Toll Gates
Toll Gates are facilities found on some roads featured in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator.
Summary
As suggested by the name, these facilities charge truckers for using the roads they are placed on. Roads controlled by toll gates are called toll roads.
Toll gates can be divided into two types according to their charging methods:
- Single toll gates collect one-time charge from truckers passing through them.
- Ticketed toll gates work in pairs or multiple, and usually control a network of interconnected toll roads. Truckers "collect a ticket" when they enter the tolled network through a toll gate, and pay when they exit the network through another. The charge is calculated based on the distance travelled.
Evolution
Earlier truck simulator games did not feature toll gates, although other facilities like ferries did force truckers to pay in order to access another location.
Toll gates are first introduced in Euro Truck Simulator 2, mainly in France, Italy and Poland. Originally, all toll gates required truckers to come to a full stop in order to take a ticket or proceed to payment – trying to rush through the toll gate would end up in ramming an invisible wall. In addition, almost all toll gates have and enforce reduced speed limit upon approach.
The Scandinavia DLC introduced toll gates equipped with electronic toll collection (ETC) lanes, that allow to keep one's vehicle in motion while passing through, by totally removing the barrier. Toll gates introduced in later DLCs – Vive la France!, Italia, Beyond the Baltic Sea and Road to the Black Sea – do use barriers on the electronic lanes as well, allowing vehicles to pass only at a reduced speed.
American Truck Simulator features a few "single" toll gates, most of them situated near San Francisco. They are the only toll gates that allow truckers to pass through while they are still open after the vehicle before has left. In this case the gates act like "electronic" toll gates. There are also some smaller toll gates scattered around the map. They are mostly located in national parks but are restricted to commercial vehicles. There are five toll gates in the base game and counting map expansions (one in Oregon, one in Colorado, ten in Kansas, two in Montana, ten in Oklahoma, and two in Wyoming) for a total of 31 so far.
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