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On January 5, 2025, New York launched the Central Business District Tolling Program — congestion pricing — charging vehicles a toll to enter Manhattan at or below 60th Street. The zone covers the densest, most delivery-heavy part of the city, which is exactly where most commercial freight needs to go.
The detail that matters for delivery is the one most people miss: cars pay the toll once a day, but trucks and buses are charged every time they enter the zone. There is no daily cap for commercial vehicles. A van that makes three trips into the zone in a day pays three times. That single rule reshapes how a courier has to plan routes through Manhattan.
During peak hours — weekdays 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. — the E-ZPass tolls run roughly $9 for cars and small commercial vans, about $14.40 for single-unit trucks, and about $21.60 for multi-unit trucks. Overnight, those tolls drop by 75 percent: roughly $2.25 for a car or small van, $3.60 for a single-unit truck, and $5.40 for a multi-unit truck.
Because the charge repeats on every entry for trucks, a delivery operation that batches poorly — one stop, exit the zone, re-enter for the next — stacks tolls fast. The way to control it is to consolidate stops inside the zone into a single trip, and to push what can wait into the discounted overnight window. A multi-stop run planned around the zone boundary pays the toll once and serves a dozen drop-offs; a sloppy schedule pays it over and over.
For businesses inside the zone, the toll is showing up as a line item or a small surcharge from carriers, and it is being felt most by the restaurants and retailers that depend on frequent resupply. Knowing the structure is the first step to not overpaying it.
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Xentra Transport plans Manhattan routes around the congestion zone rather than pretending it is not there. That means consolidating multiple drops into a single zone entry, timing non-urgent deliveries into the cheaper overnight window when the toll falls 75 percent, and staging from outside the zone so a vehicle is not crossing the boundary more than it has to. The toll is real, but how many times you pay it is a routing decision, not a fixed cost.
If your deliveries can shift to off-peak or overnight, our overnight courier service takes direct advantage of the discounted window. For everything else, we build the route so the zone is crossed as few times as the job allows. Call 877-709-2711 and tell us your stops; we will plan it to minimize the toll exposure.
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