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They do like to make it difficult for heavier motorhomes to enter their country. I wonder just how many don't bother and go to, or through Switzerland instead.
We've just had a nightmare journey through Austria. Our van is 3.8t and we only wanted to go less than 100km over the Brenner Pass from Germany to Italy. Minimum charge with the go-box €80!!
So we decided to try and avoid the toll roads - ha! Went in from Bavaria over Aachensee, along the Inn valley no problem. Then met restrictions for anything over 3.5t on every single route. We took a chance and stayed on the non-toll road and got away with it, but they REALLY don't want anything over 3.5t on any roads except the toll, which is daylight robbery.
I thought the Swiss were a pain, but Austria is just ridiculous. We don't mind paying tolls, but €80 is around €1 per km, it's a joke. We won't be doing that route again, that's for sure... so much for a free market!
[quote="peejay"]Yep, I think it does put a lot of people off.
They do like to make it difficult for heavier motorhomes to enter their country. I wonder just how many don't bother and go to, or through Switzerland instead.
Pete[/quote]
your right pete, were in bad waldsee at the hymer factory now. we have decided as our hymer is 4000kg. not to go into austria but take a slow trip up through germany stopping on stellplatz. we are looking at going to unterkirnach tomorrow which you recomended followed by a stop at freiburg.
mike.
NO, you can't just stick to the A roads, that's the problem. If you try to get from Innsbruck to Brenner and you're over 3.5t, there are restrictions to stop you. We got away with it but we could have easily been stopped, and then would have had fine to pay on top of the €80!
You don't come across the restrictions until coming out of Innsbruck, so we didn't have much choice but to carry on and hope for the best. I'm not saying all A roads have these restrictions but I don't know how you're supposed to find out in advance, it just seems like a money-making scam to me.
Has anyone been stopped and had their Max weight checked by the Austrian police?
Secondly, have any of you driving < 3.5t MHs on restricted roads noticed any MHs which are from your knowledge > 3.5t, and did you see blue-flashing lights behind?
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