By Tim Ferguson, 1 March 2007 13:05
For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for heavy goods vehicles on the autobahn.
So far the scheme, since January of 2005, has collected around 6bn for the German government. There are 120,000 registered users and 1,400 service partners - such as those who install terminals.
Here a more complex unit connects back to the van using a flavour of wi-fi.
Read more about what Tony Hallett found out when he went over to Germany.
Photo credit: Tony Hallett
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