UTA offers on-board unit for Scandinavia

Easy payment of toll, tunnel, bridge and ferry charges in Norway and bridge charges in Denmark and Sweden
Rapid transit through over 50 toll stations with the BroBizz® Box

With its new BroBizz® Box, UNION TANK Eckstein GmbH & Co. KG (UTA) is now offering an on-board unit (OBU) that can be used to pay tolls in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. The box calculates and pays tolls for the use of roads, tunnels, bridges and ferries in Norway and those payable for the use of bridges in Denmark and Sweden. This allows UTA customers to pay the tolls for over 50 toll stations quickly and automatically as they drive past.

As of January 1, 2015, commercial vehicles in Norway weighing over 3.5 tonnes in total must have an OBU for the purposes of paying road tolls. With the BroBizz® Box, drivers can pass toll stations more quickly and more easily. Not only does the box guarantee the automatic calculation and payment of road tolls, it can also be used to pay charges for tunnels, bridges and ferry trips in Norway and for bridges such as the Storebælt bridge (DK), the Øresund bridge (DK-SE) or the Svinesund bridge (SE-NO). In Denmark and Sweden, vehicles weighing over 12 tonnes must still pay the road tolls with the Eurovignette, which can also be booked through UTA.

„With the BroBizz® Box, our customers can fulfil the legal requirements and reduce expenses at the same time“, explains Kay Otte, Marketing Director at UTA. „Thus, we have added a further OBU to our product range that we can offer our customers as an interoperable solution based on their individual needs.“ Fixed installation of the device is not necessary as it is battery operated.  Therefore, switching it from one vehicle to another is no problem. UTA customers using the BroBizz® Box can enjoy discounts of up to 13 percent on the cash price in many locations.

About UNION TANK Eckstein
UNION TANK Eckstein GmbH & Co. KG (UTA) is one of the leading suppliers of fuel and service cards in Europe. Using the UTA card system, commercial customers can fill up and use other transit services at over 53,000 stations in 40 European countries, independent of brand and without the need for cash. Included in these services are toll payments, garage, breakdown and recovery services, as well as the reimbursement of VAT and mineral oil duty. Founded in 1963 by Heinrich Eckstein, 51% of the company is in family ownership (represented by the families Eckstein and van Dedem), whilst 34% held by Edenred SA and 15% by Daimler AG. Company headquarters are in Kleinostheim/Main. With around 400 employees, the UTA network has an annual turnover of nearly 2.6 billion euros. UTA has been chosen for the 10th time as one of the most customer and service-oriented businesses in Germany, according to the consultant firm ServiceRating, the Mannheimer Institute for Market-Oriented Management (IMU), the polling institute YouGov and the industry newspaper Handelsblatt. www.uta.com