Know what a lane costs before you book it.
Pick any two cities. Smart Route maps the lane over real interstate corridors and lays out the cheapest way, the fast toll road, and the toll-free alternative side by side — with every toll facility itemized at 5-axle transponder rates, priced against your own fuel and running cost.
No sign-up, nothing to install. Opens on the laptop in the bunk or the phone at the fuel desk.
| Routing | Miles | Tolls | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toll route (fastest) | 272 | $62 | $454 |
| Toll-free option | 282 | $0 | $407 |
| Alternate corridor | 340 | $0 | $490 |
Tolls are invisible until the bill shows up.
You book the load on rate per mile. Nobody prices the road itself — and by the time the transponder statement arrives, the margin is already spent.
Chicago to Detroit runs free on I-94 or $62 across the Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road. Same freight, same day, different money.
Every free consumer map prices a passenger car. A 5-axle Class 8 pays several times that, and no free national source publishes the truck rate.
Per-axle toll routing is sold by the seat, priced for carriers with a toll department. That's not most of the trucks on the road.
Three answers, not one opinion.
Smart Route doesn't tell you which road to take. It shows you what each choice costs and lets you decide, because only you know how much the clock is worth on this load.
Cheapest
Weighs miles against tolls using your real running cost per mile. This is the number that settles whether a $37 bridge is worth driving around.
Toll route (fastest)
Shortest distance, tolls included — usually the turnpike. Priced to the dollar, so you can see exactly what the speed is costing you.
Toll-free option
Toll facilities forbidden outright, not merely minimized. For when the answer is "run the free road and eat the extra forty minutes."
Built for the cab, not the boardroom.
Every toll itemized
Not a lump sum. You see Chicago Skyway, Indiana Toll Road, Ohio Turnpike — facility by facility, each at its published 5-axle transponder rate.
Your costs, not averages
Set fuel price, MPG, and driver plus ops cost per mile. Every comparison re-prices instantly against your truck instead of a national average.
See the trade-off
Routes draw on the map with the alternate corridor dashed alongside, so the choice is visual before it's numerical.
Nationwide corridors
102 cities across the lower 48, routed over the interstate network — roughly 2,575 lanes, and nearly all of them return more than one real option.
Copy the summary
One click copies the whole comparison as plain text, ready to paste to your dispatcher, your broker, or your own notes.
Light and dark
A dark mode that doesn't blow out your night vision, and a light one for the daylight at the fuel desk.
Operations that feel every toll.
Large carriers have routing seats and a toll department. If you run one truck — or a handful — the toll bill lands on you personally, and the gap between two corridors is real money on every load you accept.
- Owner-operators running their own authority
- Small fleets without a TMS
- Company drivers checking a lane
- Dispatchers pricing a rate
- Anyone deciding whether to take the load
- Brokers sanity-checking a lane cost
What it is, and what it isn't.
A tool you'd bet a margin on has to be honest about its own edges.
✓ What you can rely on
- Toll figures come from each authority's own published 5-axle transponder rate.
- Corridor mileage is close enough to price a load against.
- The toll-free mode genuinely forbids toll facilities — it isn't just "fewer tolls".
- Your own cost settings drive every number on the screen.
! What to keep in mind
- Route lines connect city nodes — they don't yet hug the physical road.
- Time and congestion aren't modeled. This answers dollars; you judge the clock.
- Toll data is a 2026 snapshot, and a few states are best-published estimates. Check a real toll bill before betting a thin margin on it.
- It's a planning tool, not a routing device. It won't clear your bridges for you.
Where this is going.
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Live now
Corridor routing and toll comparison
The full three-mode comparison across 102 cities, free and open to anyone who needs it.
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Next
True truck-profile road geometry
Replace straight-line corridor segments with real routed roads, so mileage and the drawn line match what the wheels actually do.
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Next
Maintenance tracking for the single truck
Service intervals, repairs and running cost kept in the same place you price your lanes — because maintenance per mile is half of what a lane really costs.
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Planned
Saved settings and saved lanes
Your truck's numbers and the lanes you run most, remembered between visits instead of re-entered every time.
Price your next lane in about ten seconds.
Two dropdowns, and you have the cheapest route, the toll road and the free road side by side.