Even more trucks on the roadside: EU ban makes a deadly threat even worse

This fire-dangerous Situation has probably not seen that before: turn at night on a highway Parking lot and immediately get in the iron because of the truck bay

Even more trucks on the roadside: EU ban makes a deadly threat even worse

This fire-dangerous Situation has probably not seen that before: turn at night on a highway Parking lot and immediately get in the iron because of the truck bays to the delay strip block. Already several times it came to fatal rear-end collisions. Visa secured?

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"especially during the week stations, the load on the Parking lots, rest areas, and the car is very high," says the managing Director of the Association of German truck stops which e. V. (VEDA) Alexander Quabach. Even if in the course of the Corona-crisis of the transport traffic on the German highways with something which is gone, is the ratio of truck Parking to the actual needs of the trucks, as before, in a dangerous imbalance.

still far too little truck Parking

it has the "nationwide survey on the Truck Parking situation and BAB in Germany in the night hours," arise, carried out by the Bundesanstalt für straßenwesen (BASt), two years ago, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for transport and digital infrastructure (BMVI). The Numbers are clear: Per night, the auditors were, on average, 94.100 parked truck . Around 74,500 truck drivers use the in 1929, designated rest areas or former border customs facilities, to spend the night. So far, So good. However, the Federal government has for these facilities only have a capacity of 51.600 truck Parking. This means an Overcrowding of 23,000 Parking spaces. ADAC car Park-Not the driver of the truck

When the truck stops it just looks better. An average of 19,100 truck bow for the night's rest in one of the 224 private truck stops which. However, there is only room for well-18.700 trucks. The investigation of the BASt comes to the conclusion, that, in and to the Federal car around 23.300 truck lanes-Parking lots are missing. In the case of the increasing Transport volume of traffic, the tendency is rising.

"The Problem is growing for us over the head"

"It must now be traded, otherwise the Problem on the head grows for us," suggests Alexander Quabach Alarm. The "Tank & Rast GmbH" shares this assessment. "First of all, the clear priority in the Expansion of the existing rest areas on the highway, which is also technically and possible for us," says Dietmar Thomas, and suggests that "a greater use of already existing local commercial thinking space." Video can save lives: the dead angle of the truck - for children explains FOCUS Online/Wochit Video can save lives: the dead angle of the truck - for children explains

This proposal goes d'accord with the plans of the Ministry of transport. With a Five-point Plan Minister Andreas Scheuer of the Not want to back to the body, and by funding the door for private investors open, which could then in so-called "highway-oriented areas" of the Park space. But there start the problems. Many well-intentioned ideas fail due to the resistance of local residents. "Some fear to get the crime in the area," explains Alexander Quabach the Fears of the citizens. However, this changes little in the way of the facts. Many truck drivers are looking for in their time of Need a Parking space in commercial areas that are located close to a motorway exit.

local residents are fighting back against truck Parking

For the Expansion of the existing grid facilities, the Federal government wants to be in this year 100 million Euro in the Hand. Since the space is finite, to telematic Park procedures, or the columns and the compact Parking use of the existing Park space by up to 50 percent better. Here, the Auto-Newsletter

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However, this idea also requires a certain amount of discipline the truck driver. The idea that Trucks are allowed to Park in the night even on unused car Parking spaces, anticipating the actual situation already. As well as the lifting of the upper limit of 50 truck Parking stalls for abandoned wine grid systems. Here are the truck driver to provide so much facts and capers faces this Parking, to Park wild. So the risk that the temper-thought-out solutions to the Problem only slightly, and certainly not completely out of the world create. Mega charger, 5 seconds to 100: Finished the Tesla Truck, the Diesel era?

Date Of Update: 14 July 2020, 15:28
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