Ecotaxe for lorries is to bring additional money into the coffers

  On 1 October, France is introducing the so-called Ecotaxe. This ecological tax with the impressive-sounding name Taxe Nationale Poids Lourd, Ecotaxe for short, applies to every commercial vehicle registered in France or abroad with a permitted total weight above 3.5 tonnes. As the specialist Internet portal eurotransport.de reports, the tax amounts to between 0.025 …

Hungarian commercial vehicle toll system is not working properly

The electronic commercial vehicle toll system HU-GO was introduced in Hungary on 1 July. Several problems arose in the first few hours of its use. As the specialist Austrian publication “Industriemagazin” reports on its website, there were system failures between 1.00 a.m. and 3.00 a.m. and between 7.30 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. The Hungarian motorway …