389,552 vehicles cross the Swiss border every day. This is shown by a survey by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Over 100,000 vehicles enter the country from Germany alone every day – around 1,200 of these are trucks, whose drivers deregister or register at the border crossings and drive on. A Polish driver from Germany was refused permission to continue his journey at customs in Basel on August 7.
During a check, officers from the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (BAZG) noticed that the Pole, who was driving a semi-trailer truck, smelled strongly of alcohol. An alcohol test confirmed that the driver had a blood alcohol level of 1.5 per mille and was unable to produce a driver’s license. His journey was therefore terminated.
The truck driver is a repeat offender, as a telephone call with the German police revealed. In fact, it turned out that the police had already stopped the driver drunk on the German motorway four days earlier. The breathalyzer test showed a blood alcohol level of 3.3 per mille, which led to the officers confiscating the Pole’s driving license.
The BAZG handed the drunk driver over to the German authorities. His semi-trailer was confiscated and picked up the next day by a sober colleague.
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