New TMC Toll Program

Discussion in 'TMC' started by bs64507, May 30, 2010.

  1. guster2310

    guster2310 Bobtail Member

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    You are allowed to use the Ohio Turnpike if it is a trip more than 600 miles. Other than that we are free to use them. There are ways around the turnpike that aren't too out of route.
     
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  3. nighttrain10

    nighttrain10 Bobtail Member

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    stay on 94 out of chicago and grab 20 it goes east and west pretty much following same route as 80. It has lights and little towns but not that much longer
     
  4. cplmac2

    cplmac2 Heavy Load Member

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    It has 39 lights in IN alone.
     
  5. HoosierHunter

    HoosierHunter Light Load Member

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    US 30 is a better route if you want to stay off the green stamp.
     
  6. phroziac

    phroziac Road Train Member

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    Why would you count them?

    And thats all? I think you're missing a couple of zeros off that number! It sure felt like 39000000 to me driving through there.

    I've driven that route a few times though, its not bad and its not confusing to stay on the route like some backroads are. However, I almost killed a dumb 4 wheeler once on US20 in indiana! Nowhere near a stop light either. It was on that nice stretch of freeway in western indiana, and the guy missed an exit...did a uturn and drove the wrong way to get back to the exit, and got close enough to me that it was impossible to stop...however, he made it just in time after i started blowing my air horn...
     
  7. cplmac2

    cplmac2 Heavy Load Member

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    My mistake, I meant US30. I counted the lights my first time through because it was night and I was bored. That number is driving from west to east starting in Merrillville.
     
  8. sewerman

    sewerman Road Train Member

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    Just 2 hours longer. on a good day.
     
  9. phroziac

    phroziac Road Train Member

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    Here's the problem. I don't pay for tolls and I don't get paid for wasting those two hours. Since I have an electronic log, I will go the fastest possible route, even if it is out of route or a toll road... Another example is the goat trail from Milton PA to Buffalo NY. I run 390 to 90 just like the big sign says....its a little faster...
     
  10. milskired

    milskired Road Train Member

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    I use to be routed along US 30 instead of the IN and OH tollroad. Talk about a PITA!!! I hate that route and it takes a lot longer that way.
     
  11. HoosierHunter

    HoosierHunter Light Load Member

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    No way there are 39 lights between Merrillville and Ft Wayne and if you use your head you can avoid Merrillville. Once you get past the Fort it is Clear sailing to Mansfield. Good truck stop in Grovertown also a real TS not a travel center. You younguns get in way to big a hurry.
     
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