Motorists can already prepare for a further increase in prices on motorways in 2025.
This is more bad news for motorists. While waiting to know the new toll rates soon – most certainly on the rise from the 1er February 2025 – another expense item will soon increase on highways. Motorway companies still have no intention of lowering their prices, and for users the bill will be even higher next year. Especially if you have the misfortune of having a mechanical problem with your car, whether on a section of the A1 towards Lille, the A4 near Strasbourg, the A10 near Bordeaux or the A7 near Marseille.
Breaking down your car is never fun and it’s even worse when it happens on a highway. Parking on the side of the motorway, on the hard shoulder, can generate a certain amount of stress due to the danger linked to the speed of vehicles passing a few meters away. There are not ten thousand solutions for getting repaired. You must walk to one of the orange emergency call terminals located every 2 kilometers along the tracks.
By pressing the call button, you are put in contact with a motorway operator who contacts an approved recovery company. Only these approved companies have the right to enter motorways to help motorists in distress. It is precisely the prices for these repair and towing operations that will increase once again in a few weeks.
Again because it’s the same refrain every year! In 2024, prices had literally jumped by almost 5%. The increase will be less significant in 2025 but it will still flirt with 3%, 2.8% to be precise. For a vehicle weighing less than 1.8 tonnes, i.e. most private cars – even if more and more SUVs are approaching 2 tonnes – the cost of a repair on a motorway will amount to 148.67 euros compared to 144.52 euros this year It’s 4 euros more on the bill and 10 if we refer to the rates applied in 2023. For vehicles over 1.8 tonnes, the price will increase by an additional five euros, going from 178.70 euros to 183.83 euros. It was 170 euros just a year ago.
In addition, the cost of a highway repair is increased if the intervention is carried out at night (from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m.), on weekends or on a public holiday. You must then count 50% more on the bill. For a vehicle whose weight does not exceed 1.8 tonnes, the bill will therefore exceed 220 euros in 2025. To which repair costs will obviously have to be added…