The ACE automobile club is sounding the alarm: there is a catastrophic lack of parking lots for trucks on German autobahns. The situation has reached a critical point - drivers are forced to park in prohibited and dangerous places.
According to the study, the average occupancy rate of parking lots was a shocking 151%. The absolute record was recorded at the Brönninghausen parking lot (A2): 35 trucks were parked there, which is 438% of the occupancy rate, compared to the norm of 8 cars.
The vast majority of the sites surveyed (76%) were blocked by vehicles parked at entrances, exits and roadsides. Only one in six parking lots had spaces available.
This shortage not only deprives drivers of proper rest, but also poses a direct threat to safety on the road. ACE calls on the authorities to urgently build tens of thousands of new parking spaces, as well as to close off dangerous areas where trucks are now pulling over. One solution could be the expansion of a digital monitoring system for vacant spaces.
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