As of 1 June 2019, truck traffic in the northeastern part of Slovenia is going to be partially restricted, according to the press release of the Slovenian Infrastructure Agency.
Thus, the access of vehicles with a maximum total authorized weight of over 7.5 tonnes passing through Slovenia will be banned on the regional roads of Carinthia, Drava and Mura.
The said traffic arrangement shall prohibit all transit traffic of heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes maximum allowed weight on the G1-6 and G1-7 roads through Slovenia, namely from Italy to countries like Croatia (the following Croatian counties are excluded: Istarska, Primorsko-Goranska and Ličko-Senjska – summarised in the following table: Istra, Kvarner, Lika, Gorski Kotar), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, and vice versa.
Transit traffic of heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes maximum allowed weight shall be allowed on those roads through Slovenia that come from Italy and the destination of which (e.g. unloading, the seat of the carrier’s company) is in Croatia (applies only for the following parts of Croatia: Istra, Kvarner, Lika, G. Kotar) or vice versa, namely whose starting point/origin (e.g. loading, the seat of the carrier’s company) is in Croatia (applies only for the following parts of Croatia: Istra, Kvarner, Lika, G. Kotar) and that are headed to Italy. The arrangement also does not prohibit the traffic of goods vehicles that load goods in Slovenia and drive to Croatia or to the aforementioned remote countries and vice versa. Within the area of restricted state road usage, marked with road signs (between Kozina and the Starod border crossing, and between Postojna and the Jelšane border crossing).
Remote transit traffic of heavy goods vehicles of over 7.5 tonnes maximum allowed weight from Italy in the direction of Croatia (of the continental part of Croatia), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania and vice versa is diverted to the A1 motorway and the A2 Kozina-Ljubljana-Obrežje motorway, which serves as a safer parallel road connection with better traffic and technical elements.
The transit traffic of heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes maximum allowed weight is diverted to the motorway connections (A1, A4 and A5), which in this case serve as a safer parallel road connection with better traffic and technical elements.
Drivers should expect difficulties at the border crossings of Bistrica ob Sotli, Središče ob Dravi, Zavrč and Dobovec. The only exceptions allowed are shipments that load or unloading in the above-mentioned regions.
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