While it may not be the highest expense item on trucking companies’ financial reports, toll fees make a decent-size dent in their bottom lines.
Toll charges continue to rise, and costly, inaccurate violations are not uncommon. That’s why weigh station bypass network operator Drivewyze has teamed up with toll payment and management services provider Bestpass to address fleet and driver pain points with tolling.
The two have collaborated to roll out a new tool for the industry: a toll trip report with highly accurate GPS-based toll event data, available at no cost to any trucking company through the Drivewyze platform.
Bestpass provides a payment platform and nationwide toll management for commercial fleets at over 50 tolling authorities across the U.S., servicing about 15,000 fleets and 30,000 customers and processing over 130,000 toll transactions a year or $1.5 billion in toll payments per year. Drivewyze offers PreClear weigh station bypass services at more than 840 sites in 45 states and provinces, and its Safety+ feature provides in-cab toll road notifications. Its platform is embedded with over 100 partners in telematics and electronic logging devices with a network of almost 3 million trucks.
Drivewyze CEO Brian Heath said the core of that technology is GPS-based – a different technology base than transponders, which tolling has traditionally used, often resulting in overcharges, false violations and even fraud.
“The ability to challenge those based on just the transponder data is limited,” Heath said. “We thought we could leverage the Drivewyze platform; we could collaborate with Bestpass to create an independent source of truth with highly accurate GPS data, so we know the moment a truck passes by or through a toll gate or gantry, and that could be an entrance and an exit event.”
With that data, fleets can reference the report to confirm the vehicle was actually there, what time it was there, and where it entered and exited that toll road.
