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OOIDA to fight excessive PA<br />
turnpike tolls in court<br />
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers<br />
Association has filed a class-action lawsuit<br />
against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission<br />
for excessive toll increases that place an<br />
undue burden on interstate commerce while<br />
improperly diverting toll revenue to other<br />
projects unrelated to the turnpike.<br />
payments, prevent PennDOT from the spending<br />
the money it received from the turnpike, and to<br />
refund the money to turnpike users.<br />
“The tolls charged far exceed the value of the<br />
use of turnpike and the costs to maintain it,”<br />
said Todd Spencer, acting president and CEO of<br />
OOIDA. “Truckers have especially overpaid the<br />
price at as much as 70 cents per mile.”<br />
The lawsuit was filed in the Middle District<br />
of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg and says<br />
OOIDA and the National Motorists<br />
Association have requested an injunction to halt<br />
the turnpike from overcharging customers to<br />
pay for non-turnpike projects, stop the turnpike<br />
from borrowing money to help make PennDOT<br />
that federal interstate commerce laws for the<br />
turnpike hold that tolls can only be used to<br />
maintain or expand the 359-mile highway for<br />
which the tolls are levied.<br />
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