Talegaon Toll Plaza Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway

Working at the Talegaon Toll Plaza means you get used to the constant sound of engines and the smell of exhaust. We are located out by Talegaon Urse on the MIDC Road, right where the Yashwantrao Chavan Expressway passes through. It’s a place that never really sleeps. Day and night, trucks and cars are rolling through the gates. We spend our shifts in the booths or around the plaza grounds, making sure the lanes stay moving. It’s a lot of repetitive work, handling the transactions and watching the barriers go up and down. The weather out here can be tough, either very hot in the sun or quite windy because it’s an open stretch of road. We have a small staff area where we take our breaks and have some tea before heading back out to the lanes. It’s not the kind of place people visit for fun; they’re usually in a hurry to get somewhere else, like Mumbai or Pune. We see thousands of faces every day, but only for a few seconds at a time. The office part of it is just as busy, dealing with the logs and the equipment maintenance. It’s a very functional environment. There’s no fluff here, just the reality of the highway and the people moving along it at all hours.