Germany's night ban on trucks across Hesse has been resurrected since traffic noise has exceeded night-time limits of 62 decibels and will be enforce from March 15, said to the Shipping Gazette Hesse Transport Minister Dieter Posch.
Hesse has been beset with popular protests about airport noise with Lufthansa Cargo employees, with management backing, staging work stoppages to have the night flight ban lifted.
The previous truck ban for New Waldeck-Frankenberg, Schwalm-Eder, Marburg-Biedenkopf lapsed nearly four years ago but has been reintroduced for trucks weighing more than 3.5 tonnes on the federal highways B3 and B252 between 2200 hrs and 0600 hrs.
The Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics, and Disposal (BGL) has voiced its opposition to the ban along with businesses working in the areas that must make lengthy detours which it claims will adversely impact the environment.
BGL chief executive Karlheinz Schmidt said in a report from UK's International Freighting Weekly that the solution to heavy-congestion in the state involves the construction of the A49. "In the meantime, we need a sense of proportion, not populism."