Is Road Pricing on its Way?

So how do they gain from it-how being the operative word🤷🏻‍♂️. It’s easy to say ‘they circumvent the payment system’ but how do they do that🙄🤔

Outrage?, I doubt that. As JV points out from his personal experience it’s cheaper👍🏻. Outrage will soon be dropped to be replace by joy when the ‘ker-ching’ factor kicks in. The great British public are renown for their outrage until money sneaks into the equation😂😂

A recipe for "rat run" activity to escalate.

 The extra time it would take via "rat runs" that in our area are mostly covered with the installation of traffic carming measures would it be worth it for a few pence?

Just for interest there are according to a quick search over 700,000 cars on UK roads illegally without tax, or VED. Multiply that by the lowest band and you can see how much is 'lost' already.

Cloning and using the identity of others. It’s the basis of most internet fraud and I don’t see why road pricing would be any different. If it’s lucrative, then clever fraudsters will target it. Banks spend £billions on trying to keep one step ahead every year. An account based system regularly receiving data from a network of tracking systems will get hacked and circumvented in ways we’re yet to see.

Unless they all fill up and drive off, at least the 700k avoiding VED probably pay for fuel so are paying some duty. It used to take me about 3 weeks to recover my ‘fines’ courtesy of some lowlife cloning my car reg.

I wonder how they intend to tackle size of vehicle, as I assume there will be different charges due to the amount of surface damage caused by heavier vehicles. Would every vehicle require a specific fitted unit. Or would you just have the one, like with our Emovis  tag and sensors along the roadside would establish vehicle type, as in class 1 or 2 in France and the unit would communicate its presence and entry into the charged sector. It also raises the issue as to wether caravans would be charged for. It always amazed me when we owned one, that it was free from any sort of road tax, as it significantly increased how much rubbish my XTrail was pumping out.

Like this truck?! TESCO (link) Yes it will be interesting how taxes are raised, whichever way we'll all be paying something.

So, Govt agencies will continue to allow this to happen without systems of integrity to stop it. Even with the VED we have now, why isn’t there an uproar about this🤷🏻‍♂️😤

Such is life….

Banks make provision for £billion of losses as part of doing business on the web. Why should Govt agencies be any different? In reality it will be contracted out to some half-competent facilities management company. The only bit that really bothers me is how easy and quick it is to get my money refunded when I’m the victim? Internet fraudsters lurk in the shadows, at least VED dodgers have UK registered names & addresses!