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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it will completely exempt route buses and late-night freight cars from the 16th of this month to ease the management burden on the transportation industry due to high oil prices and stabilize prices for people's livelihoods.
The decision is a follow-up to the emergency economic inspection meeting held at the end of March, which will be implemented through the burden participation of the Korea Expressway Corporation, and the private highway section will be excluded from the exemption.In the case of route buses, the full toll will be exempted for high-pass vehicles entering and leaving the financial highway toll booth from 00:00 on April 16 to 24:00 on May 15. The exemption method is operated as a post-settlement method in which the normal billing details are settled for a month at the time of use and then refunded through a later application.
Late-night freight cars and business construction machinery will be exempted from tolls from 21:00 on April 16 to 21:00 on May 16. The late-night toll reduction rate, which was previously 30-50%, will be expanded to 100%, and vehicles passing through toll booths between 23:00 and 05:00 will be eligible for the closed section if the driving rate is more than 20% between 21:00 and 06:00. In order to receive an exemption, a terminal that has registered a late-night discount reduction must be equipped, and trucks with less than three axes must use high-pass, but large trucks with more than four types can also benefit from using regular lanes.
The exemption process varies depending on the section of use, and tolls are immediately exempted when passing through the toll booth on the financial expressway. However, if you enter from the financial highway and go out to the private highway, you will first pay the normal payment and then the post-settlement will be made from June 16. When paying by card, the payment is deducted from the amount used afterwards, and when paying by cash, you must visit the sales office and receive a direct refund.
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