Avis supports e-toll, sees positive impact

Arthur said:
Charging more than the toll is not wrong or unfair.

By starting tolling, the State has imposed a number of additional costs on many businesses. Car rental companies have to modify existing computer and accounting systems, employ additional staff (with offices, desks, equipment, &c) to administer the toll-collection system.

These imposed costs are over and above the nominal toll charge.

They are entitled to recover those costs from their customers. And they will.

Some car rental companies might get sharper in their advertising and claim to "only charge the actual toll". But you can be certain the extra costs are recovered elsewhere, in the 15 other little cost elements that make up the total car rental package paid by the renter.

Personally, I commend Avis for being open and upfront about it. It'll be interesting to see who hides it elsewhere.
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Just one more reason not to suppport these daft e-tolls ..

An increase in the fuel levy would have incurred no administration burden on any company except the fuel distributers (who's burden wouldn't won't have increased as they do it anyway for the current fuel levy). But try & explain that to those that cannot even deliver school textbooks.

E-tolling is nothing but ArmsGate2.0 .. #ProudlyBroughtByTheANC
 
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Arthur said:
Charging more than the toll is not wrong or unfair.

By starting tolling, the State has imposed a number of additional costs on many businesses. Car rental companies have to modify existing computer and accounting systems, employ additional staff (with offices, desks, equipment, &c) to administer the toll-collection system.

These imposed costs are over and above the nominal toll charge.

They are entitled to recover those costs from their customers. And they will.

Some car rental companies might get sharper in their advertising and claim to "only charge the actual toll". But you can be certain the extra costs are recovered elsewhere, in the 15 other little cost elements that make up the total car rental package paid by the renter.

Personally, I commend Avis for being open and upfront about it. It'll be interesting to see who hides it elsewhere.
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Likewise, it is not wrong nor unfair for consumers to refuse to use the services of a car rental company that overcharges for etrolling fees compared to what competitors are charging.

After Avis has recovered the money it has had to spend on upgrading it IT systems for etrolling, will Avis continue to overcharge for etrolling ad infinitum?

Similarly, companies that bamboozle consumers with hidden charges, generally become very unpopular over time, and since most people who would be hiring a car have access to the Internet, you can be sure that hidden charges will not stay hidden for long.
 
House said:
The Gauteng toll road system has been established with the poor in mind. They will not be affected. As you may be aware that poor people do not have cars or even the money to maintain one - they make use of public transport such as taxis. Taxis do not pay toll fees in order to ensure they do not raise fees.

The toll road system is aimed at the working middle-class who still have some money available and government will not stop until they have bled dry every single cent from these people.
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You're confusing the poor and those in poverty. The poor certainly have jobs and cars
 
evilstebunny said:
Just one more reason not to suppport these daft e-tolls ..

An increase in the fuel levy would have incurred no administration burden on any company except the fuel distributers (who's burden wouldn't won't have increased as they do it anyway for the current fuel levy). But try & explain that to those that cannot even deliver school textbooks.

E-tolling is nothing but ArmsGate2.0 .. #ProudlyBroughtByTheANC
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And increase in the fuel levy would have those of us the in WC paying for GP roads. No thanks
 
JStrike said:
And increase in the fuel levy would have those of us the in WC paying for GP roads. No thanks
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Ag f0kof , beat a dead horse much?

And besides what stops them from doing a fuel levy increase for only Gauteng, wow look at that, its rocket science
 
rakabos3 said:
Ag f0kof , beat a dead horse much?

And besides what stops them from doing a fuel levy increase for only Gauteng, wow look at that, its rocket science
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This has been repeated ad infinitum, but JStrike has his head in the sand !
 
My solution: Add a 10c per liter fuel levy for the whole country, but ring-fence it so that each province have access to only their respective collected income for road maintenance. So a province with more cars, more roads and more fuel consumers (eg Gauteng) will collect more money to use in their province than for instance North-West with fewer cars, fewer roads etc. There is already a ring-fenced additional transport levy included in the petrol price for Gauteng, so this can very easily be expanded to cover the other provinces.

The fuel levy fund for each province can be put into a trust fund or something with strict rules to avoid corruption and to prevent the spending of this money for anything else than road upgrades/maintenance.

The current e-toll system have an admin cost of 40c for every 100c collected, which is absurd. By adding a fuel levy to the petrol price the oil companies sit with the burden of collecting and paying the money to SARS.
 
JStrike said:
And increase in the fuel levy would have those of us the in WC paying for GP roads. No thanks
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For those of you in WC, just in case you are unsure of this:

Etolls.........coming to a road near you soon!

Once this project gets going, there is no stopping it
 
Compton_effect said:
I drove Europcar rental this weekend in Ramsgate. Picked it up at King Shaka and it had a CY numberplate.
Pride of place on the windscreen was a sticker - that warned you that removal or tampering of the E-Tag would result in a R1000 penalty fee.
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I drove a rental car from tempest 6 months ago. It had an etag that clicked every time I passed a gantry. Car rental companies are not stupid, they will ensure that the client pays for their usage plus a minimum admin fee/commission tacked on. They are not going to let this affect their bottom line. I'll bet they have already integrated it in into their billing platforms before the original start date. All they had to do was to plug in the tariffs
 
Jola said:
It is at national government level, they may be able to delay it, but I don't believe that they can stop it.
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Eventually residential roads will be tolled too...
 
Well at least my company pays all my Avis bills so no eTollies coming out of my pocket :p
 
JStrike said:
And increase in the fuel levy would have those of us the in WC paying for GP roads. No thanks
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Firstly, governmmet funding already works this way. In addition, you will feel the inflationary pressures in any case.
Secondly, support e-tolls, and they're headed your way soon

By all means, get upset. But get upset with the right people here. Government spent the cash willy-nilly and now it must be recovered somehow. As I've previously shown, e-tolling recovery does not make sense. While I'm not a fan of a fuel levy for long-term infrastructure funding, it is the best option available to use now, in the situation we find ourselves in...
 
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