Austrian Tolls - Go Box?

Paolo Imberino
Paolo Imberino Forum Participant Posts: 86
edited February 2018 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

In May this year we will be travelling through Austria in our 7.77m 4.25GVW motorhome.

Any advice as to getting a Go Box?

Thanks 

 

 

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  • eurortraveller
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    edited February 2018 #2

    No personal advice, but Google will point you directly to pages of other people's experiences in MotorhomeFacts, MotorhomeFun and the incomparable MagBaz Travels. Click away ! 

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited February 2018 #3

    This link might help https://www.asfinag.at/toll/go-box-for-hgv-and-bus/

    David

  • allanandjean
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    edited February 2018 #4

    Hi, if you are 'travelling through' just to get somewhere else then depending on your destination there may be alternative routes that don't require a GoBox.

    Our travel companions have a 4.2 tonne MH and we have traveled to Italy via Austria without needing a GoBox.

  • commeyras
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    edited February 2018 #5

    The toll/Go Box free route to Italy is via Germany (Ulm) - Fern Pass - Landeck and Reichen Pass into Italy.  You join the Italian motorway system near Bolzano.

  • AOK
    AOK Forum Participant Posts: 24
    edited April 2018 #6

    Hello. I have just joined the forum and looking through old posts for info. I guess you have sorted your trip now but just in case you haven't ... We travelled into Austria from Lichtenstein two years ago with our 3.8 tonne rated Autotrail. I tried to get a Go Box at the border from what looked like an official office but they just dismissed me - I think it was really for trucks. I then stopped at the first service station on the motorway in Austria and got a Go Box from the petrol station payment desk. It was a painless process - just showed my 5Vc and passport and paid my money - I think I topped up to about 100euros. fitting the box to my dash was straightforward. Every time we went under motorway gantry in the next 10 days the unit bleeped to let me know it was working. I never found a place to hand the box back in and get some cash back before I moved into Germany so it is at home collecting dust just in case !!

    Good luck with your trip

    Gerry

  • Paolo Imberino
    Paolo Imberino Forum Participant Posts: 86
    edited April 2018 #7

    AOK 

    Thanks for your Go Box experience. Likewise we'll buy one at the service station or border. Do you know if you can top them up by credit card via internet?

  • MichaelT
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    edited April 2018 #8

    I think you can PAYG using a Direct Debit or and AMEX card but best check in the link DK gave above in case it changed.  Saves pre-funding the box and having to top it up.

  • AOK
    AOK Forum Participant Posts: 24
    edited April 2018 #9

    I am not sure about topping up by the internet which is why I topped mine up to a point that I didn't think I would be able to use it all. As I said in my earlier post I didn't get a refund. In theory you should be able to stop at the last service station before you leave Austria and hand the box back in and get a refund of any unused credit. I found myself in Germany before I saw a service station and just put the extra cost down to the "experience". Have fun on your trip. Gerry

  • Eurotour
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    edited May 2018 #10

    I notice the Fern Pass has been suggested as a toll-free route option, which I have used a number of times in the past. It is my understanding that this is now tolled as an expressway like a number of past options. 

    If over 3500kg, Switzerland is a far cheaper option the ten-day self-cert Heavy Goods tax which is valid for (10 days ) in the calendar year from date of purchase, is less than £30 (subject to exchange rate). Once into Italy, the tolls are fairly reasonable for a two-axle vehicle, even if you are traveling through to Slovenia, which has now opened up another can of worms. 

    What with clean air stickers and electric toll tags we will soon be needing bigger windscreens. Why there cannot be a common toll tag for all the EU countries that have adopted that system of collection baffles me!  

  • Paolo Imberino
    Paolo Imberino Forum Participant Posts: 86
    edited May 2018 #11

    Eurotour

    Thanks for info.

    Yes why don't we have a central European one toll system..... but  Europe has this wonderful ability to take a simple idea and complicate it. Europe is very good at creating complications.

    My answer is to register the motorhome in my dogs name along with the tax and insurance. My 4 year cavapoo will get all the tickets. Toll avoidance tickets are sent to her and she chews them up as they come through the letter box. Simple really...😜

  • allanandjean
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    edited May 2018 #12

    I notice the Fern Pass has been suggested as a toll-free route option, which I have used a number of times in the past. It is my understanding that this is now tolled as an expressway like a number of past options.

    Hi Eurotour,would be interested to know why you think its now tolled? We used it a couple of years ago and, so long as you dont use the Landecker Tunnel,the route over the Fern and onto Prutz was toll free, as is the onward route over the Reisa and on to Bolzano.

  • peedee
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    edited May 2018 #13

    I came through Austria toll free a few days ago using the Fern pass and the old Brenner Pass road the B182. It does mean you have to go into Innsbruck and you do need to look carefully for the B182 signs. I missed them and found myself on the way to Igls on the L33 and L38, a very steep narrowing twisty mountainous road. Although it does eventually join the B182 I do not recommend it. I really should have "u" turned.

    peedee

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