If Belgium is your next destination as a tourist or carrier, you need to set off informed about the tolls related to the Belgium vignette.
If you drive your own car, we have very good news: you are exempt from paying the vignette! Belgium road tax payment is only required for vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes.
Instead, regardless of the type of vehicle you travel with, you will have to pay a Beglia toll for the Liefkenshoek tunnel.
In this article, we’ll show you everything you need to know about how to buy a Belgium Vignette and other Belgian road taxes, so that you’re ready to hit the road at any time without any problems.
And if you are looking for solutions to pay road taxes in the rest of the countries you will transit, on the CargoTrack website you can find information for each country in Europe.
Free Belgium vignette for cars
In the case of cars, Belgium does not require the payment of a Belgium vignette, so you are exempt from this effort. It is a considerable advantage if you are a tourist on the plains of Belgium.
However, you must be aware of the traffic rules and the tolling of the Liefkenshoek Tunnel, where every vehicle is tolled.
Vignette Belgium trucks
Regarding the Belgium truck toll, drivers of vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes are required to purchase a Belgium vignette.
In turn, truck drivers will also have to pay the Liefkenshoek Tunnel toll, which you will find out more about below.
In this sense, Belgium has implemented the ViaPass system since 2016, replacing the Eurovignette system.
Thus, all vehicles over 3.5 tons must be equipped with the OBU (On Board Unit) equipment.
This OBU device is intended to record your kilometers traveled and issue you the required amount of payment, depending also on the region of Belgium, the weight of the vehicle and the pollution class.
Its installation is quick and mandatory to avoid the high fines in Belgium for not paying the Belgium vignette.
How can you purchase Vignette Belgium?
To purchase a Belgium vignette, you can choose to buy the OBU equipment from the jukeboxes specially installed on the territory of Belgium, but also at its customs.
These points of sale are both for the collection of the equipment and for the return of it at the completion of the route through Belgium. Thus, as long as you are on the roads of Belgium, you need to have the OBU equipment on board, and at the end of the trip you can easily return the equipment to other points of sale.
You can find more about purchasing a Belgium vignette here.
How are you charged by the ViaPass system?
Depending on the region of Belgium you are traveling in, the polluting vehicle category and depending on the weight of your car, you will be automatically charged differently by the OBU equipment.
You can find more about the amount of Belgian vignette fees here.
Taxe pentru tunelul Liefkenshoek
A user charge also applies to the Liefkenshoek tunnel. The tunnel is 1.37 km long, and the toll is imposed according to the vehicle category.
This fee must be paid at the toll station located on the road section of the bridge.
Go here to see all the details of the fees charged by the bridge operator.
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