As a result of heat warnings (Code Red) issued by the National Meteorological Administration, the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administrations - CNAIR - decided to impose driving restrictions on 17 July 2024, between 11h00 and 19h00, for vehicles with a maximum authorized total weight of more than 12 t on the sections of national road, express roads, and highways in the following counties: Ilfov, Giurgiu, Teleorman, Argeș, Dâmbovița, Prahova, Ialomița, Călărași, Dolj, Olt, Vâlcea, Gorj, Mehedinți, Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Hunedoara, Arad, Alba, Iași, Bacău, Vaslui, Buzău, Vrancea, Galați, Brăila, Brașov, Sibiu, Covasna, Constanța, Ialomița, Călărași and Tulcea. 

CNAIR mentions that depending on the evolution of weather conditions, the restrictions may be lifted, maintained or extended.

During the driving restrictions, drivers can find parking places where it is possible to park, shelters and service spaces, shelters and service spaces in Romania in the following website from the Center for Road and Informatics Technical Studies.

The following transport operations are excepted from the driving restrictions:

- Passenger transport

- Consignments of live animals and perishable products of animal and plant origin

- Vehicles participating in interventions in case of force majeure

- Funeral transports

- Postal transports

 - Transports of first-aid equipment

 - Transport for the distribution of fuel

 - Temperature-controlled transport of goods

 - Transports for towing damaged vehicles

 - Transports for the distribution of water and food in disaster areas

 - Transport by specialized vehicles designed by construction for sanitation

 - Transports for bottled water and soft drinks

 - Consignments of products from agricultural holdings

 - Military transports involved in multinational exercises

- Transport of various food products (bakery products, fresh pastry and confectionery products, cookies and biscuits, preserved pastry and confectionery products, sugar and related products, cocoa, chocolate and sugar products, pasta, coffee, tea and products related, condiments and spices, special nutritional products, various food and dry products, juices and alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, including mineral water).