Overview
- ADAC teams checked 100 sites at 22:00, 23:00 and 00:00 and found many areas full by 22:00 with violations increasing toward midnight.
- Testers recorded trucks in high‑risk zones at 48 locations and illegal parking at 85, with Plater Berge West on the A14 the lone site without violations.
- Problem hotspots included Kassel Ost Lohfelden on the A7 and the A1 sites Lichtendorf Nord and Tecklenburger Land West, where dozens to more than 100 breaches were counted.
- Government forecasts still point to roughly 20,000 missing truck spaces, the BGL contends the deficit is closer to 40,000, and only about 4,500 were added between 2018 and 2023.
- ADAC urges faster construction plus digital tools such as reservations and managed “kolonnenparken,” while telematics pilots at Jura‑West and Hunsrück‑West assign spaces but cannot create new capacity; ACE has linked overcrowding to fatal crashes.