Heavy Trucks and Buses
Concerning Commercial Vehicles and Buses AMVIR pursues the following:
- Initiatives for fleet renewal with the aim to reduce the average age of circulating heavy vehicles. This is very important especially for trucks, as almost half of them are over 20 years old!
- Introduction of disincentives for the use of older, less safe and polluting vehicles.
- The elimination of Registration Tax, since these vehicles are tools and not a general mean of transportation.
- Improvement and maintenance of the fleet’s good condition through "on the road" inspections and constant technical monitoring carried out by the Periodical Technical Inspection Centers.
- The adoption of a new system that restricts or permits the circulation of heavy commercial vehicles and buses in the region around Athens, according to the vehicles' emissions.
- Option for private enterprises of renting rather than buying trucks, since it will help them cover their transportation needs without being forced to increase their assets.
