The Trucking Association of New York filed a lawsuit Thursday in a Manhattan federal court seeking to delay New York City’s congestion pricing policy on the grounds that it would unfairly charge truckers.

The plan is slated to begin June 30, and could charge trucks up to $36 during peak hours against $15 for passenger vehicles entering Manhattan on or below 60th Street.

“TANY and its members are not fundamentally opposed to congestion pricing,” the association posted on X. “TANY is fighting to overturn the current version of this plan and hopes to improve the plan to reduce its adverse impacts and introduce parity for the logistics industry.”

New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority decided to implement the plan to raise further funding for the agency and to alleviate traffic, but it has been met with criticism. Truckers join Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) and a few others in challenging the plan in court.

TANY President Kendra Hems told the New York Times that the association “wasn’t pushing back on the overall program,” but “simply the way trucks are being targeted.”

Those remarks paled in comparison to what she told a popular trucking news website.

“The MTA’s reckless congestion pricing policy ignores the warnings and counsel of industry experts on both sides of the Hudson, who warn that the discriminatory way trucks and logistics companies are targeted by the plan will increase costs for residents everywhere,” Hems said.

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“This lawsuit was a step we took only out of necessity after the MTA repeatedly refused to make any concessions to our industry and ultimately used our essential, hard-working members as a tool to meet their arbitrary funding requirements. We hope that we can, through this litigation process, create a more equitable and fair policy that works for New York City.”

One trucking company owner told the New York Times that he wondered how there’d be “any money left for profit” once the tolls were included in his expenses.