brooks379 wrote:
You think you have it bad when it comes to tolls.....
Driving a semi from west to east and you have a 4 am appointment to unload in NYC no time to by pass them.
Kansas $8.50
Pa. $145.00
NJ $85.00
George Washington bridge $90.00
Fee just to enter the produce market $25.00
Fee to have your trailer unloaded $175.00 to $350.00
and now you have to turn around and pay going back west unless you have the time to bypass the tolls...but probably not because EVERYONE wants their truckload delivered ASAP !!! I hope I never have to cross the Mississippi river going east ever again !! Been there done that many times and don't ever want to do it again. Tolls suck and they just keep on going up, up, up !!
That was my point the axle fees are really directed at commercial truck. Seeing what they pay puts it all in perspective.
Now the 80K loaded trucks do cause the most wear on the roads hence they should pay the most. RV's also cause more wear than a passenger car thus the additional fees.
But at the end of the day it will never be fair simply because government is not efficient enough and people are not smart enough to develop and operate a fair system.
Life's not fair and neither are tolls but we are probably better off with them than without them
