1st euro trip, Calais to Florence, what toll class

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Franglais:
Landcruiser 100 is 2.6T
Brain James trailer can go near 1.5T for a covered race trailer.
100L tank, so put in 80L ? Thats saving 40? eu cents a litre on Fr supermarket prices? Thats 32-ish euros, each way.

O.P. doesn`t say what (if any?) car(s) in the trailer is, and what documentation is with it. New? Classic? Race? Crashed? If registered, where?
I would give Swiss a swerve if there is any possibility of a problem with weights or docs.

m_attt:
Hi
wondering if could tap into the vast knowledge on this site, I have a job to take a Pickup and car trailer from the U.k to Italy and have only driven on holiday in europe not to europe before.
Trying to work out what toll class a 4x4 Pickup 5m long 2.2m high and car trailer 6m long 2m high would come under, is it really class 4 hgv :astonished: this make tolls horrendous, and not worth doing the trip.
Is there a better route to avoid most toll sections?
thanks

I am guessing he has been given a fixed price for the job and therefore would want to get up and down as quickly and cheaply as possible, cheapest ferry DFDS get it into Dunkirk and your onto free dual carriageway/motorway from 1km off the boat to the Swiss border, a fee for crossing Swiss then tolled in Italy to his turn off in Florence for all that sitting between 60/70mph non stop. 707km from Dunkirk to Basel so 7 hours driving roughly, the whole trip done in 3 days.
Go through France 20 minutes from Calais you hit your first toll, French nationals 80km/h, 70k’s at junctions, 50k’s in urban areas plus the navigation to keep you off the tolled motorways. Calais to Blanc Tunnel 895km using motorways yes it brings you further south but how much more will using nationals add to the mileage and MPG?
If tolls were not a problem then yes through France every time.
With regards to paperwork if it is iffy for the Swiss then it will also be iffy at Calais when he tries to enter the UK, I lifted a transit van in Holland as part of a groupage load 3 hours of my life I won’t get back spent at Calais with UK customs, a Dutch boat builder thinking that putting 1 x Transit Van on a CMR would suffice.