Op-Ed: A ‘Thruway’ fee Long Island never asked for

Op-Ed: A ‘Thruway’ fee Long Island never asked for

Long Island truckers don’t drive on the New York State Thruway every day. But under a new surcharge quietly proposed by the Thruway Authority, they’re about to start paying for it anyway. If there is one thing truckers know, it is this: when government adds arbitrary new costs to freight movement, those costs never stay in the trucking industry. They spread to the businesses that depend on us and, ultimately, to the families who buy the goods we…