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UncategorizedJanuary 11, 20240 comments

Austria: Winter Saturday HGV driving bans in 2024

As in previous years, the Austrian Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology has introduced additional winter Saturday driving bans for vehicles with a MAM of more than 7.5 t on the A 12 Inntalautobahn and the A 13 Brennerautobahn.

The ban applies on all Saturdays from January 13 to March 9, from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.:

➡️ January 13, 20, 27
➡️February 3, 10, 17, 24
➡️ March 2, 9

The ban applies if the destination of the transport is located in Italy or in a country that can be reached via Italy, or in Germany or in a country that can be reached via Germany.

The following journeys are exempt from the driving bans mentioned in § 1:
1. Transports of slaughter cattle or livestock, mail items and periodicals, supplies of drinks to tourist areas, urgent deliveries to petrol stations, catering establishments and events or repairs of cooling systems, towing services, roadside assistance, assistance in emergencies, medical care, the use of vehicles by road maintenance companies or to maintain road traffic, in road or rail construction, the use of vehicles by public security services, fire brigades, the use of vehicles for garbage collection, waste disposal, to maintain the operation of water treatment plants or the use of vehicles by companies providing regular passenger transport services, as well as journeys of vehicles used by travelling carnivals (Section 2 (1) Z 42 KFG 1967), incl. teams of lighting and sound engineers travelling to and from the venue (Section 2 (1) Z 42 KFG 1967), journeys according to § 42 para. 3a StVO, urgent journeys involving trucks, articulated vehicles or trucks with trailers used by the Austrian armed forces or foreign troops staying in Austria by virtue of the Troop Residence Act, BGBI I No. 57/2001, or humanitarian aid transports performed by recognized organizations;
2. Journeys performed exclusively to transport goods to or from airports (Section 64 of the Aviation Act) or military airfields that are used for civil aviation purposes in accordance with Section 62 (3) of the Aviation Act;
3. Journeys involving combined rail-road freight transport from the consignor to the nearest technically suitable loading station or from the closest technically suitable unloading station to the consignee and back to the next loading station, provided that a fully completed document can be presented showing that the vehicle or its superstructures (swap bodies, containers) are to be transported by rail or have already been transported; this applies mutatis mutandis to combined water-road freight transport.