Avoid the Dutch truck charge smartly

How Avoid road charges smartly works

• Standard route: the fastest route for a truck.
• Less motorway, much less motorway and as little motorway as possible: three routes that avoid the motorway more and more, with the same restrictions and closures.

For each route Tolmijden calculates the charge, the driving time and the energy. The route with the lowest total cost gets the advice. You see it in one line: "Advice: avoid charges" with the difference in money and time, or instead "Advice: standard route".

What is it calculated with?

• Cost per hour for driver and vehicle together, € 40 by default.
• Consumption, by default 30 litres per 100 km, or 130 kWh per 100 km for electric.
• Diesel price: the average from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), or your own price.
• Driving time with a truck speed of at most 80 km/h.

All amounts excluding VAT. You can adjust the values yourself.

When does it usually not pay?

A small saving on the charge often does not outweigh extra minutes: at € 40 per hour each extra minute already costs about € 0.67. That is why Tolmijden only shows the comparison opened when avoiding the charge really is the advice; otherwise the standard route stays selected.

What is not included

Tolmijden does not include driving and rest times, waiting times, stop time per stop or ferry costs.

Read also

• Avoiding motorways with a truck in the Netherlands: Plan a truck route without or with less motorway, with the right height, weight and length. See straight away what it saves in charges, time and cost.
• Avoiding tolls in the Netherlands: With a truck in the Netherlands you pay the Dutch truck charge and tolls in the Westerschelde and Kil tunnels. How to plan a route with less toll.
• Calculating transport costs per trip: Calculate the cost of a truck trip: Dutch truck charge, tunnel toll, driving time at an hourly rate and fuel or electricity, compared per route.
• Roads with the Dutch truck charge: The Dutch truck charge applies on almost all motorways and on some provincial and municipal roads: 7,954.94 km. View the charged network on the map.