News / Angry haulier groups demand EC acts over 'massive' Austrian traffic jams

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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) and 12 European road haulage associations have renewed their calls for the EC to “stop Austria’s illegal anti-transit measures”, which have escalated in recent weeks in the Tyrol region and led to huge traffic jams.

According to the IRU, Austrian restrictions on the number of trucks that can transit the Tyrol region, which links the Brenner Pass on the Italy-Austria border with Germany, “resulted in a serious rear-end collision with a tanker truck and the ...