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.