District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier approached the Ludwigsburg Member of Parliament and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Steffen Bilger, months ago with a request to take up this issue at federal level and address it by amending the road traffic regulations. "Trailers parked on public roads for long periods of time are often a major nuisance for local residents. Especially when they are used illegally for advertising. They further reduce parking space, which is already scarce in many places, and sometimes even roads. It is already the case that trailers may not be parked for longer than two weeks without a towing vehicle," says Allgaier.
Steffen Bilger, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, has now announced that the Federal Cabinet has decided on an additional measure to take action against illegally parked trailers. The Road Traffic Act will now be amended to the effect that these illegally parked trailers without a motor vehicle can now also be fined if the perpetrator could not be identified. This makes it much easier for the authorities to punish the offense.
Steffen Bilger: "With its decision, the federal government is showing that this issue is being taken very seriously and is thus also taking the concerns of the Ludwigsburg district into account, at least in part." According to the Parliamentary State Secretary, further steps will follow. "Roads are not a long-term parking location for trailers and such an act is not a trivial offense."
The regulation under Section 25a (1) of the Road Traffic Act has become necessary in order to ensure effective punishment of traffic violations in stationary traffic and thus supplements the ban under Section 12 (3b) of the Road Traffic Act. Determining who is responsible for a parking offense is highly dependent on the cooperation of the vehicle owner. This also applies to determining who has parked a motor vehicle trailer in violation of the law. An additional complication in the case of vehicle trailers is that it is already problematic to identify the towing vehicle used or its owner if the vehicle is parked and not attached to a motor vehicle.
District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier views the decision from Berlin positively, although he would have liked to see a general parking ban for all advertising trailers in residential areas. Nevertheless, he is satisfied with the current regulation, which makes it much easier to punish such parking violations.
