The Polish Toll Sytem: Getting a viaTOLL box

For those of you in motorhomes over 3.5T who want to get a ViaTOLL box for Poland here’s how it’s done:

How to find your nearest viaTOLL distributor
Open viaTOLL website
http://www.viatoll.pl/en/trucks/viatoll-system/viabox

Click on EN at top of page to display in English (or choose language for you)

Then click on the red box
Vehicles with GVW >3.5T

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Next click on the white box in the top right hand corner with the horizontal red lines.

This will give you these options. (You must have the red VEHICLES WITH GVW>3.5T for this to work

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Now select the ‘customer service’ drop down arrow.

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Next click on ‘find customer service facility’

This will take you to this screen

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To go straight to this page just follow this link:
http://213.25.68.37/dp/(X(1)S(mbrhd355cmj2x4554qzacj55))/Default.aspx?lang=en&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Enter the name of the town you wish to search for we were in Wroclaw so we typed in Wroclaw. Then click ‘search address’

Address will then appear in the box below shown in yellow. Next click ‘start search’.

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You will then be given a choice of contractors. If you are using a smart phone if you scroll right on the contractor names you will see their addresses. There is also a map but I could really understand the different option.

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If you click on the one you want it will show you the opening times and full address.
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Just enter the address in you sat nav and off you go. You may want to have a look on google maps satellite option to see which address has the easiest access and parking available. I had to do some moving around to allow lorries in and out while Tony was sorting out the paper work.

The paperwork!!!!

You will need:
Pass Port
Driving Licence
Log Book
A Credit card

We were then told that our log book did not show what type of engine we had (we have a Euro4 engine). For this they need evidence of the year of manufacture. The year of registration shown in the log book is apparently not good enough. After lots of searching through boxes, looking at MOT certificates, manuals etc. under the bonnet. We both agreed we didn’t have this and Tony went back into the office with every bit of paper we have. Luckily for us the very nice Polish man found it for us on a vehicle check document we had from the DVLA. The only reason we had this ad it was part of the vehicle check information given to us from ‘Don Amott Leasure, Hilton, Derbyshire’ when we bought the lovely ‘Squeaky’.

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So once they are happy with your documents you need to pay a 120 Zloty deposit (today the exchange rate is 10 Zloty is £2.20) plus Pre Loading the box with another 120 Zloty. Checking on the ‘my metro bank’ app this came to £50.44 in total.

We have it. 😀

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So now with Toll no longer disabled our time to Auschwitz has gone down from 4 and 1/2 hours to 2 and 1/2 hours.

Our first Toll:

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It worked. Well it beeped and let us through.

Good Luck Folks. Hope this helps someone navigate the mission that is getting your ViaTOLL box.

Happy Travels

Sian and Tony

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