Context: announced location and date
ANTT informed in 11/09/2026 the change of the planned location for the Free Flow on BR-040: the gantry will be installed at km 831, in Simão Pereira, Minas Gerais. The announcement indicates the start of operation in 04/11/2026. In the consultation of 22/09, this is a future announced date; the TRRC does not present it as confirmation of a system already in operation.
The agency describes the identification of the passage by equipment, without stopping at a booth. For travel management, the point of attention is to keep visible the record of a charge that does not depend on the delivery of a receipt at the gate.
In practice: prepare a reconciliation routine
Identify which planned trips pass through the section. Define who will monitor official announcements about the implementation and the consultation channels disclosed by the concessionaire. Also record which area receives the entries and which person monitors a discrepancy.
Before entering vehicle data or making a payment, confirm the address of the channel in the official communication. A link received in a message does not demonstrate that it belongs to the concessionaire. The internal form may contain the license plate or vehicle identification with restricted access, date of passage, travel reference, located entry, and forwarding of any differences.
After the start is effectively confirmed, compare the travel record with the received entry. Do not assume that the absence of a gate means the absence of a charge, nor that the installation of a TAG resolves any registration discrepancies. Payment and service conditions must be verified in the applicable official channels.
TRRC Analysis: the risk of an invisible record
In a hypothetical example, the trip is closed in the system before the financial department receives the entry. Without a shared reference, the team may not know to which service to attribute the value. Associating vehicle, date, and trip makes the question verifiable and reduces the dependence on subsequent messages to the driver.
Impact for each profile
The carrier can prepare the flow between dispatch and finance. The shipper can clarify how the provider will record the operation costs. The independent driver can organize the passages and receipts received without relying on a physical stop to remember the section.
Consult the Vale-Pedágio guide for document organization. This guide does not define who should pay in a specific contract nor does it replace the instructions of the section operator.
Source
ANTT — change of location of Free Flow on BR-040, consulted on 22/09/2026. Confirm possible updates before traveling; the date above is the one announced by the agency in the consulted source.