Thread: Queensland motorway tolls V defenders

I was under the impression it was to do with height, I seem to recall a post by lotz-a-landies about fitting a red-dot aircon unit to a perentie would raise the roof by enough to put it into the next vehicle class, although that's for NSW.
Not familiar with your rig but from memory you run a solar panel that sits fairly high at the front of your roof rack do you not?
Perhaps that's why.

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

I was under the impression it was to do with height, I seem to recall a post by lotz-a-landies about fitting a red-dot aircon unit to a perentie would raise the roof by enough to put it into the next vehicle class, although that's for NSW.
Not familiar with your rig but from memory you run a solar panel that sits fairly high at the front of your roof rack do you not?
Perhaps that's why.

Nah solar panel and massive roof rack went years ago......

Yes there is a thread about this...I am not going any where near e-toll to change our V8 powered defender, it is class 2 , suits us the way it is.

Mrs hh

Yep, had that discussion with them but it sounds like you fared better than I did.
They told me that not only did the 110 wagon not belong in class 2 but reckoned that the ute is a commercial vehicle and wanted to charge extra for that too.
That was four years ago now and I have not driven on a troll road since.
Funny thing is with all the road works on the Logan troll road it is quicker and cheaper to bypass it.

woody

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

I was under the impression it was to do with height, I seem to recall a post by lotz-a-landies about fitting a red-dot aircon unit to a perentie would raise the roof by enough to put it into the next vehicle class, although that's for NSW...

Hah! Height, now there's a perfectly logical means to base vehicle tolling on. Those tall vehicles definitely do a ****load more damage to our roads and must be taxed to buggery.



Idiots.

My 'not so helpful post' is that in NSW if that happens and you use your e-tag to pay the toll they drop the processing fee. Might be worth a try in Qld.

Weeds, I had a simalar situation to you, our tag would rarely beep at the Stapleton toll on Logan Motorway but would always get billed as normal (number plate regognition), until one day I recieved a bill like you as I was towing a trailer (it must only read the back plate). When I was paying the overdue toll I questioned the lady about my transponder not always beeping, she assured me it was always working. She could not explain why it didn't work the day I had a trailer on though. I have since moved the transponder from the bottom of the windscreen to the top and it seems to work better there.

Cheers, Mick.

Ahh, toll roads. Some might recall that my son received two toll fines for not paying whilst riding his bike on Sydney toll roads after he had died and whilst his rather bent bike was in the police pound in Albury.