Truck Toll Introduced: From Mandatory Toll Boxes to Better Control Over Your Transportation Costs

The truck toll has been in effect in the Netherlands since July 1, 2026. Owners of Dutch and foreign trucks in vehicle categories N2 and N3 will now pay per kilometer driven. This requires not only a properly functioning toll box but also insight into what the toll actually means for your trips, rates, and profitability.

Rietveld helps transportation companies tackle both of these challenges. Together with partners such as EasyTrip, Davisi, and Bricklog , we ensure proper installation in the vehicle, reliable data, and concrete insights that allow you to adjust your business operations.

What does the truck toll entail?

The truck toll applies to trucks with a maximum gross vehicle weight exceeding 3,500 kilograms. The toll is charged on virtually all Dutch highways and a number of provincial and municipal roads.

The amount per kilometer depends, among other things, on:

• the maximum technically permissible mass of the vehicle or combination;
• the CO₂ emission class;
• the Euro emission class;
• the number of kilometers driven on toll roads.

The average rate in 2026 will be €0.191 per kilometer, but the actual amount can vary significantly depending on the vehicle and shipment. The Eurovignette was phased out with the introduction of the truck toll in the Netherlands.

A toll box is required

To pay the truck toll, a contract must be entered into with an authorized service provider for each vehicle subject to the toll. In addition, the vehicle must be equipped with a properly functioning toll box, also known as an On-Board Unit (OBU).

The toll device automatically records where the vehicle is traveling and ensures that the toll due is processed through the selected service provider. Without a functioning toll device, the vehicle is not permitted on the road. This also applies when you are driving only on roads where no truck toll is charged.

EasyTrip and Rietveld: Quick and Professional Installation

To provide practical support to customers during the implementation of the truck toll, Rietveld has partnered with EasyTrip Transport Services, among others. EasyTrip handles the application and delivery of the Telepass toll boxes. Rietveld ensures professional installation in the vehicle.

Our installers are knowledgeable about trucks, vehicle systems, and onboard electronics. This enables them to install the toll devices quickly and carefully, with minimal downtime for your fleet. Especially for larger fleets, proper planning helps ensure that all vehicles are equipped in a timely and efficient manner.

Did you receive the Telepass SAT K1 toll box via EasyTrip? If so, Rietveld can handle the installation for you.

From a per-kilometer rate to actual transportation costs

An average rate per kilometer provides only a rough estimate. The actual impact on your transportation costs is determined by your vehicles, routes, load, scheduling, and the number of kilometers driven.

Many transport operators initially calculated the truck toll based on an average rate per kilometer. In practice, the monthly amount may turn out differently. This raises important questions:

• Which trips still yield a sufficient return?
• Have the costs been fully and correctly passed on to customers?
• Which routes or transport combinations can be planned more efficiently?
• Where do discrepancies arise between preliminary and final calculations?
• What does the toll amount mean per customer, vehicle, route, or order?

A summary invoice alone doesn’t always provide sufficient answers to these questions. To do so, toll registration must be combined with reliable trip and vehicle data.

Quick Calculations with Davisi

Do you want to quickly find out what the truck toll actually means for your shipments? We collaborate with data partners such as Davisi, among others.

Rietveld extracts the necessary trip and vehicle data from EasyTrack and ensures that this data is available in a complete, reliable, and exportable format. Davisi combines and visualizes this data, translating it into easy-to-understand reports.

This gives you insight into the costs, for example:

• per vehicle;
• per trip or shipment;
• per customer;
• per route;
• per kilometer driven.

This allows you to compare previous assumptions with actual costs and better justify your rates or surcharges. It also makes it easier to see which trips are still profitable and where adjustments to the schedule are needed.

Have you noticed since July 1 that your previous assumptions about mileage costs do not match actual costs? With the right data integration, we can quickly provide insight into the impact.

Greater returns through in-depth analyses with Bricklog

Do you want to look beyond just the costs of the truck toll? For more comprehensive data analyses, we collaborate with Bricklog, a specialist in data-driven profitability improvement for transportation and logistics.

Rietveld ensures that vehicle, trip, and operational data from our solutions is made available for integration into Bricklog’s systems. Bricklog combines this information with other business data, such as scheduling, revenue, cost prices, and pre- and post-calculations.

This provides broader insight into, among other things:

• profitability per customer, trip, vehicle, or route;
• differences between preliminary calculations and actual results;
• empty kilometers and inefficient vehicle movements;
• opportunities to combine shipments more intelligently;
• cost trends and variances;
• the impact of the truck toll on margins.

Based on these analyses, Bricklog can advise and support transport companies in focusing on cost savings and higher returns. In this way, vehicle data is used not only for record-keeping but, above all, as a basis for better decisions.

One partner for installation, data, and insights

The truck toll affects various parts of your organization. The toll box must function correctly, the recorded kilometers must be reliable, and the costs must be incorporated into calculations, rates, and management information.

Rietveld connects these elements:

1. Recording – EasyTrip supplies the toll box, and Rietveld handles the installation.
2. Access – Rietveld makes reliable trip and vehicle data available.
3. Calculate – Davisi quickly and clearly illustrates the impact of the truck toll.
4. Optimization – Bricklog uses integrated data for in-depth analyses and to improve profitability.

By combining technology, data, and specialized knowledge, we help you do more than just meet regulatory requirements. Together, we ensure that you maintain control over costs and can make data-driven decisions to build a future-proof transportation organization.

Need help with installation or cost allocation?

Would you like to have a Telepass toll box installed, calculate the truck toll per shipment, or use your data for more comprehensive profitability analyses? Our specialists would be happy to discuss which approach best suits your fleet and information needs.

Together, we’ll ensure your vehicles are well-prepared and that you know the true cost of every kilometer driven.

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