Despite a fall of mileages, revenues from the heavy goods vehicle toll in Germany increased in the first quarter of 2009. From the beginning of 2009 the toll was increased from EUR 0.135 to EUR 0.163 per kilometre on average, Logistics Finland informed.
As a result of the slackening of economy, the total mileage of trucks over 12 tonnes fell from 6.9bn to 5.89bn km, but toll revenues rose 24% from a year earlier to EUR 1.084bn (USD 1.42bn).