News / reports

Regarding the Amendment of VDI Guideline 2700

An Expert Report on the Admissibility and Recommended Actions is Available

Regarding the “End of Life Vehicles” Directive

The French association Les véhicules de loisirs (UNI-VDL) and the Trailer Industry Association (TIV) are preparing a joint response. We will present the position of the TIV to begin with here.

Visit of the CIVD

On 9 January, the new Chief Representative of the TIV, Karlheinz Spägele, paid his inaugural visit to the CIVD. It was agreed that the collaboration between the 2 organisations should be further consolidated.

TIV Continues Its Professionalisation Drive

Karlheinz Spägele Appointed Chief Representative of the Trailer Industry Association (TIV)

Continuity ensured

9th Annual General Meeting of Members on 26/27 September 2024, Frankfurt am Main

Challenges of medium-sized businesses, concerns of members

SVG Bundes-Zentralgenossenschaft Straßenverkehr eG (Federal Central Road Transport Co-operative) informs you concerning the change to the toll obligation from 1 July 2024

From 1 July 2024, vehicles and vehicle-trailer combinations with a technically permissible maximum mass of more than 3.5 tonnes will be subject to tolls on federal dual carriageways and motorways. Vehicle-trailer combinations are only subject to tolls if the towing vehicle has a technically permissible total mass of over 3.5 tonnes.

Brussels driving licence reform leaves much to be desired

TIV and BVMW intend to take further steps

The EU parliamentary position on the driving licence directive that has currently been agreed upon provides for an increase in the maximum permissible mass of the B driving licence to 4,250 kg, which in a manner that is very difficult to comprehend only applies to self-propelled motorhomes, but not to towing vehicle/trailer combinations. From the point of view of the Trailer Industry Association, this defies all reason and is detrimental to both trailer users and the European trailer industry. The 31 companies of the TIV that are now members account for 14,000 jobs in 10 European countries. They urgently anticipate a uniform, sensible and market-based reorganisation of the current obstructive driving licence regulations.

TIV contributes suggestions in collaboration with VDA and BVMW

Board member Dr Uwe Meyer speaks to the BVMW's Logistics and Mobility Commission

Berlin, July 2022: The EU Commission is currently revising the European Driving Licence Directive. For years, the Trailer Industry Association (TIV) has been advocating the merging of the driving licences for categories B and B96 and thus the raising of the maximum permissible total mass of a combination in trailer operation from 3,500 kg to 4,250 kg. In this way, the association wants to eliminate existing deficiencies in the driving licence directive. Following on from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), the board has now also won over the BVMW to support its proposals.

TIV and VDA extend collaboration

The executive board of the Trailer Industrie Verband visited VDA President Hildegard Müller in Berlin on 27 April. Two topics formed the focus of the visit: the challenges and opportunities of electromobility and autonomous driving, as well as a potential joint strategy of both associations vis-à-vis the EU against the backdrop of the upcoming revision of the driving licence directive.