Id Expensive Mexico Toll Roads!

I think last year we were about 240 U.S. Maz and back. Tag axle towing 4 down. Bus and a car, Truck and a car; we also have been wrong every time, almost entertaining. no, it is entertaining.

If I had to worry about a few bucks more or less, I probably couldn't afford to go anywhere in the US, let alone travel to Mexico for 5 or 6 months. What stops our travels is things like cancer, knee replacements and other assorted ails of advancing years. That said, it is good to know in advance what the approximate charge will be. We always try to figure out what the toll will be by reading the posted rate coming up to the booth, we are mostly wrong!

Nicely done. Very clear, to the point, and very true. Thank you.

I posted the link to the website with the calculator for a number of reasons.......

1... Depends on what vehicle the traveler is traveling in - tolls vary depending on vehicle or vehicles - towing or whatever - what one vehicle pays has nothing to do with what another vehicle pays.

2... What someone paid last year or a few months ago - or years ago - has nothing to do with what the tolls are today - or what they might be tomorrow. The calculator will give a reasonably close estimate of what tolls one might encounter and what the toll might be for various vehicles.

3... You must add different vehicles together when using the calculator as they show individual vehicles for the most part and not combinations of vehicles - though in some cases we are charged as if we were a truck/trailer combination - maybe not all toll booth personnel see through the same eyes.

4... We are a motorhome with a single axle but with dual wheels and we tow a basic 4 wheel car - we are almost always charged as a bus and a car - they charge us just as they would charge a bus and we have never heard anything said about dual wheels or single wheels. I know many on this forum say they look for duals but we have never had this situation occur to us - maybe they charge for a single wheel pickup or a dual wheel pickup differently - I have no idea. We are charged the rate for a single rear axle bus just as the calculator shows - number of wheels has never ever been an issue for our specific vehicle.

5... From the time you calculate your route there could be rate changes and what you find at the booth may not be exactly what is shown in the calculator. All should be aware that you can get an approximate estimate but do not be surprised if the rate at the booth varies a little bit from what you estimated with the calculator. If you find a large variance then maybe it would be good to question the toll collector about how they arrived at that fee.

6... We often take libres that parallel cuotas so our total tolls paid between Point A and Point B could vary substantially from someone who only takes cuotas or someone who only takes libres. You can only approximate your total costs by using the calculator for your specific route using your specific vehicle.

I have tried to clarify this as best I am able. I hope this helps. Trying very hard to stay on topic.

La Peñita Nayarit to Sonoyta Sonora using HWY 200 to Tepic, MX 15D to Santa Ana, and HWY 2 to Sonoyta, late March 2014, SRW Pickup and 2 axle 5th wheel, cost $186.00 US.

The original question was to identify the expensive toll roads, and it seems that most topics stemming from a simple question requiring a few answers turn to every thing but the answers, I placed the amount of money that we spent on the trip, that might help someone travelling the same route, the fuel cost was the most expensive part of the trip.

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I see a lot of inconsequential babble on this forum alright, and other forum topics too, but most of it isn't from David, or Chris. They almost always disagree but they BOTH have valuable insights on Mexico, because their experiences are worlds apart, unlike others that just seem to run other posters down.

qtla9111 wrote:
I've never heard so much baloney in all my life. I'm surprised anyone even reads this forum anymore. Who would want to come to Mexico after reading all this?

I hear a lot about promoting rving and tourism in Mexico, well it sure as heck isn't happening here.

You and I and hundreds of others have heard this BS for years. Always from the same sources of course, which is the key. You know the old saying, " you can cure stupid but you can't cure crazy"

Impossible to take this incomprehensible babble seriously!

Uh yeah "Once Upon A Time" gets interupted by

"Another fosfo is discovered with 2,000 remains"

And you are worried about telling it like it is with regards to exactly why things are so expensive down here. What are you 2-3 hours from shopping in Texas? Try six long days to the Arizona Border and one hundred seventeen dollars an CAR TOLLS EACH WAY. Calling facts "baloney" is not the most intelligent thing a person can do.

This is a living, breathing, functioning country with a lot of warts. And scabs. I knew this at age 17 some 52-years ago on my first trip. Did it discourage me? Did being held at gunpoint in Chajul Guatemala scare me back under my bed in the USA? Did waking up 25-years ago at 0300 to a man holding a pistol scare me back to Peoria? Yeah I found the jammed tight but unmortared bricks in the bathroom once thet were put back by the cops. A three hundred dollar lesson.

If you want to sell tickets to Knotts Berry Farm, hire on as a travel agent.

Or you could be like that gringo I saw in San Lucas dragging his roof piece by piece back through a doorless opening and he was wearing a sopping wet red NO BAD DAYS shirt.

You being in Mexico's wealthiest per capita city cannot imagine the poverty of people so poor they have not been on any toll road in thirty years. Or seen Tarahumara indigenous forced to walk because ticket prices on El Chepe have doubled and trebled in price.

Mexico's treasure is not its beaches or jungles or pyramids. It is its people who laugh at my phrase Tortillas salt chili and music. Newcomers who do not wish to gawk at dioramas but see the country as it really is end up returning over and over. The "let's do Mexico" crowd are welcome do come, dump a lot of money then mosey on down the trail. The people that "come despite the Mexicans" can drop off the edge of the earth. Being a citizen and having a large family down here wipes away the hyperbole. The real actual wart-laden core of this country laid bare separates the finicky flaky tourist from actual travelers who return year after year, decade after decade.