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MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Russia plans to charge foreign trucks a toll starting in 2005, Mosnews.com reports.
Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin said his agency is preparing proposals on how to implement the toll, and will submit them for consideration before the end of 2004.
"Today all states except Russia collect money for the entrance of foreign automobiles and trucks into the country," Levitin told Russian news service Itar-Tass.
The European Union charges a toll of $20-$50 depending on the truck's weight capacity.
"In this situation we have only two choices: to introduce similar tolls or to ask all other countries not to collect money from Russian transporters," the minister told Itar-Tass. "I believe that we have to choose the first option."
Levitin said currently most Russian roads only accommodate weight loads of up to 10 tons, while many large trucks' weight loads may reach as much as 40 tons. He said revenue from the tolls would be used for new road construction and repair of old roads.
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