Motorhome over 3m high

Alternatively only use the toll roads when strictly necessary, e,g. bypassing major cities like Tours. It is also far more interesting.

peedee

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This is usually the case for obvious reasons and usually there is a Pèage on the approach to a town followed by a free by-pass section e.g. Lyon.

Two notable exceptions: if you take the Autoroute South from Calais (a sensible choice as the N road alternatives are tedious) the new Autoroute around Reims is a toll road.  Also, if you take the Autoroute approaching Rouen travelling North the best road to Calais is to stay on the Autoroute until Calais is signposted. It takes you over the river and connects straight to the dual carriageway but will cost around 3 Euros. Sounds daft.

Hi FJ,

I don’t quite understand this statement above.   “ If you are over 3m, with ac fitted or over 3.5t”.  Remember, it is either or.    With your ac you are over 3m and this does affect your toll charges and ferry charges.   There are also some sites you will not get onto as well.    I went to one at Moissac in France last Sep where it had a 3m height limit.    My van is 2.98m high so I am always checking.     At some point in the future I might have changed my Kon-tiki for the new 2019 version which has some exciting new bits on it, but the downside and killer is that it is now 8.11m long and 3.06m high.   Both of these stats incur huge increase in running cost.   What are Swift thinking about?!

BillC

Just came back from France at New Years Eve with my MH which is including roofbox 3.4 m. Therefore it is under 3.5t I have been charged the normal rate on the motorway and tunnel tolls. So I believe the toll will be charged on weight not height. Hope this helps.

my MH which is including roofbox 3.4 m. Therefore it is under 3.5t I have been charged the normal rate on the motorway and tunnel tolls

I don't quite follow the logic there: height is 3.4, therefore it is under 3.5t ???

Tolls are not charged on weight, how can they, where and how would they be able to weigh each passing vehicle?  Earlier on in this thread, on page 2, peedee stated: "I have read the height sensors on the French toll roads check the front vehicle height and anything mounted further back is ignored."  Therefore, your roofbox, which presumably sits much further back than straight above the cab, wouldn't be measured. 

Our previous MH was a 5t tag-axle model.  We only ever paid Classe 2 for that, even though it was obviously well above the magic 3.5t, and should definitely have been a Classe 3.  But it was below (just) 3m and that is all that's measured.

Don't forget that in Slovenia its the height of the windscreen measured along a line running through the front wheel bearing. If this is more than 1.8 metres the vehicle is classed as a class 3. This causes problems for 'A' class vehicles.

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Don't worry about it. The guys that run the autoroute don't understand it either. As far as teyre concerned if it looks like a motorhome it is a motorhome as long as it spends euros in their country. So just get the ordinary car vignette.

It seems a pretty ridiculous criteria in that it would be very difficult to measure in a real life situation.