Logistics information platform Logistikpuls issued a real-time update on 10 October confirming that Germany’s nationwide Sunday and public-holiday truck ban (§30 StVO) will start at 00:00 CEST on 11 October. The restriction covers HGVs over 7.5 tonnes as well as trucks with trailers engaged in commercial carriage of goods, with only limited exemptions for perishable food, live animals and combined rail-road transport. For mobility and relocation managers, the ban can complicate end-of-week household-goods moves and just-in-time deliveries of equipment to new project sites. Companies planning cross-border moves from Austria, the Czech Republic or Poland must ensure that vehicles reach German depots before midnight or arrange parking in designated frontier zones until the ban lifts at 22:00 on Sunday night. The German rule operates in tandem with Austria’s weekend bans and Tyrol’s truck-dosing calendar, creating a “compliance maze” along the Brenner and Kufstein corridors. Forwarders that violate the prohibition risk fines up to €2,000 and forced unloading. Human-resources teams should brief employees driving rental vans for private moves: anything over 7.5 t—even if self-driven—falls under the prohibition. Mobility partners can mitigate disruption by scheduling heavy-goods transport Monday–Saturday, using smaller 3.5-t vans on Sundays, or leveraging rail alternatives such as DB Cargo’s “Relocate Rail” service for expatriate moves. With Christmas season peak volumes approaching, the reminder underscores the importance of incorporating legal driving-time restrictions into global supply-chain and assignment timelines.
Source: Logistikpuls
