According to Article 30 paragraph 3 of the German Highway Code, certain types of vehicles are subject to general driving bans on certain days. On Sundays and public holidays trucks with a permissible maximum weight of more than 7.5 metric tons as well as trailers hitched to trucks are not allowed to circulate unless the vehicles belong to the exceptions noted in the above-mentioned article.
| Vehicle type |
Time of driving ban |
| Trucks with a legal max. weight exceeding 7.5 metric tons and trucks with trailers *) |
Sundays and public holidays **), 12.00 A.M. - 10.00 P.M. |
*) Exceptions:
- Intermodal road/rail transports from the shipper to the nearest suitable loading rail station or from the nearest suitable unloading rail station to the consignee, but only up to a distance of 200 km,
- Intermodal road/port transports between point of loading or unloading and the port up to a max. distance of 150 km (delivery or removal),
- Transportation of a) fresh milk and fresh dairy products, b) fresh meat and fresh meat products, c) fresh fish, live fish and fresh fish products, d) perishable fruit and vegetables,
- deadhead runs connected to purposes as mentioned under point 2.
**) Public holidays are: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day (1st May), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi (only in the Federal States Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westfalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland), German Unification Day (3rd October), Reformation Day (31st October; only in the Federal States Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia), All Saints’ Day (1st November; only in the Federal States Baden-Wuerttemberg, , North Rhine-Westfalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland), Christmas Day, and Boxing Day.
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