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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by NightCrawler</i> <br /><br />just what we need....more tolls. <br /> <br />the Pennsylvania turnpike just went up over 40%, the Kansas turnpike went up about 20% and now Illinois wants to increase their tolls too. <br /> <br />the funny thing is, the governor of Ohio is calling for lowering the truck tolls and increasing the truck speed limit on the Ohio turnpike due to all the trucks taking highway 20 and 30 to avoid all the tolls. all the people in the small towns are complaning about the increased truck traffic. the turnpike comission has agreed to increase the truck speed limit to 65, but no word yet on the lowered tolls. <br /> <br />the Governor of Illinois knows absolutely nothing about trucks. for the past 2 years the state legislature has passed bills to do away with the split speed limits, that study after study has proved are unsafe. he has vetoed them both times. he keeps quoting the same old tired line that a truck traveling faster would cause more damage in a wreck. hello! if all the traffic is moving at the same speed there are FAR fewer wrecks! <br /> <br />then he goes and increases the taxes on trucks and trucking companies, causing hundreds of trucking companies and thousands of trucking jobs to leave the state. <br /> <br />i dont know what this guy has against trucks, but i think it's time he was removed before he destroys the economy of a state that is very dependent on trucks. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Highways 20 and 30 are actually a bit faster than the toll road. I used to run it virtually all the time. It is quiet, little towns and usually good traffic meaning little or no problems. On the toll road you had to worry about a wide variety of things. The 55 mph being the first thing. IF Im paying good money to go 55 then Ill get on 20 and 30 Thank you. Usually companies have to reconcile the tickets of the tolls with the logbooks and sometimes it gets expensive when you just sent 300 trucks thru Ohio from the west coast for the eastern markets.
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