Please watch this video to know more about paid roads also known as Toll Roads in Australia.
A number of toll roads in Australia are cashless and only accept payments via an electronic tag or online. It is not uncommon for travellers to get caught out when driving through toll roads in a rental car. If you are driving interstate or if you are an overseas traveller in a hire car, you need to pay your tolls within a certain time frame to avoid paying any extra fees.
For short period rentals, you possibly could just pay the tolls online as you travel. You will need to know the name of the road you travelled and find the website of the correspondent authority online.
If you intend to rent a car for a few months or longer, we would recommend you to open an e-tag account, those are only paid as you travel and don’t involve any monthly or annual fees. It will also be handy if you travel to Australia often. It is easy to link and de-link any cars to your account. Thus you would register the account only once, then keep updating the number plates of the hired car in the system of the tolling company. Technically you will not even need to carry your e-tag device in the rental car with you. Although it is recommended to avoid paying extra fees for the number plate identification.
To help you out with your next long term car rentals in Australia, here is an outline from Low Cost Car Rentals on how to obtain the toll roads pass for up to 30 days period.
New South Wales (Sydney)
RMS eMU Pass
Motorists are required by law to pay the toll when they drive on a toll road. If you don’t have an electronic tag, you can set up a electronic pass before you leave home or up to three days after you travel on a toll road. You will have up to 2 days to set up the Pass, if you happen to use the Toll roads without a e-Tag.
What are the costing Involved?
- $1.50 online start up fee
- Relevant toll charge plus a $0.75c video processing fee for each toll
How to set it up?
- You can call them on 13 18 65
- You can set up a Pass using the RMS Online service via the following link and click on eMU pass link Paying tolls
To see the map of the toll roads or estimate the cost of using them, please visit Toll Calculator
Victoria (Melbourne)
CityLink
You will have up to 3 days to set up the Pass, if you happen to travel on one of their Toll roads.
What are the costing Involved?
- $5.50 online start up fee.
- Relevant toll charge plus a $0.75c video processing fee for each toll
How to set it up?
- You can call 13 26 29
- You will find all the Passes CityLink sell via the following Link Buy a Pass.
To check the tolls prices, please see here.
Queensland (Brisbane, Gold coast, Cairns)
goVIA
You will have up to 3 days to set up the Pass, if you happen to travel on one of their Toll roads.
What are the costing Involved?
- The relevant Toll plus
- Video processing fee for each toll (To find out the Video Processing fee, please call 13 33 31, as they change it from time to time)
How to set it up?
- Can call 13 33 31
- Buy a pass on their Website via the following Link Go via Road Pass.
You can calculate your toll here.
