For Dutch logistics service providers and transport companies, July 1, 2026, marks one of the biggest operational changes in years. With the introduction of the toll-charge, almost all domestic and foreign trucks over 3.5 tons will start paying per kilometer driven on Dutch highways and some specific N roads.
With average rates around €0.20 per kilometer, a single truck traveling 100,000 kilometers annually could face some €20,000 in new toll charges.
For management, this is more than just a tax on miles driven. In fact, it is a complete extra administrative task with a direct threat to profit margins. If you cannot accurately track, allocate and pass on these costs to customers, your margins might go up in smoke.
But there is also good news: with the right data strategy, the truck levy need not be a financial drain. Instead, it can become a competitive advantage.
Why can't the internal Finance team solve this quickly in a spreadsheet? Because calculating the true impact of the truck levy requires bringing together both structured and unstructured data from various internal and external sources.
To understand the exact cost per trip, your systems must combine the following data sources, among others:
Manually matching these data sources most likely leads to delayed invoicing, human error and margin losses, with your company paying the charge but not passing it on (in full) to the customer.
As data specialists, we help transportation companies turn operational data into clear, profitable decisions. We build a robust data platform that fully automates truckload tracking and optimization. To do this, we apply a modern data stack with a number of well-known tools: 'Snowflake', 'dbt', and 'Tableau' or 'Sigma'. In addition, we offer various data products including access to all RDW data ready for you in your own Snowflake environment.
Instead of burdening your financial administration with manually matching GPS logs with OBU invoices or order data, we bring all data together in Snowflake. This central data ecosystem acts as the "single version of truth". It automatically loads your live fleet data, invoice files and also our public RDW tables so they are immediately ready for processing and analysis.
The truck levy has complex rules. Consider the temporary discount of 22.3%, the different CO2 emission classes and the variation in vehicle types. We use dbt (Data Build Tool) to instantly create appropriate building blocks from all this information that connect to various business processes. As soon as the government changes a tariff or adjusts a CO2 class, we update that logic in one central place in the background. Without a single manual calculation.
Raw data is worthless if different business stakeholders such as planners or sales cannot work with it directly. We build intuitive dashboards or analyses in Tableau or Sigma that give management and operational teams back full control.