Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Once again, the "truck tax" plays bad luck.
Or rather the "R-Pass", according to the name chosen by the European Community of Alsace (CEA).
Since 2005 and the introduction of the Maut, the toll for heavy goods vehicles in force in Germany, attempts to stem the flow of foreign trucks that clog the roads and motorways not conceded on the north-south axis in Alsace have all failed.
In 2013, the experiment claimed by elected Alsatians was buried at the same time as the ecotax, before the demonstrations of the Breton “red caps”.
New attempt during the creation of the CEA, on January 1, 2021. Its president, Frédéric Bierry, obtained from the State the transfer of national roads, with the corollary of the possibility of introducing the famous tax,
“in the name of the differentiation between communities”
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