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American Trucking Associations is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to reject an application by the Commonwealth of Virginia to toll I-95.

Tolling the interstate will be bad for trucking companies and consumers who will bear the increased transportation costs, ATA said in a statement Tuesday.

“I firmly believe that the best way to fund our roads and bridges is through the fuel tax��—��which directs nearly 99 cents of every dollar collected back into the asphalt, steel and concrete��—��and not tolls,” said ATA President Bill Graves.

“Under VDOT’s plan, in the first six years the Commonwealth would spend $95 million just to be able to collect your tax dollars and that is just wrong,” he said in a statement.