Tolls
Since 1997, the use of all autobahns requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker) for passenger cars up to 3.5 tonnes or a GO-Box (electronic toll system) for trucks and buses. On routes which are more costly to maintain, mostly Alpine routes with tunnels —sections of the Pyhrn Autobahn, the Tauern Autobahn (Tauern Tunnel) and the Karawanken Autobahn (Karawanken Tunnel), as well as the Brenner Autobahn— an additional toll (Maut) is required which is collected at time of use via toll plazas.
Vignettes (coll. Pickerl) are available in varying lengths of validity (10 days, 2 months or a year). A vignette valid for a year currently (2011) costs 76.50 EUR for cars and 30.50 EUR for motorcycles. Since 2004 trucks must carry the GO-Box, a little white box which counts the length of the Autobahn used by way of electrical control points, queried by overhead DSRC microwave radio transceivers at different locations. Overhead 3-D infrared laser scanners are used to detect and photograph trucks travelling without it. A fine of €110 must be paid if a vehicle is on the motorway without a GO-Box or a vignette, or a fine of €240 if a vignette is not affixed onto the windscreen or in one of the approved places or the vehicle is on the motorway with a vignette that has expired or been tampered with. If the driver refuses to pay the fine, then the fine will increase to between €300 and €3,000.
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—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)