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Bus carriers and road hauliers threatened with a false start of the toll system on March 1st. The road transport companies have not bought on-board devices and are refusing to pay a rental fee, which will cost them BGN 15 million a year. They also asked for a postponement for the introduction of the toll system.

The toll charges for heavy goods vehicles, weighing between 3.5 and 12 tonnes, will be from 3 to 7 stotinki per kilometre, depending on the emission class of the vehicle and the road catregory. This is set out in the decree adopted on February 19 by the Council of Ministers to amend the Tariff for fees collected for the passage and use of the national road network.

As of 5pm yesterday, the electronic toll collection system had found that 690 vehicles were traveling on the national road network without an e-vignette, the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) reported. 805 vehicles were traveling on the national road network without an e-vignette for yesterday

As of February 17, motorists who drive on the national road network in Bulgaria without an up-to-date electronic vignette will be liable to huge fines. The offenders will be filmed by the cameras of the toll system and will automatically be included in the database, BG TOLL said quoted by BNT.

As of 2 February 2020, the sale of monthly electronic vignettes for heavy goods vehicles with a total technically permissible maximum mass of over 3.5 tonnes shall be suspended. The last option to purchase a monthly vignette will be on February 1, 2020 and an expiration date of February 29, 2020, according to the Road Infrastructure Agency.

The toll system will be put into exploitation with a trial period which starts today.

The cameras which will detect the traveled distance are already installed. 

The TOLL system starts the testing today, however, the actual collection of the charges for trucks over 3 tonnes and a half will start in March next year.

The sale of monthly electronic vignettes for vehicles with a total Maximum authorised mass (MAM) of over 3.5 tonnes has been restored.

The National Assembly has adopted amendments to the Roads Act on second reading, a Focus News Agency reporter said. The amendments were tabled by GERB MP Alexander Nenkov and a group of MPs. 

The state expects to collect over BGN 1 billion  per year, reported NOVA TV. 

The first tests of the future toll system for trucks and buses started. The demonstration will take place at Lesnovo Airport.

Toll charges will take effect from 16 August and will only apply to vehicles weighing over 3 tonnes and a half. Cars will continue to run with electronic vignettes.

Trucks and buses up to 12 tonnes will pay a fee of about 10 Bulgarian cents per kilometer for over about 10,000 km of national roads to be covered by the toll system. This was announced by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (MRDPW), which starts talks with the carriers about the tariffs, reports Mediapool.