Reported A Truck Down At 134 Km/h And Another Carrying 62 Tons …

It happened after a routine check carried out in broad daylight on the busy A9 motorway. Bayreuth city agents controlled the trucks for five hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., looking for vehicles that did not keep the correct distance. Incidentally, however, two special cases were also found, the first of which resembled speeding tickets from the United States, and the second of which was reminiscent of trucks from Scandinavia.

The number one protagonist of the story turns out to be a 50-year-old Kazakh, employed in a Polish transport company. On one of the slopes of the A9 motorway, it accelerated the assembly to a speed of 134 km/h, one of the highest results recorded in recent European inspections. And I would like to emphasize that this was not only a significant violation of the rules (at 54 km/h), but also of the speed index written on the tyres. Even the most expensive European models have a K index, which means a range of 110 km/h.

The second case involved a 37-year-old Czech man who was driving a German road train loaded with timber. It was a three-axle MAN TGX with a tandem trailer, which to the industry may seem a surprisingly small and fairly light setup. Despite this, the tonnage parameter here turned out to be really powerful, exceeding the permissible standards, for example, in Norway. The weight of the five-axle set was up to 62 tonnes, and this was achieved due to the exceptionally high weight of the timber. This, by the way, also exceeded the permissible dimensions, so the truck became twice as large.

And now the most interesting part of the text, namely the question: what could threaten such a demonstration in Germany? In the case of the Kazakh, a tachograph check was carried out, which confirmed that he regularly exceeded the speed limiter. Therefore, the police decided to increase the fine to a total of 1,000 euros (about 4,700 zlotys). And by the way, the tariff indicates that for exceeding 41 km/h, the driver may be subjected to a driving ban of three months.

In the case of a group transporting firewood, it was also decided to fine the driver in the amount of 1,000 euros. He was charged with a gross and aggravated violation of the law, as the truck had an axle load indicator on the dash that showed results similar to a police weigh-in. Furthermore, such a mode of transport was found to be illegal for creating a significant “economic advantage over competitors”. Thus, a process was initiated against the carrier, which consists in depriving him of unfairly obtained benefits. How much this means in practice can only be determined based on the company’s documentation.