Governor Eric Holcomb announced on Tuesday that Indiana would be increasing tolls along the infamous Indiana Toll Road by 35%… but only for vehicles Class 4 and up.
Since the Indiana Toll Road is operated by a private company, the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company, they are not currently required to disclose how much they estimate that the tolls will cost truckers in total. But for the right to increase tolls, the company is paying the state $1 billion over three years, so the cost to drivers will likely be significant.
A single trip across the Toll Road used to cost a Class 8 truck $44.50. Now that cost will jump to $60.07… though drivers can save $.05 by using E-ZPass.
The state will be using the money to finance different infrastructure projects. This includes:
- $20 million in incentives to bring more international flights direct to Indianapolis
- $90 million to add new hiking, biking, and riding trails
- $100 million in improvements to broadband access for rural areas
- $190 million for improvements to U.S. 20, U.S. 30, and U.S. 31
- $600 million to complete the final part of I-69 between Martinsville and Indianapolis 3 years earlier than expected.
The Toll Roll Concession Company will also be required to invest $50 million into upgrades for the Toll Roads themselves.
But while Gov. Holcomb touted the toll increases as being about “one Indiana, right down to our smallest town,” critics see the increased tolls as just taxes in disguise.
“Make no mistake, these huge increases will eventually be passed along to consumers,” said Rep. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, according to the Indy Star. “Taxing one industry that uses the toll road in northern Indiana in order to support the various needs of other parts of the state is ridiculous.”
The increased tolls will go into effect October 1st.
Wow, that’s stupid
Hike rates for the worst tollroad in America and not doing a damn thing to improve it, governor Holcomb is a god damn clown
Can you say another lawsuit like in Rhode Island. Discrimination, plain and simple.
yep. greed.
a balanced toll it is not.
The Indiana toll road is a piece of crap. The more the tolls go up, the worse the condition of the road gets. Enjoy your cocaine Governor.
I agree, their roads are the worst in the country. One would assume that since you charge us to use the toll road it would be a decent ride, but not Indiana. It’s the most bumpy, uncomfortable, ride in the country. Not including the wear and tear it puts on our vehicles, they should be paying us to use it.
Actually Indiana is #2 in the USA for having the best roads. Which is BS. Indiana has the worst Roads I agree
This is ridiculous!!! Boycott all deliveries to all towns & cities by truck let’s see what happens.
No, just use state roads pay no toll. Local towns still get theird, not their fault and you het paid. Local towns would get upset about extra traffic and push for something to be done. Can’t force you to use only toll road. More work for drivers but if it changes things, so be it.
And they wonder why there is a driver shortage sounds like the governor just wanted money he did not have useing the money for a bike trail is ridiculous the funds are for highway work not for someone to ride there bike that large of an increase I’m glad I’m only four years away from not needing to deal with it anymore
Use the money on the roads, not other things truckers don’t use. Stop using toll roads for a week and see what they do .
Get ready for higher prices for goods and services, Indiana. Make no mistake, the cost will be passed along to you.
If you want to make a decent impression, learn second grade English composition which includes punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. To post for public consumption something like this (unless you haven’t yet been to second grade), is nothing more than a disgrace!
That’s exactly what you need to write here at least kindergarten.the same things politicals stupids say about all truckers…I hope you have kindergarten.
What needs to happen is for trucking and or freight brokers to charge 40% more for freight going into Indiana . If a shipper won’t pay this increase, it doesn’t go.
I say tax every bike sold an additional 35% and all equipment the rider uses should also be taxed to fund bike paths.
make the bike riders pay their way
There is no driver shortage. The big companies have ordered to many trucks over the years.
Wow! Speechless. Very creative!
I used to like trucking… But not anymore. It used to be a decent job with decent paying wages. Not anymore. Everywhere you look some organization has got there hand in our pocket for our hard earned money or shoving some regulation down our throats. Trucking is becoming a has been.
Not to mention the majority of these companies anymore don’t want to pay anything. I’ve been seeing the same yearly gross average wages advertised on company trailers for over 15 years. Back in 2000 $50k/yr was barely ok money. But to be paying that today is just laughable!
This governor sounds like Richard Noggin in disguise….
I’m not the least bit surprised, since the name of the game is more, more, more. Use the money to fix the damn road, not to build bike trails like Colorado did 20 years ago. Seems these clowns have been passing the peace pipe….
This isn’t the good ole days for government anymore . Now Granted technically the Indiana Toll road is private property but people in general , including truckers , don’t see it that way . This war on truckers will not end good . The government is spoon feeding media this false narrative that Autonomous Trucks will replace truckers . Not for a long time if ever …. just watch how often you’re GPS rerouted or shows you in the middle of a lake or goes wacky in a new construction zone. Or even long existing construction .
Fact is the truckers of America hold more power than Wall St itself . We not only can cripple a state , like California, if we chose to but we can cripple the whole American Economy…. truth be told if 30 percent of the industry REFUSED to work for one week , Wall Street will suffer it’s biggest losses ever . . . The world Economy will be effected deeper than the Great recession and States like California, would see losses unlike anything ever experienced.
Here’s a fact …. an absolute fact , look around you , where ever you are . EVERYTHING YOU’RE LOOKING AT , NOW MATTER WHAT IT IS was moved in some fashion by a truck . Not one single thing can be made without a truck …. truckers are the REAL RULERS if we choose to be .
Well said! If only there was some way truckers could band together and shut down for a period of time that would be long enough to show the government who is really in charge. Like they did in Brazil. It cropped their country and made their government and citizens listen to them!
Canada truckers shut down for one weekend. Took country 6 months or more to get back on track. Sounds like a good idea.
But you can’t get 2 to agree on anything. It’s time they came together about a lot of things.
Exactly! Now why truckers don’t seem to understand this and use it to their advantage, I’ll never know.
I”m on the same page as you.every driver;not companies;needs to get together and do a 3day at minimum shut down and take a stand against trucks paying for local issues and unsafe highways and trucks Only tolls.these states and local governments are crying about no revenue for these projects and yet I see their revenue flying down the highways 10+mph over the speed limits and aggressive behavior and no traffic cops for miles
Praise the lord a Trucker after my own heart you are so right if we can all agree to get tuff shutt trucks down all of us for 1 week let. Peoples familys do without charmin,food ,medicines see how they feel about us then We ate among the hardest working and least respected and Iam sick of it I have 30 years as a female driver worked hard for everything I to am glad will soon retire
Damn right.
Could not have been said any better!! Woohoo!!!
Oh for sure, we’re talking gas, food, etc., even if it’s just 3 days where not a single rig moving, you might as well call it Armageddon.
Absolutely. Why do we constantly cow tow. And they want tolls on every highway next. Also from what ‘ve heard ( now this is hearsay). That private company is Australian. So all the profit is leaving the country. You are not allowed to own property in Canada if your not a Canadian. What have we done to this country?. For all his bad we need a a Jimmy Hoffa. Who will unite the truckers? We need unity.
You are super intelligent. When can we talk brother
Highway robbery by the government!!!
I dont care. I dont actually pay the toll, I add it to the shipping cost you the people reading this will pay.. please feel free to toll trucks on every highway this way when I pick up a oranges for example in Florida and bring them to seatle a .40cent perpound orange will be 8.00$a pound by the time it arrives to your grocery store. I be ok with that. Higher the tolls the higher the retail costs on everything.
Yes this is great news!! Just keep charging the truckers for everything, milk them for every last dime! Just being sarcastic. Seriously though, this is getting ridiculous. Truck only tolls, raising toll prices. This doesn’t get passed on to anybody but the truckers and trucking companies. I don’t see rates go up for all the added everything that’s stupidass states keep mandating. F this job!
I can’t believe we actually have to pay to drive on that piece of crap to begin with. I’ve seen 300 year old brick roads in better shape than that. I liken it to driving across the moon
Nobody forcing you to. Plan another route. Might take a little longer, but if it will help wake people up, isn’t worth it?
I always used Hwy. 20 when I went across Indiana 10 yrs. ago. Doesn’t seem to take that much longer.
hahaha…I totally agree! Your comment is hilarious!
The US roughest roads are in Indiana!
Indiana’s governor just give a ……….
about it!
Alot of company don’t allow their drivers to use 80 now. There will even more now. Feel sorry for the residents along 30, it’s already a parking lot most days thru the town’s. Imagine another 10 to 15 thousand trucks a week plugging it up. Next the tolls will be placed here. Nothing but greed.
Hope US30 is ready for even MORE trucks… I get it, we tear up roads more than cars do… But use the money to fix the road you are tolling, then when you have a set surplus, REDUCE the tolls
Keep the current toll increase where it is, but no new toll increases for 5 years and use 90% of the funds to fix the toll roads until done. Anyone else think that’s fair.
Love it. Everybody is ripping off everybody. Its a free for all so lets see who can grab the most cash. Not you you’re just a trucker who waves the flag for us.
If I am understanding you’re comment correctly than I must unabashedly say it is quite an ignorant one.
It takes a lot of nerve to even charge to drive on Indiana toll road since it is one of the worst roads in the country
Funny that in the list of things the increase would be used for, repairing the road itself is not one of them
Another discrimination against truck drivers. Governor you need to change the slogan “Indiana Crossroads of America “ to “Indiana Sh!t roads of America”
I guess my Indiana surcharge just went to $60.
200 million has nothing to do with these highway tolls increases, this is call legal theft it amazes me that that tge residents of Indiana don’t have to bare some of the responsibilities, it just gets dumped back into the trucking industry, and since 90 percent of the drivers that travel through the state don’t live there we have no say in the matter, it sounds like we need another boycott, stop using the toll roads
Right
Someone needs to respectfully ask the leaders of this country to take a few days to ride with us and see our side, ride the suspension killing toll roads, the congested truck lanes stopped due to reckless four wheelers who shouldn’t be allowed on the truck lanes, and of course, the drivers that have to mess with the trucks just to show how bog a person they are. Government, get a clue what really happens out there. One of the biggest resources this country has, is it’s abilities to move freight within and the drivers and support personal behind them.
Let the governor truck the stuff in and out of his state. Just another state screwing over truck drivers. I’ll never take a load there now. When stuff starts not showing up on your store shelves blame your governor.
When will these stupid people realize that citizens are paying this tax in the form of higher prices truckers will have to charge? They just allowed the state to charge them more tax and they dont even know it! And they call Southerners stupid?
The toll road sucks. How about you traveling it. Take the money and put it where the sun don’t shine.
Then us truckers dont need to travel down that toll way lets see how he will get his money then hell he needs to be charging the people in there own personal cars and suvs this shit needs to come to a dam end dont make no sense if us truckers were to just come togather with a plan alot of the bullshit would stop but half of u wanna cry about so much but dont wanna take a dang week off to stop some of this shit that is going especially hauling cheap freight
They have also been kicking around the idea of turning 65 into a toll road because in their reasoning “out of state drivers use our roads without fueling up so they aren’t paying a fuel tax”, just another BS tax from the party that promises less taxes.
That’s total b.s. that’s what IFTA’s for, it decides fuel tax amount all states you drive in.
That’s total b.s. that’s what IFTA’s for, it devides fuel tax amount all states you drive in.
Indiana is plagued with being in the middle of everything yet receiving the benefit of none of it. I could mention that I remember when it was just $12.80 to run the ITR. I could mention that oft repeated line “Taxation is Theft”. This borders on extortion.
US 30 is going to see a massive increase in truck traffic, and there’s bound to be more truck vs Amish buggy collisions on US 6. I’m sure someone has the actuarial data on crashes in northern Indiana and Ohio after the last toll increases – I’m pretty sure it’s not an elected official, but someone has it.
I’ll keep running 30 to Valparaiso and jump on there. Or maybe I’ll do my own little protest and run 94 in to Chicago. But then, I’m old school… I use maps and run 2-lane roads with an 18-speed.
Question: How much time off do you take for Christmas?
About 80% of the so called O-O cannot take time off. Park your truck December 19th and don’t touch the road till January 3rd.
The only problem is you will hear “I CAN’T AFFORD THAT MUCH TIME OFF” Can you afford piss poor wages? As an O-O are you averaging to the truck the fuel pump price?
If the answer is no YOU HAUL CHEAP FREIGHT.
ENOUGH.
Exactly! I really wish that truckers would understand the power that they have and USE it to create a better situation for themselves. But no, they just slave on, usually complaining all the while. smh.
Hi Paul, I’m with you already had about 7 weeks vacation this year, 2 weeks left. I go east at times as an O/O this is ine reason of many I prefer not to unless rate is very good. Be safe out there.
That’s just plan ridiculous. How can they use highway money for bike and hiking trails? Also to bring update internet access to rural areas. Bunch of crooks.
Well, they raise the tolls then we must raise our costs of operation.
Do what they did years ago.Don’t use the toll road.they lost around $12million in revenue.I’m not one to pay tolls to pay for projects outside of the toll road.Tolls are used to maintain facilities and infrastructure for these toll road .not to fund projects like the airports and other roadways.Boycott this stretch of interstate.go around it.
And that was just another reason for me not to take loads going to indiana… Ain’t been in 3years most def now not coming back. Good luck with that one governor!!!!
Worst road in the country.
I remember when I first started driving almost 20 years ago you rode the Indiana toll road but you went around the Ohio one now it’s the opposite. And if they think that charging more money to go on that crappy road is going to happen that’s fine but I won’t be the one paying it I’ll go around it like I used to go around Ohio.
Hiking and biking…
Have they looked at their state lately? 90% cornfields. You have some terrain to the south but if you give people beer money and a shovel, I’m sure they can make paths cheaper.
I never really cared for the Indiana toll road. When you compare it to the Ohio turnpike, it makes it look like the Pennsylvania turnpike. The whole point of a paid road is that the privately owned paid road is supposed to be in better shape than the public road system. Look at the Florida turnpike, they have some really nice innovations there.
However US30 is mostly multi-lane, but you’d have to jump on in Toledo, go through Ft Wayne and come back up to get to Chicago. US6 is a shorter alternative but that’s mostly single lane.
I won’t go through IN. anymore, that pit is full of low life scum they think we have to take the high road? Yah their high all right, too high….dumb & dumber is their motto.
$90 million in bike and hiking paths… Really?😡😡 All the money that was spent in South Bend to make bike Lanes on main streets and bike paths, you rarely see anyone one them.😡😡 What a joke!! Why not spend more money on hiring more police to keep our streets safer, hey there’s an idea!🤔🤔
Governor of Indiana just trying to cover all mess they have on I69 because company who supposedly has deal on I69 left and fall in bankruptcy in Spain way Indiana government give yob to Spanish company at all its out of my mind like USA don’t have good road building company now Indiana government try to scramble each penny from tax payers drivers and etc. Funy thing is governor call all this construction mess Next step. He even want to make I465 round Indy toll road.
Bike paths. Carpool lanes. International flights into Indy (so the terrorists can get there easier?) See the problem? Trucks are a deep pocket for their crappy, feel-good projects.
East part of Indiana turnpike looks like after bombing , and now we have to pay more to broke our equipment. I think all this money will goes is some pocket
What else does Indiana have as far as industry is concerned for tax purposes? So the government has to depend on the trucking industry to finance its social programs.
Ok,so not a dime, even a penny of the rate hike is for repairs of the tollway? What’s wrong with this picture? Michigan DOT and Mackinac Bridge Authority butted heads with using the bridge tolls for Michigan roads etc..Mackinac Bridge Authority stood it’s ground using the tolls for the bridge only because taking those away would mean the bridge maintenance would suffer. Indiana should get funds for roads from the ALREADY enforced DOT tax on fuel for Commercial trucks, which raised fuel prices significantly!!!
Then let all the consumers pay more like us truckers!!!! Better yet FIX THE F-ING ROAD BEFORE RAISING THE PRICE FOR USING IT
wait till RI tolls go up all over the state. They are only in one area now nad I don’t hear about any drivers by passing them .
edit me to read and not nad .
Yep. Once again it’s time for truck drivers to stop spending any money in indiana..no tolls,no fuel,no food…these people need to realize how much passing through truck drivers already add to their states revenue
It won’t be me funding this extortion tax. I parked my trucks and went into another line of work. Couldn’t be happier.
Me too ..gone ..
Like truckers are going to use bike trails and hiking trails! They can keep their state! This driver staying out!
I just don’t understand if Indiana toll road is privately owned how governor can hike price for Semi truck or that matter any vehicle who use tolls.Are we turning in Russia or what.
Illegal, just like RIs trucks-only toll
Indiana’ fuel prices are higher than IL and OH, so I wait to fuel up once I’m out of IN. Same concept goes for the tollway, I go around it. The only people I’ve ever seen on the tollway were day cabs and company drivers (who aren’t personally affected by the cost). Pretty soon, companies will start making their drivers pay for tolls, just to keep their bottom line down, right?
Seriously .. their needs to be an organized volunteer truckers union ..that can call for a national boycott of individual states and companies that screw with the truckers .. imagine if our nations truckers took a week off ..nation wide .. maybe we’d get someone’s attention ..
Wish it was possible. Any idea how to do it
Do some homework it happened in 1974 I think .. it was the foundation of 00IDA I don’t know exactly how long the strike lasted but they got the governments attention in 24 hours …all the truckers shut down in the middle of the interstate highways, protesting hi fuel prices and low wages . I’m with you …but 48 hours things would be changing if everybody would ban together. In two days gas stations would be out of gas there would be no cigarettes on the shelf there be no food on the store shelves things would go to hell fast.
Not sure if its true or not, but i heard somewhere that truckers could be charged with domestic terrorism under the patriot act for doing that.
Hey I have an idea for you Governor Holcomb, make the bike riders pay for their bike trails, if they aren’t good enough, or maybe tax the bikes when they are sold just like you tax cars and trucks. Make them pay a yearly registration or users fee, you know something that makes sense.
That trailer is nothing but a big cash box running down the road and everyone wants a piece of it. Something’s never change for the benefit of driver’s.
It’s ALL about PARASITIC, LYING, THIEVING, CHEATING, CORRUPT, GREEDY POLITICIANS using the trucking industry like some kind of rolling ATM!! If ALL U.S. TRUCKERS parked their rigs for 6 consecutive days the disruption in the U.S.economy would be felt worldwide!! But, like everything else in our society if it doesn’t directly affect someone “it’s out of sight, out of mind!!” Yet, you’ll pay higher mark-up prices for goods & services & say “Oh Well!!” GET IT TOGETHER TRUCKERS!!💯🇺🇸😎💰
Thats what happens when you vote for rich thugs
I thought the toll money was to take care of the toll road. I don’t travel anymore than I have to I prefer the side roads …less congestion even though 20 is getting rough. It beats sitting in traffic on some of their ten year construction projects. Safe to say you won’t see me on again .
We can end this fast. pile up on the secondaries near the turnpike. Their screaming will put an end to this stupidity.
To just target one set of drivers instead of all users is just BS. But who cares about the truckers? Nobody. This is just another of the many big taxes trucks have to pay. Some companies will stop allowing them to be on toll roads so now they’ll tear up your secondary roads.
Why don’t you tax blacks more since they commit more crime?
Or how about taxing child-bearing age women more tax because they pop out babies that cost taxpayers more.
Or even better, add more taxes to people who have children since those darn schools are so expensive.
Maybe we should tax Hispanics more for all the costs we incur with their people coming across the border.
Agree!!
And none of the money will actually do what is promised. The roads will be shit 5 years from now.
35% more cost to have my damned truck shaken and jarred to pieces and aggrivated by the steady thump thump thump. Screw that. Ill stay down on 40 30 20 & 10.
Stop voting for idiots you fools
Good lord!! Never knew how illiterate truck drivers are until I read the comments. Better keep on trucking! Not one comment without at least five misspelled words?huhuhuhu hope your math is better than your spelling otherwise a toll road increase will be the least of your money problems. “Eyes caints even spell toal rowed,butts ims is mad about it”!
I notice some drivers are saying we just need to stop using the Toll Roads . I personally avoid them as much as possible but here’s I point I made years ago and now that REAL world experience can back it . ” Part of the reason for ELD mandate was to simply force trucks onto the interstates and toll roads because even though we can avoid a lot of crap by staying off them we need paperlogs to complete the same MILAGE. ” .
They want to turn more interstates into toll roads but it was obvious that before doing so they needed to get more trucks onto them to generate the need for tolls . Same with California … I use the interstate as little as possible because I actually make more time ,money and travel the 55 mph speed limit instead of sitting , losing money and averaging 30 mph .
Don’t think their already planning on changing the legal truck routing there 🤔
$ 90 million for hiking and biking trails..? Are you kidding me..? How about using that raise teachers pay..? Governor Holcomb is an idiot
That’s called govt greed that will never stop ,they could stop the rape of drivers but they know it will be passed on to customers of the freight
When I first started going across the price was 12.80 I don’t mind taking hgy 12 20 or 30.its better anyway
Good ole days 12.80
FIX the damn toll road first you MORONS, I’m tired of paying you idiots to smash and rattle MY truck apart.
I run US 30 through OH and IN. Saves $84 now. Will save $100 with the increase. Takes less than an hour extra.
I you ya hwat. Them indianans tail piped my grandma! Now they’re gonna raise tolls on my rig? Damn neighbor stole my dirt too. Shit I say ALL trucks boycott the entire state of Indians! Haha Redneck boots and boogie with my shotgun and my rifle and my dip too!
Sounds like a discrimination lawsuit is called for.
AAAAAnd thats why I take alternate routes every chance I get. I usually go weeks without any tolls.
When OOIDA wins the lawsuit in Pennsylvania, Indiana will be next with presidence set. They are suing PA because toll money is being used for state projects which is against Federal law.
US 20 ,US 30 ,IN 2 are looking good now. Boycott The I80 toll road.
Why is it just the big trucks, that’s gonna suck when we stop using it. Then whatcha gonna do.
So let me get this straight… A privately-owned company can OWN a public road and charge a “toll” for people to drive on and then this private company can “donate” $1,000,000,000 to the state government to get a toll rate increase “approved”. All that while having no real maintenance standards or obligations. No public records oversight. No government oversight. LMAO I’m pretty much speechless. One question though, if it’s a private company and not part of any government… what would happen if we didn’t pay the toll? Could they really do anything legally except maybe sue for the balance owed?
Truckers should boycott states like this. It sounds like they are doing the same thing that NJ’NY’&PA are doing it’s a bunch of crap. I call it legal robbery these people should be jailed.
It’s so easy to get around it. Trucker should just make sure that it cost them more money than what they think they’re going to make and also don’t buy anything in Indiana they don’t know how much truckers contribute to their economy well I think they need to find out
I have been avoiding indiana toll for yrs now. Like you ppl said, the road conditions are terrible. Plus we gotta pay for it. No one ask us how much money we have to pay for alignment on 18 wheelers caused by bad road condition. You expect to have nice ride without driving 45 – 55 mph trough construction zones for your money. Yet, we been paying toll roads all around the country trough constant construction zones for miles and miles. Will that ever stop? Look at the OH toll….50 mph limit trough out of year, and we have to pay for it. Basically, you dont get what you paid for! Its robbery! Another thing no one mentioned is that indiana toll is privately owned by some association group from New Zealand.
Capitalism is awesome…
Would this move in raising the tolls only on trucks be classified as discrimination? It picks on one segment of vehicles only using the toll road to increase revenue.
I don’t go to Indiana- problem solved
Pence leaves and welfare moves in!!!! I agree with Felicia , worst roads it is not that the toll road is runny a private contractor. It has created jobs but somebody has already embezzled it . Chech the book find good attorney. The only reason they are making this about thre trucks is they have to find deep pockets to square things with.loopp I have gotten 5 quetes stating the 50M gesture to fix these disgusting roads is not nearly enough. it the fact it
They just got done increasing the tolls with a 100% increase this year and now raising it 50% more. Total greed! Boycott Indiana.
I work for a trucking company in Indiana. We had two choices for governor in this last election: Stupid and More Stupid. We chose Stupid.
I’m afraid that’s the best that we could do.
Hiking and biking trails, more flights to the airport. What the hell. This is illegal. Toll money is supposed to be used to pay for the toll roads. When are we going to get relief from illegal taxation. Truckers should not have to pay for hiking and biking trails.
One more reason to avoid Indiana toll road.
I have never used the Indiana toll road at any point in my career. US-20 works just fine.
Taking lessons from Illinois government.
It appears the toll is to fund hiking and bike trails. Also internet and improvements to US 20 and few other roads. I will take US 20 and the other roads . They certainly are not investing much in the toll road itself.