My Wife and I hire cars on a regular basis. We often have to traverse the Dartford crossing. On occasion, one of us forgets to pay our £2.50 charge online which results in a ticket going to the hire company.
On 3 occasions, the hire company have provided our details to Dart who manage not to reissue the ticket to us until the time to pay has passed at which time they manage to issue an escalated £105 fine.
I'm not stupid, just forgetful and disorganised. I tried to call up and pay on 2 or the occasions just a day over when I remembered but they will not take payment and say wait for the fine. I then tried to pay the fine that had been issued to the hire company but they refused that too saying I had to wait for the reissue which didn't come.
Once I could have excused as the due to the post, but 3 times?
Just curious if anyone else had the same experience and if there was a pattern to be seen.