2025 Toll Increases

Ridiculous

 

What is this money fixing

 

Great time to compete on the spot market by being the cheapest truck.

 

No biggie, you can get around most of those tolls anyway.

 

Oklahoma I44 is $25 from Joplin to Tulsa, and $25 Tulsa to OKC.

$100 round trip on 200 miles, and they’re gonna jack it up again?

 

One of the toll commissioners bought a fixer-upper.

 

In my years of having a CDL even before I actually started driving a big rig. I've always wondered what was done with the money collected to cross the GW Bridge. I haven't been across it in years. But I could clearly see that the toll money wasn't getting put back into repairs. The last time that I crossed it.

The tolls from east and west bounds crossings equal to $350 Million per year!!! Does the money collected just go in the pockets of the Port Authority of NYNJ? And they only put maybe $50k per year in the actual bridge? Hell it seems that they go up on the rate for trucks every year.

 

Oh come now, this should be no surprise. I come from Wisconsin, where we never had any tolls. We were always upset, Illinois drivers could drive for free in our state, yet we had to pay to drive in theirs. And I'm sorry, don't say "just go around the toll roads", no freakin' way. Some of my most dangerous trips involved taking 2 lanes because the owner was too cheap. Better to hit a school bus than pay the toll, and the gubment knows it. To me, a toll automatically took money out of my pocket, and for the most part, toll roads are generally in better condition, but shouldn't that be the governments job? Until there is some sort of unity in this business, that could possibly stand up to this foolishness, they can and will do whatever they please.

 

Thriving businesses make sure their customers pay their operating expenses. The bottom feeders barely making ends meet doing their best to be the cheapest company can't afford to charge the customer properly. Unity is bad for business. Helping your competition survive is counterproductive.