As a citizen of a municipality that breathed much easier between 1.6.2019 and 31.7.2019 due to restrictions on transit freight traffic for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, I propose that the same ban on freight traffic be reinstated. I can only speak for the area where I live, that is, the area of the main national road 107, from the Dobovec border crossing to Celje. After the changes of 1 August 2019, the number of heavy goods vehicles on the road has increased sharply again, virtually overnight, and I do not notice any difference in the number, if I compare the situation today with the situation before 1 June 2019. So, in other words, there is almost no restriction on transit traffic in our area.

I believe that it is necessary to work with neighbouring countries to reach agreements, but it seems to me inappropriate that, after only two months of a really good situation in terms of greatly reduced transit traffic from heavy vehicles, the original situation should be restored and the safety of the people who live along the road should be reduced to the same level once again. Why are the advantages enjoyed by foreign hauliers (reduced transport costs, both in terms of fuel and tolls) being put before the advantages enjoyed by the people of our own country (greater safety, better sleep, less noise, etc.)?

 
From my own experience, I can say that in the Krapina-Zagor county (especially in its border zone), there are a large number of car transporters who do most of the transport abroad (Austria, Germany, Italy...). The addition of this region as an exception to the Dobovec border crossing thus represents a bonus almost exclusively for foreign nationals (the above-mentioned hauliers), who no longer need to go to the Gruskovje border crossing to go to Italy or the western parts of Germany and Austria, but can safely return to the same danger on the 107. I do not see this kind of bonus for our regional companies, which, for example, take goods to Zagreb or further afield to Serbia.

What poses an even greater problem on this road, especially in its border zone, are the Croatian hauliers who leave their heavy goods vehicles right next to the border in Slovenia during the weekend, in areas that are not intended for this purpose at all (e.g. by the roadside, in meadows, in large car parks not intended for goods vehicles, etc.). They are therefore not car parks. They avoid crossing the border, they destroy the infrastructure and meadows in Slovenia, they leave rubbish behind them - and we do not benefit (at least they pay a parking fee in the car parks set up for them). This is what is happening at the moment, when they have an added exception to cross the Dobovec border crossing, and this is also what happened between June and August, when they were not even allowed to cross that crossing, and they left their vehicles virtually in front of the border. So they were also driving peacefully on the roads despite the ban on transit traffic.

 
I propose that the situation as it was before 1.8.2019 be restored as soon as possible, the safety of the citizens of our country, a clean environment, and a peaceful sleep must take precedence over foreign carriers without any scruples.