A shipment from Innsbruck usually reaches the Czech Republic within 1 day – it is about 550 km to Prague and about 600 km to Brno, and every route first runs down the Inn valley to Kufstein.
The Inn valley as one line of pick-ups
Most of Tyrol's industry sits along the A12 in a single valley. We string pick-ups together from west to east, so the truck never has to double back on its way to Kufstein.
- Landeck – timber and goods from the upper valleys, first stop in the west
- Innsbruck and Hall in Tirol – wholesale warehouses, food, engineering parts
- Wattens and Schwaz – cut crystal glass and decorations
- Jenbach – gas engines and their parts
- Zillertal – sawn and glued laminated timber, hay-milk cheese
- Wörgl and Kufstein – warehouses by the motorway, glass, sports equipment
- Reutte (outside the Inn valley) – tungsten and molybdenum products
Tyrol's truck rules and what they mean for loading
Tyrol protects the Inn valley more strictly than the rest of Austria. Heavy trucks face a night driving ban on the A12, so a late-evening pick-up usually means departure the next morning. The sectoral ban keeps certain goods, such as timber or stone, off the A12 in transit; goods loaded inside Tyrol normally fall under the exemption for originating traffic, but we check the cargo type in advance anyway. Tyrol also restricts older trucks by emission class. On busy days the police let trucks into Tyrol at Kufstein only in blocks – which affects the vehicle coming from Bavaria to collect your goods. Across Austria trucks may not run from Saturday 15:00 to Sunday 22:00 or on public holidays, and winter equipment is compulsory in the cold season.
Via Munich or via Salzburg?
| Destination in the Czech Republic / Slovakia | Usual route from Kufstein |
|---|---|
| Prague, Plzeň, western Bohemia | A93 – Rosenheim – Munich – Regensburg – Rozvadov – D5 |
| České Budějovice, southern Bohemia | A8 via Salzburg – Linz – Dolní Dvořiště |
| Brno, southern Moravia | Salzburg – Linz – Vienna – Mikulov |
| Bratislava, western Slovakia | Salzburg – Linz – Vienna – Bratislava |
Even the Salzburg option crosses Bavaria on the German A8 after Kufstein, so the German ban on trucks over 7.5 t on Sundays and public holidays from 0:00 to 22:00 applies to both. Austrian GO-Maut, German and Czech tolls are included in the quoted price.
Requesting a quote from Tyrol
Tell us the pick-up place in the valley, the type of goods (because of the sectoral ban), the destination in the Czech Republic or Slovakia, pallet count and weight. In office hours the price comes within 30 minutes; on a route this short loading can often happen the same or next day. A full truck takes 33 euro pallets, 13.6 loading metres and about 24 t, groupage runs from 1 pallet. Goods from Austria travel without customs.
More pages: Freight from Austria · Salzburg · Munich · Linz · Vorarlberg (Dornbirn, Bregenz)
Loading in Tyrol on a regular basis? We set fixed loading days in the Inn valley that avoid the weekend and night bans, plus return loads from the Czech Republic – more on regular transport, dates via contact.
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