Call to action for 171 registration owners

10 January 2017 – Mobility solutions specialist, easytrip, Ireland’s only electronic parking and tolling tag provider, is reminding motorists to update their easytrip account details when buying and selling a vehicle this January. New car registrations surpassed *146,000 in 2016, the highest since 2008 and it’s expected that cars sales for 2017 will exceed this.  Final sales figures for 2016 also showed that Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) sales increased by *18.3% while Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV) registrations were up by *31.3% compared to 2015. Easytrip is urging owners of new cars and vans to keep their vehicle details up to date with easytrip to avoid incurring toll bills and in particular eflow penalty notices from use of the M50.

 Possible scenarios that can lead to you paying unnecessary toll charges include:

• Buying a new car: if you’ve bought a new car and transferred your existing tag to it but forgot to update your account details, you’ll risk receiving a toll bill (billed at the higher rate) and penalty charge if you’ve travelled through the M50 toll plaza as your new car registration is not connected to your toll tag account.
• Selling your old car: if you’ve sold your old car and inadvertently left your tag in the car and haven’t updated your toll tag account, the new owner could continue to use your tag at most barrier toll plazas, racking up a bill connected to your account.

“We don’t penalise customers and we don’t want to see our customers charged unnecessarily and so we want to remind our customers to remove their tag if selling or trading in their vehicle this January and to update their easytrip account details accordingly”, says Colin Delaney, General Manager, easytrip.  “Likewise if you’re purchasing a new vehicle please ensure that you update your account once change of ownership has been finalised.”

Existing easytrip customers can update their vehicle details through their online account or by contacting easytrip on 1890 67 67 68. Signing up to an easytrip tag account is simple, you save on toll fees and avoid incurring fines from the toll on the M50 motorway.  For more information log onto www.easytrip.ie.

*Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) statistics released 3^rd January 2017