The Gauteng E-tolling Thread

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I see OzzieCapie now claims that my figures are wrong. I eagerly await his "corrected" figures then...
 
DJ... said:
I see OzzieCapie now claims that my figures are wrong. I eagerly await his "corrected" figures then...
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He's part of Houses "social media team" to do "online reputation management".
 
DJ... said:
I see OzzieCapie now claims that my figures are wrong. I eagerly await his "corrected" figures then...
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Seriously, don't waste your time on that troll.

The truth has already been published in a hundred different places for him.
Let him go and educate himself.
No need to waste time on him, go have a beer.
 
Interesting. Wife hasn't received email or SMS for her drive during middle December. Would be interesting to see if they already handed her over.
 
Also can't wait for being handed over - been an avid Xmas toll-road driver and even during the period where one could look up fees, two cars I drove did not reflect any charges.

Interestingly enough when checking today at e-toll branch, one of my cars is according to Sanral registered in someone else's name although the traffic register / e-natis says otherwise - so no worries here - Sanral (according to House) will arrest the wrong person :whistle:
(BTW: Fascinating how lacklustre e-toll branch staff are about data-security - the staff did not even bother cross-checking my details/ID and just showed me all the details of the other person)
 
Pre-paid e-toll fees 'disappear'

Responses are flooding in from Fin24 users expressing their anger and frustration with the controversial new e-toll system in Gauteng.

A Fin24 user bought prepaid e-toll, but the amount was not reflected on his account. Now he is battling to get the money back. He writes:

I am a registered e-toll account holder.

At the beginning of December 2013 I topped up my prepaid account with R450 using a credit card as payment on their website.

This money was taken from my credit card, but never reflected as a credit on my e-toll account.

I then spent a day of being pushed from pillar to post, speaking to one person then another. I was told to wait a day.

By the second day there was still nothing showing and I needed to get around that day, so I tried loading another R450. This time it did reflect on my e-toll account.

I then received an e-mail stating that the R450 had now been reflected on my account.

I then began to try and explain that it was in fact the second purchase of R450 that went through and that they still owe me another R450.

To date I have received nothing from them and it appears I won't get my money back. Absa bank said they were unable to reverse the transaction.
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MagicDude4Eva said:
(BTW: Fascinating how lacklustre e-toll branch staff are about data-security - the staff did not even bother cross-checking my details/ID and just showed me all the details of the other person)
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Soon someone will make the mistake of informing everyone that some malicious url hacking can reveal anyone's personal information via www.sanral.co.za, the Nigerians will be over the moon.
 
biometrics said:
He's part of Houses "social media team" to do "online reputation management".
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Garyvdh said:
Seriously, don't waste your time on that troll.

The truth has already been published in a hundred different places for him.
Let him go and educate himself.
No need to waste time on him, go have a beer.
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Oh I have absolutely no illusions of "corrected" figures being forthcoming. My numbers are solid, of that I'm sure...
 
DJ... said:
Oh I have absolutely no illusions of "corrected" figures being forthcoming. My numbers are solid, of that I'm sure...
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I would not waste any energy replying to his posts - better things to do - no sense at this stage to discuss the basic wrongs of e-tolling, rather focus on the crushing of it
 
a Guy I work with just got an SMS saying something to the tune of, you owe E-Toll fees in the amount of 0.00 and have been handed over... then seconds later got an sms saying thank you for you payment of 0.00.

LOL
 
i have a huge problem in that the company for whom i work employs 4 people who drive company cars.

the MD is insisting on getting an e-tag for each of them and there's nothing the staff can do about it :-(

this sort of thing could be the beginning of the end for those of us who are sticking together against e-tolls.
 
Visited the north this last week. Used a hire car so I had no choice but to live with the f'ing beep under each gantry (did my part to display my unhappiness in each photo though... which no one will ever see unfortunately). I actually felt embarrassed having this gawky looking piece of sh** stuck to the window. It was a dirty feeling that somehow I was unwillingly contributing to the decay of society. Would never actually stick one of those to a vehicle of mine. The horror. I didn't see many e-tags at all, not that I was really looking, but I would have noticed.

The car I rented actually had a sticker next to the tag warning that any tampering with the e-tag would result in a R1000 fine. Scare tactics much? I imagine that a lot of the cars people are seeing tagged are actually from the rental fleet... especially if the number plate is not GP.
 
maumau said:
i have a huge problem in that the company for whom i work employs 4 people who drive company cars.

the MD is insisting on getting an e-tag for each of them and there's nothing the staff can do about it :-(

this sort of thing could be the beginning of the end for those of us who are sticking together against e-tolls.
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No, no - that is fine - wait till the MD starts getting the incorrect billing, and being harassed by the collections agents.
 
Excuse my ignorance if this has been addressed previously.

Please help me with a not-so-hypothetical scenario:

If you have to travel on the GP highways on a daily basis (for work or whatever other reason) and you have no alternative route to take (or the alternative route adds an hour or 2 to your travel time, or is too dangerous to take, or whatever other reason);

Do you keep taking the tolled highways, defy the "system" and just keep racking up a bill for your travels? Can you afford to run up a bill of a few thousand (keeping in mind that if you're not registered the R450 cap doesn't apply to you) and decide to tackle the payment problem when it is addressed eventually (via invoicing, legal procedure, prosecution, or whatever);

OR:

Do you buckle under the pressure and get tagged, know that you'll only pay max R450 a month, bend over and take it up the tailpipe from SATANRAL?
 
FrankyF said:
Excuse my ignorance if this has been addressed previously.

Please help me with a not-so-hypothetical scenario:

If you have to travel on the GP highways on a daily basis (for work or whatever other reason) and you have no alternative route to take (or the alternative route adds an hour or 2 to your travel time, or is too dangerous to take, or whatever other reason);

Do you keep taking the tolled highways, defy the "system" and just keep racking up a bill for your travels? Can you afford to run up a bill of a few thousand (keeping in mind that if you're not registered the R450 cap doesn't apply to you) and decide to tackle the payment problem when it is addressed eventually (via invoicing, legal procedure, prosecution, or whatever);

OR:

Do you buckle under the pressure and get tagged, know that you'll only pay max R450 a month, bend over and take it up the tailpipe from SATANRAL?
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I'm doing option 1.

**** them. I will use the highways everyday for work and not pay them a cent.
 
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