Maine to Raise Turnpike Tolls for Trucks to 15.2 Cents per Mile

August 6, 2004 6:00 AM, EDT

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ruck drivers using the Maine Turnpike will begin paying much more next year to travel on one of the state’s major thoroughfares.

The Maine Turnpike Authority voted unanimously July 23 to boost tolls next February to raise an additional $13.5 million a year for improvements on the 109-mile toll road.

For commercial trucks, the toll rate will increase an average of 79%, to 15.2 cents a mile from 8.5 cents a mile, MTA spokesman Bruce Peltier told Transport Topics.

“These are extremely significant increases as far as I’m concerned,” Dale Hanington, president of the Maine Motor Transport Association, told TT.

It’s a rational increase. It’s not one that has gone hog wild,” Turnpike Authority Chairman Gerald Conley Sr. said after the vote.

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