Pavel Jelic If you own a vehicle with which you often travel on highways, then in the past you had an unpleasant duty every New Year – buying and affixing a new highway sign. Of course, it sounds simple, but this process also involves peeling off the old highway sign, which is the worst part. The highway sign tears when removed and often its pieces remain stuck to the glass and are very difficult to remove. To help, you usually have to take technical gasoline or sticker remover, which are completely substances that most of us don't want to take into the car voluntarily.
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But I have very good news for all drivers – you can already buy an electronic highway stamp in the Czech Republic next year. This means you can scrape the last classic highway sign off the glass this year. In addition to the Internet, it will still be possible to buy highway stamps in selected sales networks, anyway, buying an electronic highway stamp is really easy as a slap in the face and the whole purchase can be done without problems even by the older generation. If necessary, you can of course ask someone younger to buy it, and you can also buy a stamp for anyone as a "gift". You can buy an electronic highway stamp on the website edalnice.cz, and if you follow the events in the Czech Republic, then you certainly did not miss the quite funny start of this whole service.
If you wanted to buy an electronic highway stamp on the first day of operation of the mentioned service, you could do so only in the evening. The start was specifically planned for the morning hours of December 1, but practically immediately after the start the entire service collapsed and customers had to wait. At present, however, everything should run without problems, however, the website still lacks a few things to perfection. For example, when entering a license plate number or a phone number, the page will not warn you about the wrong format, so you should check everything three times before sending to avoid unnecessary problems. You can purchase a highway stamp using this link, where all you have to do is fill in the vehicle information, stamp validity date, stamp type, e-mail and payment method in the relevant fields. In addition, you can then be notified by e-mail or phone number of the expiration date.
You must be wondering what advantages an electronic highway stamp actually comes with. We already mentioned at the beginning of this article that you finally don't have to stick a sticker on the front window unnecessarily, so you don't have to hide the clipping with the vehicle's license plate anyway. Compared to the classic paper coupon, with the electronic one you can choose the exact date from which the toll stamp starts to apply, up to three months in advance. So you avoid the inconvenient solution with the paper version, where the toll stamp is always valid from the first to the last day of the year, regardless of when you buy it. The price of the electronic highway stamp is then the same as for the classic version – you pay CZK 310 for a weekly one, CZK 440 for a monthly one and CZK 1 for an annual one. If you have a vehicle powered by natural gas or biomethane, divide the amounts by two. You can pay the fee by card or bank transfer.
Of course, regular motorway coupons are still available, however buying an electronic motorway stamp is really a snap. – no more ordinary coupons!
I was kind of hoping to be able to buy a 1 day stamp as well - a lot of drivers would be fine with that. But then I realized that highway signs are not actually for drivers, but for the state, and they are fine with the current state – if I want to cross the highway in one direction and come back in 11 days, it will cost me a fortune.
You realized correctly that the state is not there for the people, but for the state. Unfortunately.
Somehow I miss the "price", which is higher than in Austria, and I'm asking for the paper, which I can buy anywhere. https://www.uamk.cz/sluzby-produkty-nabidka/dalnicni-kupony/rakousko
I would like to link here to another very useful article https://www.dopravniznaceni.com/elektronicka-dalnicni-znamka-v-roce-2021, where there are other important information