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1st time climbing in Australia - help needed! 27-Nov-2012 At 3:59:33 PM lacto

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If hiring from "spaceships" be very aware of their $75 handling fee to forward fines for , parking , traffic offences and non payment of tolls . Melbourne , sydney and brisbane have toll roads that use a transponder or photgraph to collect payment . there are no actual toll collection points . Freeways have green signage and toll roads have blue signage and each one has either phone or website to contact re payment , We had a recent german visitor who went over sydney harbor bridge ( dont know what happened about that but it is a toll ) the logan expressway near brisbane , $75 charged to his credit card ,and the toll not paid ) then went on melbourne tollroads but fortunately was with us before 72 hrs expired so we were able to get a 24 hr pass . Find out what the hire company does about tolls , bigger ones appear good but the smaller firms may well be dodgey