Handling truck blocking – Bavaria to block roads for trucks from Monday

This is to prevent trucks trying to avoid the backlog on the highway due to the block handling when entering Tyrol from clogging smaller highways and causing chaos in neighboring communities. These consequences are no longer acceptable, Söder emphasized on Friday during a site visit on Autobahn 8 near Rohrdorf.

Söder calls the lock “self-defense to protect citizens”
“We also have to ensure the protection of our population,” Söder told the German news agency dpa. He therefore called the Bavarian move a kind of self-defense to protect the citizens and the Inn Valley. But it was only an interim solution, the German prime minister explained.

The main goal remains that there will be no more block handling of trucks in Austria in the future. The measure is considered illegal, Söder emphasized.

According to Bernreiter, warning signs on the highways should warn truck drivers of the road closures – but the federal government has so far rejected a ban on exiting the highways. “Until now we have not come to a solution,” said the minister. “It is requested that the trucks do not leave the highway – but it is not ordered.” The closure of the side streets must be enforced by the Bavarian police. According to Söder, additional police officers will be deployed in the region for this.

Controversy that has been slumbering for years
The background of the whole is a smoldering dispute between Bavaria and Tyrol for years. To relieve the load on the Tyrolean Inntalautobahn, the black-green Tyrolean state government has been working with block handling for a long time. At the Kufstein/Kiefersfelden border crossing, a maximum of 300 trucks from Germany per hour are allowed to enter the country on certain days.

This regularly leads to traffic jams in the Munich area – and sometimes chaotic conditions in communities along the Autobahn in Bavaria. The Tyrolean state government had already announced at the end of March that freight traffic would be handled in blocks on 17 days in the second half of the year. This year the truck measurement is planned for a total of 38 days.

After Söder’s departure ban at the end of June, he received applause from Tyrol’s (now ex-) governor Günther Platter (ÖVP). For Tyrol, Söder’s initiative is a “confirmation of the anti-transit policy,” Platter said. Tyrol and Bavaria are “victims of a failed European transport policy, which greatly favors road transport and has caused a transit avalanche in recent years,” he said.