Haulers want brakes put on rising truck fees

Cybergal · Nov 5, 2008

Haulers want brakes put on rising truck fees

11/5/08

Trucking firms, agriculture interests, and the City of Toledo have joined to protest a large statewide fee increase by the Ohio Department of Transportation that they say will kill local jobs.

Jeffery Wingate, president of the Toledo Trucking Association, said he was shocked to learn via email that overweight and oversized truck permits from the state were increased on Oct. 16 from $55 a year to $800 a year. Mr. Wingate spoke yesterday during a press conference in the office of Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

The fee for oversized and overweight trucks will increase again on March 1 to $1,400 a year, and on July 1 to $2,000 a year . That makes a 3,536 percent increase in just nine months.

"I think it was snuck through, without any input from northwest Ohio and with no consideration as to what it would do to our economy," said Mr. Wingate, president of Wingate Transport, a steel hauler based in Toledo.

The fees disproportionately affect northwest Ohio and the Port of Toledo because weight limits in Michigan are twice those of Ohio, and the majority of trucks bringing bulk goods like grain, cement, and fertilizer from Michigan to Toledo or vice versa would have to pay the increased permit.
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Lilbit · Nov 5, 2008

The government just loves to screw the trucking industry in an effort to make more money.

Truckerjo · Nov 5, 2008

wont happen... under Obama and his plans he has to raise taxes and cost on everybody...

rikdev50s · Nov 5, 2008

It is one thing to raise the oversize and over weight fees to bring them in line, but to impose three more rate hikes in such a short period is just plain stupid... and are the fees really going to be used for road and bridge upkeep and repair? I bet not...

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