just as he got to the cameras he put the foot down and left a nice big gap for the camera to get his reg :D


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    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    sure just take off the front numberplate, will stop you getting speeding fines also!!


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    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    av8r10 wrote: »
    So i travel over the toll quite often and used to get letters and letters about payment! Quite sickening and annoying.

    So as i was driving one day i decided to tailgate a large lorry quite closely behind it (dangerous, i know) until i passed the cameras that take your regestration. I decided instead of paying i would wait to see if payment letter would come...it didnt, infact i havent had a letter in 2 months. And i travel over it quite a reasonable amount weekly.

    Let me know if anyone else has tried this.


    G

    You should be banned for this nonsense. Firstly banned off the road because your obviously a menace, with no care to others, and secondly, banned from here for even admitting to doing such a stupid thing when driving.


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    voteforpedro
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭voteforpedro


    whats you're reg? just out of curiosity:)


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    av8r10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭av8r10


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    You should be banned for this nonsense. Firstly banned off the road because your obviously a menace, with no care to others, and secondly, banned from here for even admitting to doing such a stupid thing when driving.

    in this economic climate i'll do watever possible to save a few bob! a menace??no! im a pilot and regular trips to the airport costs dolla dolla billz yo!


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    CosmicJay
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭CosmicJay


    Just as I had regained faith in humanity.

    ''So as i was driving one day i decided to tailgate a large lorry quite closely behind it (dangerous, i know)''

    Oh dear its gone again. . .


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    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    av8r10 wrote: »
    in this economic climate i'll do watever possible to save a few bob! a menace??no! im a pilot and regular trips to the airport costs dolla dolla billz yo!

    A pilot!! Christ almighty. Ya'd think ya'd have more cop on. If you don't want to pay the toll, use an alternate route, or way of getting from a to b. Putting you, and others in danger for a couple of € is just scandalous.


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    si_guru
    Registered Users Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    av8r10 wrote: »
    in this economic climate i'll do watever possible to save a few bob! a menace??no! im a pilot and regular trips to the airport costs dolla dolla billz yo!

    Troll Airlines?


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    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 65,147 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    av8r10 wrote: »
    i decided to tailgate a large lorry quite closely behind it (dangerous, i know) until i passed the cameras

    It works great. I do it all the time. I never pay for my train tickets either, just climb out of the window and lay flat on the roof. If you're careful, you can hang under a LUAS too, but mind debris lying on the tracks!


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    #15
    av8r10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭av8r10


    listen wit half a bottle of bourbon in your system its hard to....

    JK

    but seriously i dont drive that close and never in the fast lane!


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    Preset No.3
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭Preset No.3


    av8r10 wrote: »
    in this economic climate i'll do watever possible to save a few bob! a menace??no! im a pilot and regular trips to the airport costs dolla dolla billz yo!


    A pilot you say?? Even if you are a junior FO working for the Ryans, you are still pulling in €5-6k a month!! Then you crib over €4 a day! Class A1 WXXKER!!!!


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    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    A pilot you say?? Even if you are a junior FO working for the Ryans, you are still pulling in €5-6k a month!! Then you crib over €4 a day! Class A1 WXXKER!!!!

    who are the ryans

    do you mean this people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_International_Airlines


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    #18
    av8r10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭av8r10


    wat country are you living in? €6 a day, i dont think my honda does 30 euros worth of damage to the road a week mate....and you obv know nothing of ryanair wages! a junior officer after line training earns around 25-30k depending on experience. Read before you write you twat!


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    Mr.David
    Registered Users Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    av8r10 wrote: »
    wat country are you living in? €6 a day, i dont think my honda does 30 euros worth of damage to the road a week mate....and you obv know nothing of ryanair wages! a junior officer after line training earns around 25-30k depending on experience. Read before you write you twat!

    The toll isnt there to cover 'damage'

    How much you earn is your problem - if you dont want to pay then dont use it!

    Oh, and easy on the personal abuse!:rolleyes:


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    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    To the OP - you sir are a spastick, yo.


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    #21
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Aye its a great way to avoid the toll

    Did you know if you put hair spray on your number plate the speed cameras can't take an image of them ;)

    Its another way to help you save money and time


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    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,317 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    A safer idea, albeit illegal to use for this purpose might be a retractable front number plate but tbh you should just pay the toll


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    si_guru
    Registered Users Posts: 2,347 ✭✭✭si_guru


    mickdw wrote: »
    A safer idea, albeit illegal to use for this purpose might be a retractable front number plate but tbh you should just pay the toll

    No your tlaking - when I win the lotto, I am getting "james bond" revolving number plates made for my car.. no am I!


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    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    In before he lock - how is this not closed down yet???
    av8r10 wrote: »
    in this economic climate i'll do watever possible to save a few bob! a menace??no! im a pilot and regular trips to the airport costs dolla dolla billz yo!
    Oh the poor impoverished pilots can't afford the tolls!!
    My heart bleeds.
    Really it does.


    If you are that hard up buddy sell your car and take the bus.
    Please.


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    #25
    rabbitinlights
    Registered Users Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭rabbitinlights


    I'm getting the ferry to the UK next time if this is the type of pilots employed....


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    #26
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Funnily after being in the news a few months back this is still going on.

    I saw it a week ago as I went to the airport. The guy driving his Golf about half a foot form the end of the truck in front looked like he had less brains than sense.

    Still the Darwin award awaits


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    #27
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Preset No.3 wrote: »
    Class A1 WXXKER!!!!
    av8r10 wrote: »
    Read before you write you twat!
    Amalia Uneven Hairpiece wrote: »
    To the OP - you sir are a spastick, yo.

    This kind of posting isn't on in Motors, and won't be tolerated. Any more posts like this and there'll be infractions/bans as necessary.

    Thread locked.


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