Portugal toll road update.

Source of this information please? I'm in Portugal now, and have had conflicting information, ranging from A22 + 1 other I can't remember, to A4, A22, A24, A25 and A28. Internet searches haven't been very productive!

The bad news is that the A2 and A1 plus many more still have tolls, as friends recently found out to their cost!
 
It was announced by the government, and in the papers, .All tolls on the roads I mentioned have now been removed.
 
Thanks for the clarification 😊. I'll make sure our friends have the full list!
 
i also saw it tolls removed from jan 1st but the ones with toll booths still charging
 
Very important to get the tolls right in Portugal and keep any receipts.Any fines are collected by the scam scum EPCPCL. See this BBC Watchdog report https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...pTPX/watchdog-european-parking-collection-plc
There are many pages on the internet about their behaviour and Hungary and Portugal seem to figure very regularly in the complaints.
I believe they get photographs of vehicles from those countries and send fines/invoices sometimes years after the event.People have either not kept all the vignette paperwork,forgotten,or accept they were at fault and pay up thinking it is the end of the matter. Nice little earner split between EPCPCL and the relevant country.
I received 2 for a journey in Hungary demanding £200 for an offence that had not taken place.Luckily I had kept every piece of paperwork and eventually they accepted that I had bought a vignette and there had been "a technical error"
Many posters say not to pay as these invoices cannot be enforced in UK but it can be very worrying and I'm sure lots of people just pay up even if they have not committed an offence.
 
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Very important to get the tolls right in Portugal and keep any receipts.Any fines are collected by the scam scum EPCPCL. See this BBC Watchdog report https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...pTPX/watchdog-european-parking-collection-plc
There are many pages on the internet about their behaviour and Hungary and Portugal seem to figure very regularly in the complaints.
I believe they get photographs of vehicles from those countries and send fines/invoices sometimes years after the event.People have either not kept all the vignette paperwork,forgotten,or accept they were at fault and pay up thinking it is the end of the matter. Nice little earner split between EPCPCL and the relevant country.
I received 2 for a journey in Hungary demanding £200 for an offence that had not taken place.Luckily I had kept every piece of paperwork and eventually they accepted that I had bought a vignette and there had been "a technical error"
Many posters say not to pay as these invoices cannot be enforced in UK but it can be very worrying and I'm sure lots of people just pay up even if they have not committed an offence.
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Now in the day when I drove my truck all over Europe, we would buy the cheapest ladies hairspray and spray the unit and trailers number plates with large amounts of said hairspray.
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The theory was when the newly installed European speed cameras flashed and took a picture the hairspray reflected back, hence no image of numberplate was recorded, or so the cloggie drivers (Dutch) told us.
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Now was it correct??, did it work??, Well I must say Returning from northern Italy to the Uk late on Thursday nights I didn’t keep to the 80kph speed limit that often, I have never had a speeding ticket abroad, yes I’ve been through the flashing cameras late at night, I was never fined.
 
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