The American Trucking Associations has been ordered to pay the state of Rhode Island $200,000 after a years-long fight and several different rulings over truck-only tolling.
The years-long back and forth started when the ATA worked with trucking companies to lead a lawsuit against the state of Rhode Island for truck-only tolls along the state’s highways. In 2022, a judge sided with the trucking companies and ruled the truck-only tolls unconstitutional, ordering them to be stopped within 48 hours of the ruling.
“Trucks accounted for 3% or less of the total traffic but were paying 100% of the tolls. And that is clearly not a reasonable allocation or approximation of their usage of these facilities,” said Reginald Goeke, attorney for the American Trucking Association, back in 2022…