Cashless on the autostrada
Italian hauliers operating beyond the country’s borders can now also test a product provided by DKV to pay the fees on toll roads without having any cash in their pockets. The service provider has 4.2 million cards and on-board units in use in Europe.
DKV, which was founded in 1934, has offered the operating company’s toll products for Italy for more than 30 years. Last autumn Italian motorway operators gave their consent to test the deployment of the ‘DKV Box Italia’ unit. Since then road hauliers deploying trucks exclusively in national operations have been able to test the advantages of cashless payment for long-distance transport runs.
New year, new markets
In future the mobility service provider will supplement the range of services it offers its customers by also providing the ‘DKV Box Europe’, another one of its products for vehicles with payloads greater than 3.5 t. They will thus be able to pay Italian road tolls without having any cash in their pockets.
The pilot phase began early in January. Jérôme Lejeune, DKV Euro Service’s managing director for toll options, said, that it represents an “important step for DKV, because Italy has one of the most important toll motorway networks in Europe.”
The new market has joined others in DKV’s network. Road hauliers can already pay their tolls without using cash through DKV’s European box in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Austria, Portugal and Spain, as well as at the Warnow crossing, the Herren tunnel and the Liefkenshoek tunnel.
“By adding Italy to our network we’ll now cover eleven toll systems with one box,” Lejeune added. And that’s not all. DKV is set to add Hungary’s and Switzerland’s systems to its network this year too.
