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Mar 9, 2015

INFRASTRUCTURES * Europe / Germany: A long, strange trip for German truckers near Duisburg

* North Rhine-Westphalia - Achtung all truckers heading eastward towards Duisburg - bring a pillow 

 -- As of Tuesday, you won't be able to go over a main bridge. Why? It's too old. And it's part of a bigger problem facing the German government... Apart from posts about good deals on big rigs and spare parts, licensing and job openings for truckers in and around Oberhausen, Duisburg and Essen, the 12,202 members of the online chat room forum-speditionen.de seemed this weekend to have nothing else on their mind other than a bridge... The bridge in question is part of the A40 autobahn and crosses the Rhine River between Oberhausen and Duisburg. Its location makes it one of western Germany's most heavily used bridges in what is one of the most important inland waterway transportation hubs in all of Europe... As of noon on Tuesday, no trucks over 3.5 tons heading from Oberhausen to Duisburg will be able to traverse the Rhine on the A40. Instead, they will be forced on a detour through the veritable jungle that is the complex mix of highways in the Ruhr region... The 11,000 trucks that normally go over the A40 bridge every day will be rerouted onto the A57, then the A42, then the A3, and finally back to the A40 and on their way... (Photo from dpa - The Neuenkamp bridge near Duisburg - Passage over the A40 bridge - impossible for truckers as of midday on Tuesday)  - Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - DW, by Gabriel Borrud - 7 March 2015

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