Toll road divorce: scammers on the M4 highway

The degree of arrogance of road crooks just rolls over how to deal with them is unclear, but thousands of drivers suffer from them. This has become a mass phenomenon for travelers on the M4 highway from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don.

The M4 highway leads from Moscow to the south of Russia. After Rostov, he goes to Krasnodar, and then to the main Black Sea resorts, in Sochi and, ultimately, to Crimea. So there are more than enough people who want to ride with the breeze. You can go slowly and long, but you can quickly, through paid sections. Here are just some drivers do not understand the meaning of the word "paid" and try to drive for free.

Before the trip, I took a “drive” transponder to save time on payment points. I was warned to be careful and not drive up to the barrier if there are other cars in front of me.

There are traffic jams in front of the “plazas", many go for the first time and don’t understand how the toll road works. Therefore, they even occupy dedicated lanes for high-speed travel on the transponder.

Sometimes cars have to write strange maneuvers and drive perpendicular to the road! Just on the M4, the flawed system of alternating sections, where there is no alternative two-strip through the cities, paid becomes free. And then again and again. In the case of the photo, there is generally one plaza in two directions, some of the lanes go to Moscow, the other to the nearest Voronezh city.

Although I can not justify this by the carelessness of drivers. After all, I somehow noticed in which lane you need to get up. Not just because they jump from row to row!

Everything is visible from afar. The transponder thing is convenient, attached to the glass, reduced speed to 30 km / h and without stopping you pass through the booth. The barrier opens automatically. It is in theory so beautiful.

In reality, on the M4 highway, in front of the payment gate, cars like this Largus will surely “graze”. He stood right between the lanes, and when he saw that I was confidently going to the left lane, he quickly climbed in front of me, hoping to slip into a freebie. The signal is transmitted over the air and "finishes" even from behind the car going. In such a simple way, they drive themselves, leaving honest drivers at the closed gates. The second time the transponder does not work, and then you have to pay for yourself and for that guy.

Forewarned is forearmed. The barrier did not open. The swindler was left with nothing. I handed back and drove through a nearby gate. Most likely, he managed to seep on someone's pass. Unfortunately, it’s extremely difficult to bring scammers to justice, even if you call the guards or the police, the rogue will shrug: “I’ve thought, I’ve entered the wrong lane, sorry.

What to do? Do not glue the device to the glass, but store in the armrest or glove compartment. And get it only when no one is standing in front of you!

The worst thing is that people are ready to go for deception and crime for the sake of 40-150 rubles of savings. That is how much it costs to travel through one section of the M4, and the whole way from Moscow to Rostov is 700-800. And after all, from whom they steal - from the same drivers.