Truck driving bans in Germany
Calendar 2013

Date Holiday L G Community or town (C)
01.01.2013 New Year X X
06.01.2013 Holy three kings X BW,BY,ST
29.03.2013 Good Friday X X
01.04.2013 Easter Monday X X
01.05.2013 Labourday X X
09.05.2013 Ascension of Christ X X
20.05.2013 Whit Monday X X
30.05.2013 Corpus Christi X BW,BY,HE,NRW,RP,SL, (SN,TH)
08.08.2013 Festival of Peace X Augsburg (BY)
15.08.2013 Assumption X (K),SL
03.10.2013 German unity day X X
31.10.2013 Reformation Day X BB,MV,SN,ST,TH
01.11.2013 All Saints' Day X BW,BY,NRW,RP,SL
20.11.2013 Repentance and Prayer X SN
25.12.2013 Christmas X X
26.12.2013 St. Stephan's Day X X
L G C

Legend L / holiday per law
G / nationwide
C / Catholic communitys and towns

Abbreviations in holiday calendar:

BW = Baden-Württemberg NI = Niedersachsen
BY = Bayern NRW = Nordrhein-Westfalen
BE = Berlin RP = Rheinland-Pfalz
BB = Brandenburg SL = Saarland
HB = Bremen SN = Sachsen
HH = Hamburg ST = Sachsen-Anhalt
HE = Hessen SH = Schleswig-Holstein
MV = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern TH = Thüringen

 


Driving Bans on:

Sun- and Holidays

Time:

0.00 - 22.00 o'clock.

 

 

Affected vehicules

Trucks over 7.5 tons gross weight and trucks with trailers regardless of weight

Area:

Entire federal territory

Exceptions:

1) types of combined transport road/rail from the shipper to the nearest suitable rail unloading station or from the nearest suitable unloading station to the receiver, but only up to a distance of 200 km;
2) Transport of
a) fresh milk and fresh milk products,
b) fresh meat and fresh meat products
c) fresh fish, live fish and fresh fish products,
d) highly perhishable fruit and vegetables
3) Tractors - regardless of weight - which is exclusively used to pull other vehicles;
4) semi-vehicles up to 7.5 tons gross weight (they are considered trucks without trailers);
5) tractors with auxiliary loading area, whose capacity is not more than 0.4 times the gross vehicle weight ;
6) vehicles where the goods transported belong to the inventory of vehicles ) (ex. exhibitions, film Cars

Additional bans:

Holiday Travel Regulation

bans on:

Saturdays from July 1th to august 31th

Time:

7.00 bis 20.00 o'clock

Affected vehicules:

Trucks over 7.5 tons gross weight and trucks with trailers regardless of weight

Traffic jam risks:

A1: Leverkusen-West via Wuppertal, Kamener Kreuz, Münster till Cloppenburg from Bremen cross till Rade, from cross Buchholz till cross Horst
A2: Oberhausen till Berlin (Magdeburg/AD Werder).
A3: Oberhausener Kreuz via Heumar till Köln-Königsforst, from Mönchhof via Frankfurter Kreuz till Nürnberg
A4: Köln-West till Heumar and Kirchheim till Dresden (Dresden/AD Dresden).
A5: Hattenbach via Frankfurt, Karlsruhe till AS Offenburg.
A6: Schwetzingen-Hockenheim till Weinsberg, Schnelldorf till Nürnberg-Süd.
A7: Tarp till Hamburg-Schnelsen-Nord, Cross Horst, Hannover, Kassel, AD Hattenbach, Biebelried, Ulm/Elchingen und AD Allgäu till B309.
A8: Karlsruhe till München-West and from München-Ramersdorf till Bad Reichenhall.
A9: Berliner Ring (Leipzig/Potsdam) till München- Schwabing.
A10: Berliner Ring
A13: Lübbenau till Dresden/AD Dresden
A13: Schönefeld till Lübbenau/AD Lü
A45: Dortmund-Süd via Westhofener Kreuz und Gambacher Kreuz till Seligenstadt.
A61: Meckenheim via Koblenz till Hockenheim
A81: Weinsberg till Herrenberg
A92: München-Feldmoching till Oberschleißheim
A93: Inntal till Reischenhart
A99: München-Feldmoching via München-Nord till München- Brunnthal.
A215: Bordesholm till Blumenthal
A831: Stuttgart-Vaihingen till cross Stuttgart
A980: Cross Allgäu till AS Waltenhofen
A995: Sauerlach till München-Brunnthal
B18: Aitrach till A96 near Schwatzen (Lks Lindau).
B31: Stockach-Ost till Lindau
B105: Stralsund till Selmsdorf
B96: Greifswald till Berlin

Exceptions:

1) types of combined transport road/rail from the shipper to the nearest suitable rail unloading station or from the nearest suitable unloading station to the receiver, but only up to a distance of 200 km;
2) Transport of
1a) fresh milk and fresh milk products,
1b) fresh meat and fresh meat products
1c) fresh fish, live fish and fresh fish products,
1d) highly perhishable fruit and vegetables