2012

News 2012

• 88 percent of Belgians against mega trucks

  

  10 Apr 2012. Also the vast majority of people in Belgium is against longer and heavier trucks on the roads. This was the result of an opinion poll by the research institute iVOX on behalf of the Belgian mobility organization Komimo and the environmental groups BBL, IEW and Greenpeace. Accordingly 88 …

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• Kallas to rethink position on cross-border use of mega trucks

  

  27 Mar 2012. EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas announced during a meeting of the EU Parliament's transport committee to reconsider his approach on cross-border traffic with longer and heavier trucks. At the beginning of the debate Kallas told that the decision about cross-border journeys of mega …

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• Cross-border use of mega trucks remains illegal

  

  29 Feb 2012. Border crossing journeys with mega trucks would continue to violate EU legislation. A possible reinterpretation of the current directive 96/53/EC which was announced by the EU Commission to the German transport magazine DVZ was withdrawn again. Before, the transport committee of the EU …

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• Germany: mega truck network contains numerous level crossings

  

  22 Feb 2012. The German route network for the trials of longer vehicles, which have been allowed since the beginning of January, contains numerous level crossings, even though the Federal Transport Ministry has previously categorically said that mega trucks would not cross railway lines via level …

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• 69 percent of Polish people against mega trucks

  

  01 Feb 2012. Also the majority of people in Poland refuses the admission of longer and heavier trucks. This was the result of an opinion poll conducted by Inquiry Market Research on behalf of the campaign “Tiry na tory” (move trucks to trains). 69 percent of respondents were against allowing Gigaliners, …

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