Cargopedia’s European truck-restriction bulletin, updated 19 September, reminds hauliers that Italy’s A22 Brenner motorway is closed to vehicles over 7.5 tonnes from 07:00–15:00 on Saturday, 19 September, and 07:00–22:00 on Sunday, 20 September. The ban dovetails with Austria’s Tyrol night-ban and daytime block checks, creating a 15-hour window in which north-south freight must either detour via Tarvisio or hold at Vipiteno staging areas. Shippers of automotive components to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg face the greatest impact: just-in-sequence deliveries scheduled for Monday need to depart by 23:00 CEST on Friday or risk missing plant intake slots. Italian customs brokers confirm that the Verona Quadrante Europa intermodal hub has extended gate hours to accommodate additional rail-road transfers. The prohibition does not apply to perishable food, live animals or combined rail-road traffic, but carriers must carry exemption certificates on board. Failure to do so can incur fines up to €2 500 and a 24-hour immobilisation order from Italian police. Supply-chain managers should also watch out for the Tyrolean sectoral driving ban, which on 19 September blocks Euro V trucks carrying certain goods between Kufstein and Innsbruck. Combined, the measures are expected to push an extra 1 800 lorries onto the Tarvisio/Plöcken routes, potentially delaying evening ferry departures at Trieste and Venice. With the EU Mobility Package tightening cabotage enforcement, firms using non-Italian subcontractors must update posting notifications in the IMI portal before re-routing. Digital-platform providers such as TIMOCOM have already flagged capacity shortages for time-critical slots.
