Customers of the country’s largest chip issuer, Fremtind service, received an e-mail this week about changes to the agreement. From 1 November there will be a subscription to the toll tag. – It will cover the costs of buying and distributing chips, says commercial director Svein Skovly in Fremtind service. From the outset, the company gets to keep 1.75 percent of what customers pay in tolls, but that is not enough. Commercial director Svein Skovly at Fremtind Service. – You collect eight billion kroner every year. Why can’t you use some of that money to cover increased costs? – We will not keep the money we collect. Our job is to collect tolls on behalf of the Norwegian toll companies. For that, we get 1.75 percent of the collection amount. It may sound like a lot, but it’s not. Car organization: – Toll profiteers Earlier this year, chip issuer Flyt announced that they would charge five kroner in monthly fees. It was first labeled as illegal by the authorities, but then approved by the Norwegian Roads Administration. When Fremtind now also introduces monthly rent, it can provide additional income for the bomb chip companies of NOK 180 million a year. Photo: KNA / Tomas Moss Community contact Tor Valdvik in the Royal Norwegian Automobile Club (Kna) believes the practice is reprehensible. – Kna reacts strongly to the fact that we will now have toll profiteers in this country who introduce a kind of private tax dictatorship. On news’s Helgemorgen on Sunday, he asked how the government could accept that the companies could take additional payments from Norwegian motorists. – If they can’t get it going around then there is no basis for further operation. Then they have to leave it to others. Skovly in Fremtind says they relate to the framework conditions that have been given. – We hardly recognize toll profiteers. The costs for these pieces could have been allocated elsewhere, but then the toll crossings could have become more expensive or the repayment period longer. Following the development State Secretary Tom Kalsås in the Ministry of Transport writes in an e-mail that the fees are strictly regulated. – The ministry has asked the Norwegian Public Roads Administration to follow this development closely, by demanding a monthly fee instead of a deposit for the chip. Tor Valdvik in Kna says that motorists through tolls already pay approx. one billion kroner for administration. – You can imagine the reaction if private daycare companies had introduced a fee of 180 million due to price increases. Customers at Fremtind have previously paid NOK 200 as a deposit for the toll chip. – Those who have paid a deposit will not have to pay until 40 months have passed, says Skovly in Fremtind.
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Tow truck companies can collect an extra NOK 180 million from the car lists – news Troms and Finnmark
