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In eight weeks, hauliers registered 234,000 vehicles, 51% of the expected total of 458,000, for the new toll system. In the third week before the launch of the new toll system, the average daily number of vehicles registered grew. As expected, the hauliers who left their duty at the last minute are starting to register their vehicles as well.

Today CzechToll presented the results of a traffic model to the public that quantified the anticipated complications at the Czech borders at the time of launching the new toll system. Considering a minimum interest by small foreign hauliers to secure the new on-board units in advance, the model envisages a scenario of major traffic complications: at the entry to the Czech Republic the queues can stretch for tens of kilometres, the waiting time for picking up the on-board unit can then be up to tens of hours. Obviously, queues can also endanger the flow of passenger cars.

Last week hauliers registered 32 thousand vehicles in the new toll system. In total, CzechToll has already registered 154,000 vehicles, approximately 34% of the total of 458,000 vehicles affected by the obligation to install the new on-board unit.

In five weeks, hauliers registered 122,000 vehicles in the new toll system. This is approximately 27% of the vehicles that are obliged to register and secure a new on-board unit. Given the lack of interest on the part of hauliers to meet their obligation, the new toll system operator strengthened the information campaign in the Czech Republic and Poland - countries where the largest number of vehicles remains to be registered.

If small hauliers operating under the prepay toll mode fail to quickly fulfil their obligation to register and collect a new on-board unit, the Czech Republic is at risk of a traffic collapse in early December. While half of the big hauliers in the postpay toll mode have already carried out the necessary registration, only 5% of the obliged small hauliers in the prepay toll mode have done so. A total of 82,000 vehicles are registered in the system four weeks after the registration was launched.

In the first week after the launch of registrations, approximately 38,000 vehicles from 4,000 hauliers registered in CzechToll's new satellite toll system. So far, one thousand on-board units have been issued or shipped to hauliers. Only a small number of vehicles were registered in the system by smaller hauliers, who are mistakenly waiting for the end of legal toll disputes.

The registration of vehicles for the new toll system in the Czech Republic has started. Hauliers are obliged to register in the new electronic toll system and to equip vehicles with the on-board unit no later than on the start date, i.e. 1 December 2019.

Today CzechToll delivered 40 vehicles specially designed and modified for mobile toll collection enforcement in the Czech Republic as of 1 December 2019. Vehicles, which were used for enforcement by the Customs Administration, were received in Ivančice u Brna by the Minister of Transport Vladimír Kremlík together with Radek Mátl, entrusted with the management of the Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic.

CzechToll completed the production of 450 thousand on-board units 12 weeks earlier than required by the timeline for building the new toll system. It has also commenced the distribution of new OBUs to Points of Sale, where hauliers will be able to pick them up as a part of registration as of 22 September 2019. Test vehicles have driven on toll roads with the new units for over 1 million kilometres.