News / reports

Carbon Footprint Comparative Survey: Cars with trailers frequently more climate-friendly than vans

Total emissions of cars with trailers are lower than those of vans without trailers in the majority of scenarios examined.

Ten Years of Growth / Trailer Industry Association Calls for Simpler Driving Licence Regulations

As today's leading European representative body, the Trailer Industry Association (Trailer Industrie Verband - TIV) has been championing the interests of its members for ten years.

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.