Be seeing you tomorrow afternoon then, I'll sit a small jar of Vegemite on the car for a photo so people don't think that it's all a photoshopped fake!
The North East isn't that far from your area though, I'm only about 130 Miles North of you and Sunderland's 40 Miles South of here, so I'd expect your total distance for the trip to be no more than 300 Miles at most, even allowing for the A19 being the pain that it is. An easy afternoon's work for a Dolomite.
Speaking of the A19; any vehicle on which VED is free travels through the Tyne tunnel for free!
Here's the chapter and verse of it, some toll booth staff know this, others will need to be shown the following document:
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2001 No.
HIGHWAYS ENGLAND
The Tyne Tunnel (Revision of Tolls and Traffic Classification) Order 2001
Made August 2001 Coming into force 28 August 2001
The Secretary of State for~Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of
the Tyne and Wear Act 1976(a) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf: hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Tyne Tunnel (Revision of Tolls and Traffic Classification) Order 2001 and shall come into
force on 28 August 2001.
2. The tolls authorised in pursuance of the Tyne and Wear Act 1976 are hereby revised so that, save as provided in article 3
below, the tolls which the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority may demand and recover in respect of all traffic
passing through and into the tunnel shall be those specified in the Schedule to this Order as from the date on which this Order
comes into force.
3. No tolls shall be charged in respect of any vehicle which is not chargeable with any duty under the Vehicles (Excise) act
1971
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(b) by virtue of section 7(2) of that Act.
4. In this Order
"motor cycle" means a mechanically propelled vehicle having less than four wheels and, in a case where a cabin is provided,
the cabin of which is not so constructed as to enclose the driver and any passenger;
"the tunnel" means Work No.2 referred to in section 12 of the Tyne and Wear Act 1976;
"maximum gross weight" has the meaning given by regulation 3 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations
1986 (c).
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5. The Tyne Tunnel Tolls (Revision of Tolls)Order1999(d)is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority· D ROBERTS ofthe Secretary of State An Under Secretary in the Department for ......... 2001 Transport,
Local Government and the Regions
(a) 1976 c.xxxvi (b) 1971 c.10 (c) S.l. 1986/1078 (d) S.l. 1999/2394 [DTLR .......
OK, so it only saves you £2.40 in total, and sitting there in the daytime is probably less economical than just going along the Tyne and over the Bridge then through Town but hey, it's something for nothing.
