PennDOT Secretary Allen Biehler told members of the Pennsylvania House that his department was considering adding a series of tollbooths to Interstate 80 in the state, media sources reported.

Biehler said the tollbooths would be placed every 30 miles along the highway’s roughly 300-mile trek from the Ohio border to the New Jersey border.

PennDOT has been working on a study to determine the benefits and effects of adding tolls to the road; one of the factors examined is the effect of tolls on the trucking industry, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

The state is already the target of truckers’ ire after the Pennsylvania Turnpike announced a plan to increase its tolls.

The current toll for an 80,000-pound, class 8 truck traveling the entire length of the turnpike’s 359-mile main line would increase from $105.55 to $150.75. That amount includes the ticketed section of the road, plus the fee collected at the cash gate at the Ohio border.

Carl DeFebo, a public information manager with the Turnpike Authority, told Land Line the increase would average 42.5 percent for the ticketed section of the turnpike.

Biehler spoke Monday, March 1, before the House Appropriations Committee.