Restricitons to heavy haulage transport in Tyrol on 7 August
Pre- and onward carriage in combined rail/road cargo transport remain excluded from the driving ban on HGVs and semi-trailers
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology has issued a driving ban on HGVs and semi-trailers with a maximum authorised weight of more than 7.5 tonnes, and HGVs with trailers with a total maximum authorised weight of both vehicles exceeding 7.5 tonnes, based on the § 42 paragraph 5 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, effective on 7 August 2015, from 4 to 10 pm (destination Italy).
This ban applies to trips with destinations in Italy, or passing through Italy on the following routes:
Inntal-motorway A 12 from the national border at Kufstein to the junction in Imst and the Brenner-motorway A 13, from the junction Innsbruck Süd to the national border.
Excluded from this ban are:
Trips for the transport of slaughter cattle, periodic print publications, beverage supply in excursion areas, urgent supply of gas stations, catering establishments and events or repairs to refrigeration equipment, towing service, roadside assistance, emergencies, medical care, vehicles of the road operator or vehicles on its behalf for the maintenance of road transport, road or railway construction, vehicles of the public security, fire services, waste collection and disposal, operation of sewage treatment plants or vehicles of a line transport operator to maintain the regular scheduled traffic, as well as trips in accordance with § 42 paragraph 3a Road Traffic Act, urgent trips by trucks, articulated vehicles or trucks with trailers of the armed forces or foreign troops, which due to the troops Residence Act, BGBl. I Nr. 57/ 2001 stay in Austria or trips of relief transports of recognized organizations;
Trips exclusively for the transport of fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh milk and fresh dairy products, fresh meat and fresh meat products, fresh fish and fresh fish products, live fish, eggs, fresh mushrooms, fresh bakery products and confectionery, fresh herbs as potted plants or cut, and finished food preparations and related empty trips or return trips to transport packaging of the aforementioned product groups. When transporting a bill of lading or a loading list shall be kept for each unloading station and be shown with controls. The status of the load (volume) must be traceable at any time from the beginning and during transport.
Trips in combined rail-road transport from the shipper to the nearest technically suitable rail unloading station or the nearest technically suitable unloading station to the recipient and back to the next loading station, provided a completed document (CIM/UIRR contract) is carried, from which is apparent that the vehicle or its superstructure (swap bodies, containers) are or have been transported by rail; this applies also to the combined transport of goods water/road mutatis mutandis
Trips with destination in Italy or reached via Italy and can be made credible that they are excluded from existing driving bans in Italy;
Other bans following the special driving restrictions (ban on night driving, truck driving ban due to the Air Pollution Control Act) shall remain unaffected and must be observed.
Drivers reaching the destination of the trip south of the Brenner but are demonstrably driving to their residence in Austria or the company headquarters in Austria, and wait there for the end of the ban, can as before continue their trip. It can be assumed that at least the temporary destination is in Austria.
Truck drivers are advised to largely avoid the Inntal and Brenner route or move to suitable parking before entering Austria and await the end of the bans there. It should be noted that HGVs not excluded from the ban will be stopped in the area of Kiefersfelden and at the Brenner pass. They can not enter Austria and must return.
Quelle: oevz.com