Translation of "Schweren lastkraftwagen" in English

This is certainly the case for heavy-duty vehicles.

Tired drivers in large lorries are disastrous for road safety.

We are a company dedicated to the industrial weld of More... heavy tanks.

Watched in the city of heavy trucks.

At present there is no European legislation on driving restrictions applying to heavy goods vehicles.

Heavy commercial vehicles comprise trucks of more than 6 tonnes and buses (except for the USA).

With gross vehicle weights from 18 to 32 tons, vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz Econic series belong to the heavy trucks.

Mr Paolo Costa rightly stressed that the retrofitting of mirrors on every heavy goods vehicle registered after 2000 in order to eliminate the blind spot in the driver's vision would save the lives of more than a thousand people by 2020.

In terms of driver vision, European legislation addressed the problem of heavy goods vehicles by Directive 2007/38/EC on the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles registered in the Community.

The next item is the report (A5-0191/2002) by Gilles Savary, on behalf of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism, on the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a transparent system of harmonised rules for restrictions on heavy goods vehicles involved in international transport on designated roads (COM(2000) 759 - C5-0679/2000 - 1998/0096(COD)).

As a result, in October 2006 the European Commission adopted two legislative proposals on the issue of reinforcing road safety and, thanks to excellent cooperation between the European Parliament and the Council, the two co-legislators quickly reached agreement on a proposal for a directive on the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.

Under this system, which takes no account of distances covered, all heavy goods vehicles are charged - in addition to the vehicle taxes and excise duties - a tax for the use of the infrastructure in the participating countries.

However, these later sources seem to indicate that, with the introduction of cleaner engines and fuels as well as catalytic converters in heavy goods vehicles, road transport is closing the gap on certain fronts.

On 25 May 1998 the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for a Directive on a transparent system of harmonised rules for restrictions on heavy goods vehicles involved in international transport on designated roads (COM(1998)115 final –98/0096 (SYN)).1

However, on vehicles such as heavy trucks and tourist coaches, where the benefit of Electronic Stability Control Systems may be even greater than for cars, there is often not the market incentive to fit Electronic Stability Control Systems voluntarily, since, unlike the case with cars, the purchasers are not normally the beneficiaries.

In its third Road Safety Action Programme6 the Commission committed itself to investigating the issue of retrofitting heavy goods vehicles already in circulation with devices for indirect vision to reduce their blind spots and thus to contribute to the reduction of road fatalities.

Traffic growth over the past decade – in particular heavy lorry traffic – has led to increased congestion and pollution throughout the territory of the Community.

On the other hand, traffic density has increased greatly in recent years, with heavy lorries in many regions and conurbations.

On the other hand, traffic density has increased considerably over the past few years, owing to heavy goods vehicles in certain regions and conurbations.

In its 10 year roadmap in the Final Report ”A Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st century” the CARS 21 High Level Group recommended an integrated approach with regard to road safety including the compulsory introduction of new safety features, such as mirrors to reduce the blind spots of heavy goods vehicles.

The latest amendment to the vehicle noise legislation in 1995 led to a reduction of noise emissions of 85 % for cars (-8 dB(A)) and of over 90% for heavy lorries (-11 dB(A)) compared to the initial limit values established in 1970.

In its third Road Safety Action Programme the Commission committed itself to investigating the issue of retrofitting heavy goods vehicles already in circulation with devices for indirect vision in order to reduce their blind spots and thus to contribute to the reduction of road fatalities.

In its 10 year roadmap in the Final Report ‘A Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st century’, the CARS 21 High Level Group recommended an integrated approach with regard to road safety including the compulsory introduction of new safety features, such as mirrors to reduce the blind spots of heavy goods vehicles.

Therefore the Commission will consider to withdraw proposals identified in this category including the soil directive and a directive simplifying VAT obligations, a proposal on the statute of a European private company, the regulation on statistics on steel and the retrofitting of mirrors to heavy goods vehicles.

The Commission therefore proposes to extend the requirements for the lateral field of indirect vision to the existing fleet of heavy goods vehicles.

This proposal represents a major step forward in the control of emissions from heavy-lorry engines.

The Commission estimates that retrofitting existing heavy goods vehicles with blind-spot mirrors could save more than 1200 lives on European roads between now and 2020.