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UnkategorisiertMärz 21, 20260 comments

Tyrol will inspect trucks even in the middle of the night

Tyrol is not planning to ease supervision of heavy goods traffic. In 2026, the ASFINAG mobile inspection unit will carry out checks on trucks for 150 days, and pressure on Brenner transit traffic will remain high. After a year in which 68,000 violations were detected and thousands of driving bans were issued, carriers must expect intensive inspections of both vehicle technical condition and drivers’ working hours.

The Tyrolean authorities have decided to maintain a high level of heavy vehicle inspections in 2026. The ASFINAG mobile testing train will be deployed for 150 days a year for technical inspections across the federal state. This represents an increase from the previously planned 112 days, with an additional 38 days added. The decision was taken by the Tyrolean government at the request of Regional Transport Minister René Zumtobel. Governor Anton Mattle emphasized that the enormous volume of transit traffic, particularly via the Brenner Pass, requires constant and decisive enforcement. Any violation—whether related to vehicle condition or driving and rest times—is treated as a threat to road safety in the region.

In 2025, around 2.4 million trucks crossed the Brenner Pass, illustrating the scale of infrastructure strain in Tyrol. The mobile inspection unit, operated jointly by regional technicians and ASFINAG in cooperation with the police, checks more than 4,000 vehicles annually. In 2025 alone, 6,282 technical defects were identified in 1,379 trucks.

Inspections are carried out not only on motorways—such as at Kundl, Radfeld and the Brenner Pass—but also on secondary roads, including the B179 Fernpassstraße (Musau checkpoint). In addition to the mobile unit, specially trained police officers conduct daily technical inspections.

In total, police devoted 87,000 working hours to heavy traffic enforcement in 2025, detecting approximately 68,000 violations. These included 13,587 technical defects, 35,500 infringements of social regulations (driving and rest times), 9,300 overload cases, 1,825 dangerous goods violations, 1,732 breaches of weekend driving bans and around 1,300 violations of night driving bans. In approximately 4,800 cases, authorities imposed immediate driving bans.

Tyrol has also announced further investments in control infrastructure. Modernization of the Radfeld inspection site is to be completed before summer, while a new emergency checkpoint with an evacuation exit will be built in Kundl along the A12 Inntal motorway. For carriers operating through Tyrol, this means continued intensive, multi-layered inspections in 2026.