Heatwave: First states allow truck transports on Sundays and public holidays
Because the water level in the Rhine has dropped significantly due to the high temperatures, some federal states are suspending the driving ban for trucks.
Mainz. Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland are temporarily suspending the Sunday and public holiday driving ban for certain truck transports due to the ongoing low water levels on the Rhine. This would allow goods that currently cannot be transported or can only be transported to a limited extent via the waterway due to the low water levels to be transported more easily by road, the Ministry of Transport in Mainz and the Ministry of Mobility in Saarbrücken explained. The exception regulation already applies this weekend.
The exemption from the Sunday and public holiday driving ban applies to transports that are directly or indirectly related to the low water levels on the Rhine or resulting replacement transports. It also includes empty journeys that are directly or indirectly connected to these transports. If transports on the Rhine are only possible to a limited extent, other transport modes must be able to support flexibly.
"We are creating the necessary scope for this," said Rhineland-Palatinate's State Secretary for Transport Markus Wolf.
The Saarland Minister for Mobility, Petra Berg (SPD), said that especially for the Saarland as an industrial location, it was crucial that necessary goods and raw materials reached their destination.
Translated by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's report; automated translation may contain errors. Machine-written — it may contain errors, so check the original before relying on it.
