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Irakleio Attikis has one driving restriction on our books: the Ωράριο φορτοεκφόρτωσης εμπορευμάτων για την τροφοδοσία των… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-21, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-20.
Irakleio Attikis is the eighth and newest case of a single Attica traffic decision, added to it in July 2025 at the request of the municipality's own council. Loading and unloading of goods for the supply of the town's businesses, supermarkets and other shops is permitted from 19:00 to 07:00.
Outside those permitted hours — 07:00 to 19:00, every day of the week — the resupply is to be carried out with vehicles of gross weight up to two tonnes, which means a heavier goods vehicle has no daytime hour in which the decision lets it deliver here. Shops that have their own loading and unloading space, and so do not burden the public space, are exempt from the timetable altogether.
The decision adds one instruction that none of the other seven cases contains: the hours printed on the town's existing loading-bay signs are to be adjusted to match it, so a sign in Irakleio Attikis that still shows an older window is a sign that has not been changed yet rather than a different rule. There is no charge, no permit, no sticker and no emission class anywhere in the instrument.
If you are driving a car none of it reaches you at any hour, and neither does a van that is simply being driven rather than used to resupply a shop. Above the case sit the six exemptions that run through the whole instrument, of which one is about the vehicle rather than the errand — a purely electric vehicle of up to 2.5 tonnes gross is outside the restrictions.
Unlike the other suburban cases, this one is written in the full language of the parent decision — «των επιχειρήσεων, των υπεραγορών και των λοιπών καταστημάτων», businesses, supermarkets and other shops — rather than the shorter «καταστημάτων (super markets)» of Ilioupoli, Galatsi and Dafni-Ymittos. ⚠️ Do not confuse this town with Heraklion in Crete, which is a different city of the same Greek name and is not in this decision.