Separate systems for turnpike tolls
By Jonathan Small
Is it too much to expect that everyone who drives on an Oklahoma toll road should be expected to pay? Sadly, that is not occurring today.
Due to flaws in existing state-tribal compacts, and a willful lack of enforcement mechanisms, individuals driving with tribal car tags are often able to evade payment of turnpike tolls.
Because information on tribal tags, such as the home address of the car owner, is not always provided to the state, many individuals with tribal tags now simply drive down state toll roads without paying. The millions gifted to those unregistered tags is then shifted onto the fees paid by all other, non-Indian drivers.
