Many countries in the European Union will be celebrating Corpus Christi in June, so there will be traffic restrictions for HGVs.

Truck bans in Europe this June

A Polish haulage firm is facing a €15,000 fine after one of its Turkish drivers was found to have used a crafty tachograph hack that had been disguised as a technical failure. 

Haulier faces €15,000 fine for sly tacho hack disguised as technical fault

A logistics company from Düsseldorf has decided to test a 4-day working week for employees. A pilot has been running since the beginning of this year.

German logistics firm begins trialing 4-day working week

Earlier this week, the Bavarian police stopped a Turkish truck for inspection. During the check, it turned out that the vehicle's driver had spent more than 30 hours behind the wheel.

Police dish out €18,000 fine over trucker’s 33-hour drive with no recorded break

<span>The 5th and 6th of January will see truck bans in force in a number of European countries on account of public holidays.</span>

Truck bans in Europe on January 5th and 6th

Police unions in Belgium are appealing to officers not to issue fines for traffic offences as far as possible. In this way, unions hope to pressurise the government to take the formerly promised steps and improve police officers' working conditions.

Belgian road police officers go on partial strike, won’t issue fines for a month

A tragic accident on France's A72 motorway this morning, which involved as many as 23 vehicles, has killed one person and seriously injured another three. 

Black ice believed to have caused fatal accident in France involving 23 vehicles

As usual, over the Christmas and New Year period, there are various different HGV bans in force throughout Europe. In addition, there are HGV bans in 3 European countries on December 8th. 

HGV bans this December and over the Christmas/New Year period

A driver was fined nearly 1,500 euros in Luxembourg because the tachograph in his HGV hadn't been configured well enough. As a result, the device registered availability incorrectly several times, Dutch haulier association TLN reported. Such fines have been reportedly issued in France as well.

TLN warns of almost €1,500 euros fine for using wrong tachograph setting

Just over a fortnight ago, the French government met with various stakeholders in the logistics industry to discuss the country's driver shortage. The goal of the talks was to form a plan to make the profession of lorry driver more attractive. One of the ideas floated was a ban on drivers loading and unloading, something that has already been implemented in Spain and Portugal. 

Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus