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500,000 Trucks Registered for German Toll
London,UK -Transport News Network -6 Sept 2006: -- More than 500,000 trucks have been signed up to Germany's HGV toll scheme, LKW Maut, since its introduction in January 2005... The German system has so far raised about £2.7bn from lorries on 7,500 miles of motorways and a number of regional roads... Hauliers can pay automatically by fitting the black box, which records the vehicle's movements and transfers the data to a control centre, which then sends out monthly bills. Charges vary according to emissions and the number of axles, but range from 6p to 9.5p per kilometre... Foreign lorries not fitted with the boxes can pay in advance over the internet or at toll machines. It is those manual payers who need to be policed - by overhead gantries, which photograph number plates and check in a fraction of a second if the toll has been paid. If it hasn't, they are pulled over and fined... Since the introduction of the scheme, freight carried by rail has increased by seven per cent and the number of lorries running empty has gone down by 15 per cent. Orders for low-emission lorries have also increased...
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