Contents
Everything on this site, in one list.
The eight guides are the reading. The pages after them explain who publishes bgtol and how the site handles information. Nothing here is a product.
Catalogue updated .
Guides
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01
Network
The motorway network, and where it still breaks
A practical reading of Trakia, Hemus, Struma, Maritsa, and Europe motorways, including the gaps a driver still has to plan for.
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About 18 minutes
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Cars
Driving a car on Bulgarian roads
Documents, speed limits, priority, belts, and what changes when a motorway ends and an ordinary road begins.
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About 19 minutes
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Two wheels
Motorcycles on Bulgarian roads
Lower speed limits, the vignette rule for vehicles with fewer than four wheels, and how mountain roads differ from a motorway.
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About 15 minutes
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Freight
Freight and heavy vehicles
How the distance-based toll differs from a car vignette, and what mass, axles, rest time, and mountain roads change for heavy vehicles.
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About 17 minutes
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Charges
How road charges are organised
An explanation of the time-based e-vignette and the distance toll. bgtol does not sell either, and cannot check a plate.
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About 17 minutes
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06
Season
Winter and mountain roads
The cold-season tyre period, passes that change with the weather, and how a cleared motorway can still lead to a difficult exit.
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About 15 minutes
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Signs
Signs, markings, and who goes first
Who overrides whom on the road, how sign shapes are grouped, and why a built-up-area sign changes the speed you may use.
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About 16 minutes
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Planning
Planning a drive across Bulgaria
Five common corridors, with the gaps, borders, fuel, and rest stops that a straight line on a map leaves out.
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About 16 minutes
The publication
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About
Who publishes bgtol, and who does not.
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Contact
Address, phone, and three mailboxes in Sofia.
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Editorial policy
How pages are sourced, dated, and corrected.
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Disclaimer
What this reading is, and what it refuses to be.
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Privacy
What the site stores, and how to write to us about it.
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Cookies
Preference storage, and how to reopen the choice.
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Terms of use
The conditions for using the pages.
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Accessibility
How the pages are built, and the limits of that work.
How to use the list
Three ways through the same eight guides.
The catalogue is a contents list, not a ranking. Pick the path that matches the vehicle. Each path still ends at the sign in front of you, not at the last sentence on the page.
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A car, one day
Start with the network, then the car page for documents and the four speed bands, then charges so the vignette is not confused with insurance. If the date is inside 15 November to 1 March, add winter before you look at a pass.
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A motorcycle
The two-wheel page is the one that changes the speed table and the vignette line. Category A does not inherit the car’s 140. Fewer than four wheels sits outside the vignette fee described on the government page. Mountain notes in the winter guide still apply to the rider, because a pass does not care which licence category is on the card.
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Freight
Read freight beside charges. The line is technically permissible mass over 3.5 tonnes, not the weight on the axles this morning. Distance, euro class, axle count, and road class replace the car’s time vignette. Driving-time rules in that guide apply to drivers who are in scope of the EU rules, not to a private car.
Signs and planning
Whatever the vehicle, the signs page is the order of instructions when they conflict: a person directing traffic, then a portable sign in the carriageway, then lights, then fixed signs, then markings. Planning is where the five corridors keep their slow sections instead of averaging them away.
Not in this catalogue
No vignette for sale, no route booking, no plate check, no insurance, no transport. If a link leaves bgtol, the sentence next to it says so. The operator’s site is not this publication.