Monday, 17 OCTOBER 2011 - CATEGORY : PRESS RELEASES
Aix-en-Provence, France, 17th October 2011:
VIALTIS specialises in services for international road hauliers and is an accredited distributor for the TOLL2GO automated toll payment system.
The new TOLL2GO system is interoperable in Germany and Austria, and allows German and Austrian toll charges to be paid using a single unit.
TOLL2GO is the result of a partnership between the ASFINAG (GO-Box System) and Toll Collect GmbH companies. This service will allow hauliers to use the current Toll Collect unit (On-Board Unit or OBU) to pay toll charges and road taxes in Germany and Austria.
For hauliers using the German and Austrian road networks, VIALTIS offers subscription assistance for the new service and provides OBUs for vehicles with a rated gross vehicle weight of 12 tonnes and over, as well as a range of additional services (toll card management, monitoring of online transactions and invoices, automatic deduction of Austrian VAT, etc.).
Régis Cottereau, Director of Road Activity, explains: "The new TOLL2GO interoperable system makes things a lot simpler for road hauliers. And once again, VIALTIS has confirmed its commitment to offer customers an ever broader range of services and to promote systems encouraging automated toll payment interoperability throughout Europe - yesterday in France and Spain, today in Germany and Austria".
About VIALTIS:
VIALTIS is a service company dedicated to international road transport companies. A privileged partner of the IRU (International Road Transport Union, Geneva), the Group has 10 offices in Europe with more than 6,000 customers in over 40 countries. Since 1982, VIALTIS has developed lasting relationships with carriers of all sizes, thanks to its professionalism and expertise and by offering its customers substantial reductions in their charges. An independent road services expert, its business activities revolve around eight areas of competence: fuel, tax refunds on diesel fuel, recovery of foreign VAT and its financing, tolls and road taxes and ferry and train bookings and consultancy services throughout Europe. VIALTIS is ISO 9001:2008 certified.
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VIALTIS specialises in services for international road hauliers and is an accredited distributor for the TOLL2GO automated toll payment system.
The new TOLL2GO system is interoperable in Germany and Austria, and allows German and Austrian toll charges to be paid using a single unit.
TOLL2GO is the result of a partnership between the ASFINAG (GO-Box System) and Toll Collect GmbH companies. This service will allow hauliers to use the current Toll Collect unit (On-Board Unit or OBU) to pay toll charges and road taxes in Germany and Austria.
For hauliers using the German and Austrian road networks, VIALTIS offers subscription assistance for the new service and provides OBUs for vehicles with a rated gross vehicle weight of 12 tonnes and over, as well as a range of additional services (toll card management, monitoring of online transactions and invoices, automatic deduction of Austrian VAT, etc.).
Régis Cottereau, Director of Road Activity, explains: "The new TOLL2GO interoperable system makes things a lot simpler for road hauliers. And once again, VIALTIS has confirmed its commitment to offer customers an ever broader range of services and to promote systems encouraging automated toll payment interoperability throughout Europe - yesterday in France and Spain, today in Germany and Austria".
About VIALTIS:
VIALTIS is a service company dedicated to international road transport companies. A privileged partner of the IRU (International Road Transport Union, Geneva), the Group has 10 offices in Europe with more than 6,000 customers in over 40 countries. Since 1982, VIALTIS has developed lasting relationships with carriers of all sizes, thanks to its professionalism and expertise and by offering its customers substantial reductions in their charges. An independent road services expert, its business activities revolve around eight areas of competence: fuel, tax refunds on diesel fuel, recovery of foreign VAT and its financing, tolls and road taxes and ferry and train bookings and consultancy services throughout Europe. VIALTIS is ISO 9001:2008 certified.
Friday, 26 FEBRUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
According to a letter from the German transport minister, Peter Ramsauer, to his colleague in the state of Lower Saxony, Jörg Bode, a national test of the 25.25-m road combinations needs to be carried out.
A working group is to be created in the coming weeks to discuss the matter.
Thus far, only a few federal states have given their authorisation for a limited number of companies to conduct pilot projects.
Monday, 15 FEBRUARY 2010 - CATEGORY : MARKET NEWS
Having been put on hold last September, a new aid scheme for greener lorries has just been approved in Germany.
Transport operators acquiring HGVs equipped with EEV and Euro 6 engines (the latter is not yet on the market, incidentally) will receive a subsidy of 1,050 to 2,000 euros. This financial aid will vary according to the size of the company and the emissions class of the vehicle.
But will it be sufficient? After all, the manufacturers are talking about an additional cost of 10,000 euros for Euro 6 lorries. No surprise then that some voices are calling for a two-year postponement of the Euro 6 standard's application.
