TxDOT Toll Exemption Policy

In the interest of public safety, law enforcement, and emergency vehicles—as defined in Transportation Code, §541.201—are toll-exempt on TxDOT toll roads.

Those vehicles include the following:

• Fire department and police vehicles, public or private ambulances, municipal department or public service corporation emergency vehicles, private vehicles of volunteer firefighters, or certified EMS employees or volunteers when responding to an emergency.
• Industrial emergency response vehicles when responding to an emergency.
• Vehicles of blood or tissue banks when making deliveries of blood, drugs, medicines or organs.

TxDOT contractors working on the construction, improvement, maintenance or operation of the toll project or system being traveled are also toll-exempt.

Marked, recognizable military vehicles are toll-exempt, except on the Central Texas Turnpike System where such vehicles may receive free passage only during time of war or other emergency.

Any vehicle in the time of a declared emergency or natural disaster will also be toll-exempt to facilitate mass evacuations.

For more information regarding TxDOT’s toll exemption policies, see Texas Transportation Commission Minute Order 110911, dated April 26, 2007.

Toll exemption policies may differ on toll roads managed by other toll agencies.

For information about other tolling agencies in Texas and if they have toll exemption policies, please visit the following websites:

Austin: Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority

Brownsville: Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority

Dallas/Fort Worth: North Texas Tollway Authority

Houston area: Harris County Toll Road Authority and Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority

Tyler area: North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority