Ohio truck drivers may have a quicker way to get from east of Canton to West Virginia and Pennsylvania, but that will depend on a study commissioned by the Department of Transportation.

The plan would create a toll road and replace the winding two-lane section of state Route 30 with a four-lane divided highway to East Liverpool.

Pam Sparks is a dispatcher for the D.L. Belknap trucking company outside of Canton. She says the extension would likely save truckers money in fuel costs – even with new tolls.

She also points out the new toll road would help truckers avoid neighborhoods and dangerous stretches of the current route.