Nearly 30% savings on tolls: this very simple tip allows you to pay much less for your journeys on the motorway
|Une astuce permet de faire de sérieuses économies sur son long trajet sur l’autoroute. MAXPPP – Jean-Marc Quinet
Lorsque vous roulez sur l’autoroute, un moyen très simple permet de réaliser des économies sur un long trajet.
Pay less for motorway tolls by leaving and re-entering immediately at certain defined exits? This is the ingenious trick that Franck Saless found, a Nantes resident who examined a report from the Court of Auditors on motorway concessions.
Up to nearly 30% savings
In this way, for example, on a journey linking Perpignan-Nord to Montpellier, usually costing 16.80 euros, a driver can save 1.40 euros by taking the Narbonne exit -East then returning to Narbonne by the same "exit". In detail, the Perpignan-Narbonne section then costs 5.70 euros and that between Narbonne-Est and Montpellier 9.70 euros. Or 15.40. Which means a saving of 9%, indicates L’Independent. A tip that many drivers have been able to apply since.
"The savings for a city dweller for a Paris-Lille journey can go up to 28 % ! " declares Franck Saless. "Take advantage of this to fill up with gasoline at a lower cost since fuel is much cheaper off the highways or to take a lunch break away from the motorway stations. You just need to locate in advance a gas station near a highway exit, a picnic area or a restaurant, much more typical than a chain, he concludes.