I'm getting a hire car delivered to get me home from work. The quickest route has me crossing the QE2 bridge. However, they've removed the toll booth, and you're now supposed to pay the toll online.
I don't know what the car's registration is supposed to be until it gets delivered, so I can't sort it out now, which annoys me. I'm not looking forward to fucking about on my phone for half an hour to sort it out after I get in the car; the voyage will eat enough of my day up as it is.
I can't find any clear legal guidance on this issue; nothing that relates to a hire car. As I understand it, though, any fines incurred to the car would be paid by the agency, and the charges passed onto my employer, who hired the car.
This whole scheme is universally detested, and obviously a terrible inconvenience for everyone who knows about it. To most people around the country and world, they'll never even know about this stupid online pre-pay bollocks. It's obviously a egregious con.
I'm so annoyed by the whole thing's inconvenience that I think I'll just drive around the M25 southbound. Fuck tolls.
That brings me to my other question- what the hell can we do about these fucking tolls? There's no ethical justification for the Dartford crossing toll; the bridge was paid for twelve years ago. It boils my fucking piss- the toll amounts to nothing more than legal theft.
The M6 toll road is another waste of time. A fiver to use a road that's always fucking empty! Piss taking fucks.
Yeah, there's this whole empty road with like five lanes or something stupid, of course you're going to speed. So, of course they built little hills for the coppers to hide behind to catch people out, in order to fine them. Buzzkill cunts.