Truck driving bans All Saints 2026 and 11 November

Truck driving bans for All Saints 2026 run from Saturday 31 October to Wednesday 11 November. The truck driving ban on 11 November 2026 starts in Poland as early as Tuesday 10 November at 18:00.

In 2026, 1 November falls on a Sunday, so the holiday ban and the weekend ban stack. Below you will find the truck driving bans for November 2026 in Poland, Germany, France and eleven more countries, with an official source for each one.

Last checked: 28 October 2026. All hours are local time in each country.

Truck driving bans in Poland: 31 October, 1, 10 and 11 November

In Poland, the ban covers vehicles and vehicle combinations over 12 t GVW, except buses. It applies on all roads.

• Saturday 31 October: 18:00-22:00 (day before the holiday).
• Sunday 1 November: 08:00-22:00 (All Saints’ Day).
• Tuesday 10 November: 18:00-22:00 (day before the holiday).
• Wednesday 11 November: 08:00-22:00 (Independence Day).

The truck driving ban on 11 November 2026 works the same way as on 1 November: the evening before plus the whole holiday. There is no ban in Poland on the ordinary Sunday of 8 November, because the rules do not cover ordinary Sundays.

Exemptions from the Polish ban

The ban does not apply to, among others:

• live animals and perishable food,
• dangerous goods in vehicles with orange plates,
• mail,
• coal, coke, other coal-based solid fuels and firewood,
• fuel supply for sea vessels,
• combined transport,
• road works and emergency vehicles,
• vehicles of companies based in Poland that are returning from abroad to finish the haul or deliver to the consignee,
• vehicles that entered Poland outside ban hours and are within 50 km of the border.

Perishable food and mail must make up a significant part of the load. The full list is in the regulation Dz.U. 2023 poz. 2423 (in Polish).

Truck driving bans in Germany: Reformation Day and Sundays

In Germany, the ban covers trucks over 7.5 t GVW and trailers behind any truck, in commercial goods transport. It runs from 00:00 to 22:00 on Sundays and public holidays, on all roads.

• Saturday 31 October: 00:00-22:00, only in the states that observe Reformation Day (Reformationstag): Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia.
• Sunday 1 November: 00:00-22:00 across Germany.
• Sunday 8 November: 00:00-22:00 across Germany.

All Saints’ Day is a holiday in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, but in 2026 it falls on a Sunday and adds no extra ban day. 11 November is not a holiday in Germany.

Reformation Day catches out routes from Poland, because Brandenburg and Saxony sit right across the border.

Exemptions include combined rail-road transport up to 200 km, port-road transport up to 150 km, and fresh milk, meat, fish, fruit and vegetables. The legal basis is § 30 StVO (in German).

Truck driving bans in France: Toussaint and Armistice Day

In France, the ban covers vehicles over 7.5 t GVW on all roads. It starts at 22:00 on Saturday or on the day before a holiday and lasts until 22:00 on the Sunday or holiday.

• Toussaint (All Saints’ Day): from Saturday 31 October 22:00 to Sunday 1 November 22:00.
• Ordinary weekend: from Saturday 7 November 22:00 to Sunday 8 November 22:00.
• Armistice 1918 (Armistice Day): from Tuesday 10 November 22:00 to Wednesday 11 November 22:00.

In France, the 11 November ban is a full day, preceded by the Tuesday evening. There are no extra Saturday bans from the annual calendar in this window.

Île-de-France

On sections of the A6, A6A, A6B, A10, A12, A13 and A106 motorways around Paris, the bans last longer and have no exemptions. Examples from this window:

• Toward the provinces: from Saturday 31 October 10:00 to the end of Sunday 1 November, and from Tuesday 10 November 16:00 to the end of Wednesday 11 November.
• Toward Paris: from Saturday 31 October 22:00 to the end of Sunday, then again on Monday 2 November 06:00-10:00, and from Tuesday 10 November 22:00 to the end of Wednesday 11 November.
• Ordinary weekend 6-9 November: Friday 16:00-21:00 and Saturday 10:00-18:00 toward the provinces, from Saturday 22:00 to the end of Sunday in both directions, Monday 06:00-10:00 toward Paris.

Ordinary weekend hours follow the order (arrêté) of 16 April 2021, explained by Bison Futé. Holiday and extra bans for 2026 are in the 2026 ban calendar (both in French).

Table: truck driving bans in Europe, 31 October to 11 November 2026

The table lists the truck driving bans for November 2026 in every country with at least one ban day in this window. Hours are local time, and each row links to an official source.

The ban days in France on 1 and 11 November, in Italy, in Spain (except the N-II in Catalonia) and on the Croatian coast on 1 November are confirmed in the official 2026 calendars. The other days follow from standing rules on Sundays and public holidays.

Other countries: thresholds, roads and conditions

The days and hours are in the table. Here are the details that can change the answer for a specific order.

• Austria: on top of the weekend ban, trucks over 7.5 t have a night ban from 22:00 to 05:00, with low-noise vehicles exempt. From 1 November, the night ban on the A12 in Tyrol starts at 20:00 from Monday to Saturday, with exemptions for some Euro VI trucks among others.
• Czech Republic: the ban covers only motorways and class I roads.
• Switzerland and Liechtenstein: the threshold is 3.5 t, and the night ban adds to the Sunday ban, so the weekend runs from Saturday 22:00 to Monday 05:00. In Liechtenstein, 1 November is a ban day, but this year it falls on a Sunday.
• Italy: the ban covers roads outside built-up areas, motorways included. For a truck entering from abroad with documents, the ban starts 4 hours later, and for a truck heading abroad it ends 2 hours earlier.
• Slovakia: since 1 September 2026, the Sunday ban starts at 06:00 instead of midnight. The change came with Act 131/2026 (in Slovak).
• Hungary: from 4 November, trucks meeting Euro 3 or newer in international traffic are exempt. That helps on the weekend of 7-8 November, but not on 1 November.
• Slovenia: 31 October is a work-free day (Reformation Day), so the ban already applies on Saturday.
• Croatia: the holiday ban covers only selected roads on the coast, in Istria and near the ports of Split and Zadar.
• Luxembourg: the ban covers only transit toward France or Germany. Transit toward Belgium and domestic transport are not affected.
• Spain: there is no general weekend or holiday ban. Bans cover only listed road sections on listed days, set by the DGT and by the Catalan and Basque authorities. Dangerous goods (ADR) in Spain and Portugal have separate rules in this window, so check them on their own.

Saturday 31 October is not just Poland

On Saturday, bans start at different times in many countries. Nine German states have a ban from 00:00, Slovenia from 08:00, Spain from 08:00 on selected road sections, Austria from 15:00 and Poland from 18:00.

In the evening, Luxembourg follows (from 21:30 toward France), then France and Hungary (from 22:00), and Switzerland and Liechtenstein (from 22:00 to Monday 05:00). A truck still on the road on Saturday morning has less time than the holiday calendar alone suggests.

The 11 November ban outside Poland

Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy have no holiday ban on 11 November. France has a ban from Tuesday 22:00 to Wednesday 22:00.

Luxembourg adds a ban, but only for transit toward France, and so does the Basque Country for cross-border traffic toward France. If you haul a load from Poland to France, check both ends of the route: in Poland the ban starts on Tuesday at 18:00, in France at 22:00.

Countries with no additional bans in this window

In these countries, we found no ban day for ordinary trucks in this window:

• Belgium: according to Bison Futé, Belgium has no truck ban on weekends or public holidays (in French).
• Sweden: the last truck traffic ban ordinance, SFS 1977:53, was repealed on 1 January 2011 (in Swedish).
• Bulgaria: the draft 2026 restriction schedule for vehicles over 12 t, reported by the BTA news agency, has no dates in October or November (in Bulgarian). To be confirmed in the official calendar.

For other countries, such as the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the Nordic and Baltic states, we found no official text that confirms the absence of a ban.

How to plan routes around the bans

Treat the start of a ban as a hard stop. Plan the last parking spot and the driver’s rest before that time, not after it.

Look at the countries along the way, not only the country of unloading. On a route from Poznań to Lyon, you enter Brandenburg right after the border, where the ban on Saturday 31 October starts at midnight.

On a route from Wrocław to Milan through the Czech Republic and Austria, each country has different hours. In the Czech Republic the ban runs from 13:00 on Sunday, in Austria from 15:00 on Saturday, and in Italy from 09:00 on Sunday.

Send drivers the ban hours before 31 October and again before 10 November. Make one person in dispatch responsible for the final source check before departure.

Plan orders in ONYX TMS and build the ban hours from the table into them.

Where the data comes from

The data comes from the texts of laws and regulations and from the official calendars linked in the table. Some dates are confirmed in the 2026 calendars, and the rest follow from standing rules on Sundays and public holidays.

Countries can change their rules or announce exceptions at short notice, so always open the source or official notice for the countries on your route before departure.