Bavaria imposes a truck driving ban in force
Traffic
In Bavaria, since Monday morning – as soon as block processing is active on the Brenner autobahn in Tyrol – trucks in transit traffic have no longer been allowed to leave the A8 autobahn. In this way, politicians from both countries agree that 20 percent of the additional heavy traffic that burdens neighboring communities at the Kleiner Deutsches Eck should be avoided.
Trucks at the motorway exit near Piding (Bavaria) have been checked by the police since 9:00 a.m. Delivery traffic to the Berchtesgadener Land, to Traunstein, to the Pinzgau and to Kitzbühel (Tyrol) is allowed to pass, all other heavy vehicles have to drive back onto the motorway.
“The departure ban applies from 9:00 a.m. until block handling in Tyrol no longer takes place. Since 6:00 a.m. today there has already been an eight-kilometer traffic jam at the Kufstein border crossing and you can already see what is happening there,” says District Administrator Bernhard Kern (CSU), who is responsible for the Berchtesgadener Land. “If you are a truck driver, you use the Kleine Deutsche Eck again, but the trucks simply have no place there.”
Detailed regulation still pending
Some details are still open with the Bavarian truck departure ban. The exact regulation is still pending, according to the Salzburg side. The destination and source traffic area should be defined more precisely so that exceptions for delivery traffic can be regulated and regional commercial traffic secured.
The truck ban is a first result of a joint traffic summit between Salzburg and the Berchtesgadener Land in June. “We coordinated that well with our Bavarian colleagues. The last counts on the Bavarian side have shown that as soon as there are block handlings in Tyrol, around 20 percent more heavy traffic passes on our side. This is a circumstance that neither Bavaria nor we can accept,” says the Salzburg State Transport Councilor Stefan Schnöll (ÖVP).
Many violations of night driving ban
The Bavarian authorities also want to regularly check compliance with the truck driving ban at night. In the early hours of Monday morning, 35 trucks were checked at the Kleiner Deutsches Eck. More than half of the drivers did not have permission to drive through.