News / Campaigners angry as Germany looks set to allow cross-border trials of 60-tonne mega-trucks

Campaigners against longer, heavier vehicles (LHVs) – so-called mega-trucks – on Europe’s roads have reacted with dismay to a speech by Germany’s federal minister of transport on Friday, in which he indicated that the country will allow trials of the vehicles to go cross-border next year.

According to Berliner Morgenpost, transport minister Alexander Dobrindt informed the Federal Association of Road Transport Logistics (BGL) of the government decision, which follows that of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which last week became the 14th out of Germany’s 16 states to ...