Germany targets truckers to help motorists save fuel: interview

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

BERLIN (AFP) — Germany plans to squeeze truckers in an effort to ease congestion on the country's highways and help motorists deal with rising fuel costs, a minister said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

The government plans to restrict lorries to one lane and ban them from overtaking, as well as to increase toll prices at times and at locations when traffic jams are more likely, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee told Bild am Sonntag.

"I can understand very well the anger of motorists at rising petrol prices. I am afraid that we are not at the end of the price spiral ... The order of the day is save petrol!" Tiefensee said.

He also said he planned moves to speed up road repairs -- another major source of congestion -- as part of a package of...