Brisbane toll roads,
in a hire car.

Short version: every Varenni vehicle carries a toll tag, so you can use any Brisbane toll road without arranging anything. What you use during the hire is added to your account afterwards.

1. The seven tolled roads

South East Queensland has seven toll roads. Every other road you are likely to drive — the Pacific Motorway, the Bruce Highway, the Western Freeway, Coronation Drive, the lot — is free.

• AirportlinkM7 — the tunnel between the inner north and Brisbane Airport.
• Clem7 — the north–south tunnel under the river, Bowen Hills to Woolloongabba.
• Legacy Way — Toowong to Kelvin Grove. This is the one closest to us.
• Go Between Bridge — the short river crossing between Milton and West End.
• Gateway Motorway — the eastern bypass and the Gateway Bridge.
• Logan Motorway — the southern east–west link.
• Toowoomba Bypass — west of Brisbane, on the way to Toowoomba.

2. How tolls work in Queensland

All of them are fully electronic. There are no booths, no gates and no way to pay cash at the road. You drive through at normal speed and an overhead gantry records either the tag in the windscreen or the number plate.

Prices differ by road and by vehicle class, and they are reviewed periodically, so the current figure for any given road lives on the Linkt site rather than here — we would rather point you at the live number than publish one that goes stale.

3. What this means on a Varenni hire

Nothing to arrange. The tag is already in the car, so you are free to take Legacy Way to the airport or the Gateway up to the Sunshine Coast without thinking about it. The tolls you actually use during your hire are passed on to you afterwards — you pay for the roads you drove on, and nothing for the ones you didn't.

You do not need to open a Linkt account, buy a visitor pass, or set anything up in advance. If you are visiting from overseas, that is one less piece of admin on arrival.

4. If you would rather not use them

You can drive almost anywhere in Brisbane without touching a toll road, and your phone's maps app will do it for you — look for the "avoid tolls" setting in the route options. The trade-off is usually time rather than distance: Legacy Way and the Clem7 exist because the surface alternatives are slow.

From our Indooroopilly motor house, the city, the western suburbs, the Gold Coast run down the M1 and most of the airport trip can all be done toll-free if you prefer.

5. Fines and infringements

Tolls and fines are different things. A toll is a road charge. An infringement is a penalty notice from an issuing authority — a speed camera, a parking officer, a toll-road notice where travel was not paid.

Traffic, parking and toll-road infringements incurred during your rental period are your responsibility. Where an issuing authority sends a notice to Varenni as the registered operator, we pass the fine on and may charge a reasonable, disclosed administration fee for identifying the driver and processing the notice. That is clause 18 of the rental agreement, and it is worth reading before you sign it.

Toll road names taken from Linkt's published list of Queensland toll roads, reviewed 15 October 2026. Toll prices and pass terms change — check linkt.com.au for current figures.