“They forced me to pay twice and threatened with bailiffs” – how the Central Ring Road became a trap for motorists

Problems with the operation of the Central Ring Road arise for various reasons and do not bypass even those who use a transponder (an electronic device designed to register the fact of passage through a toll road).

“A few days after driving through the Central Ring Road, a robot of the Avtodor company called me and informed me about the debt for the trip,” says Boris Rogachev. – However, I remember that I used a transponder and the payment had to be debited. I decided to drive to the office of the Central Ring Road and figure out what was the matter. According to the operator, it turns out that the transponder must be fixed strictly in a certain place under the windshield (there is a short video on the Avtodor website, this place is behind the mirror). Despite the fact that the transponder beeps when passing through the contactless payment antennas, the system considers that there was no payment. “

Sometimes the fare has to be paid twice due to obvious system failures, and motorists are immediately threatened with bailiffs:

“One site in Avtodor’s personal account is listed as paid,” complains Boris, “and in the extract that the manager at the Central Ring Road office gave me, it is also listed as unpaid. Moreover, it is interesting that, in the extract on paper, “Nosovikhinskoe highway – M-7-2” is drawn, where 2 is the lane under the reader. And in my personal account, the lane is indicated at number 3. That is, my car was, as it were, on both lanes 2 and 3 at the same time. Miracles are not otherwise. As a result, I had to pay the fare a second time, because they began to threaten me with bailiffs. “

Often, many find in their personal account a debt for a trip that they paid for exactly.

“One day I drove along the Central Ring Road on my head on the section from M5 (Ryazanskoye Highway) to M7 (Yaroslavskoye Highway), on the same evening I paid for the fare on the website, through my personal account,” recalls Aleksey Burlov, “in a few days They started calling me from the Unified Operator of the Central Ring Road and demanding to pay off the debt. I was very surprised by this turn of events and once again checked my “debt” on the site. As there was, and there is no debt there. I haven’t made any other trips around the Central Ring Road, except for the above, and I don’t understand where this incredible debt came from ”.

The Central Ring Road has its own call center, whose employees must deal with controversial issues, but for many Android users, calls from this call center do not go through, because they are defined as spam.

“For many clients of this company, as well as for me, calls from the Central Ring Road operator by the Android system are defined as spam,” says Alexey, “this leads to calls being ignored, which in turn leads to fines for clients who honestly consider themselves to have fulfilled their obligations. in front of Avtodor to pay for their travel. Where are the guarantees that if I use the Central Ring Road again and pay for my fare, I will not receive a second bill again, followed by another and another. It turns out some kind of illegal enrichment of the beneficiary of toll roads. “

The operators of the support service of the Central Ring Road do not always help to sort out clients with problems and shift the responsibility onto each other.

“I contacted the support service because I was charged twice, by transponder and by numbers,” recalls Georgy Shumilov. – They politely explained to me on the phone that they were useless and that they didn’t know how to do anything, we had to write to them in the “feedback” column. I downloaded the app and wrote through it. Two days have passed, there is no response, not even an automatic one in the style of “your appeal has been registered.” I wrote again, now through the site. I didn’t get any answer either. I wrote to the chat, the operator advised me to write to the “feedback” section, they say they will sort it out within five days. The problem is that if the debt is not paid in 5 days, a fine will be issued. “

Some people do not even know that they are entering the toll section of the Central Ring Road, because there are no signs, and then heavy fines come, but it is impossible to prove something to someone.

“I absolutely accidentally learned from my daughter, who, in turn, read this on some forum on Facebook, that the Central Ring Road is paid in places,” says Natalya Alekseeva. – It turned out that there is a personal account on the site, I went there and saw several invoices and penalties for late payments. I do not argue, I am partly to blame for the fact that I did not check which sections of the Central Ring Road are paid, however, on the sections themselves there should be some kind of signs or signs, at least one – but not. And the main thing is that you can’t prove anything to anyone, they say: you had to go to the site and read everything before using the road. What if a person like me is aged and not very friendly with modern technologies? As a result, there are 3 late payments and fines in the amount of 4.5 thousand rubles, by the way – an impressive amount, considering our patches. “

Avtodor, the manager of the Central Ring Road, did not answer questions from The Insider at the time of publication.