Rental vehicles
If you require a rental car at the time you take up your new position, please contact the HR Service team.
Mandatory autobahn vignette
On the Swiss and Austrian highways (autobahn), it is mandatory for your vehicle to display a vignette.
In Switzerland, there is only one annual vignette, which is adjusted to the calendar year. In Austria, in addition to a 10-day and a 2-month vignette, there is also an annual vignette adapted to the calendar year. In other words, the vignette is valid from December of the previous year to January of the following year.
The motorway vignettes are available at every petrol station or at border crossings and post offices.
Carpooling
Why drive to work in your private car alone, when it's more fun for two, three or four people to travel together while protecting the environment?
At https://carpool.hilti.com/ you can register if you want to start a car pool or are looking for a ride.
Mobility
The public transportation network (bus, rail) is cross-border and is very well organized. For additional information on timetables and prices see:
The Liechtenstein annual pass is worth mentioning. With it, you may use bus/rail facilities throughout Liechtenstein and across the border to Buchs (CH) and Feldkirch (A). It can be purchased online at www.liemobil.li or from the customer center at the bus station in Schaan.
Public transport offers attractive special fares for frequent travelers. In particular, the general pass (GA) or the half-fare ticket. Hilti supports mobility and refunds you a part of the annual subscription. In Switzerland and Liechtenstein you can also purchase bus and rail tickets with Reka.
We offer all HAG and HIBAG employees in Schaan free parking in the parking garage and the 1,100 parking bays on the factory premises.
The parking bays at HIBAG in Buchs (Rondelle) can be used free of charge by all employees using the HILTI badge – even over the weekend.
If you travel to work in an electric car, normally the charge of the battery is sufficient to travel back to your place of residence. If the capacity of your battery is not sufficient, you can recharge your electric car at the following places:
· Schaan at the parking garage
· Buchs at the guest parking lot and
· Nendeln at the bicycle shelter
. For more information, please contact our Mobility Manager Daniel Oehry.
Child safety in the car in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
The regulations apply whether children are traveling by car with parents, grandparents or their neighbor. Every vehicle driver is responsible for ensuring the safety of children in the car in line with regulations.
The regulations for child safety
- Children up to 12 years who are less than 1.50 meters tall require a restraint that is appropriate for the weight and size of the child, which may only be used on vehicle seats equipped with a suitable safety belt.
- Children from 1.35 meters tall can use a standard seat belt (when sitting on seats equipped with safety belts).
You can find more information here. You can also view the flyer "Children in the car" in different languages here.
This is how parental control works abroad.
Ban on using mobile phones while driving in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Making phone calls while driving is only permitted with the use of hands-free equipment. "Making phone calls" includes both the holding of the call as well as all actions for setting up and ending the call. Therefore, both accepting phone calls and making phone calls while driving are only permitted when hands-free equipment is used. If you make phone calls while driving with the hands-free kit, the mobile phone does not have to be fastened inside the car.
Anybody who makes a phone call without a hands-free kit while driving will be fined CHF 100. (Anhang 1 Ziffer 311 der Ordnungsbussenverordnung, only available in German). In Liechtenstein the fine is CHF 80.
Telephoning while driving or operating communication systems and information systems can, depending on the case, lead to the withdrawal of a driver's license, high fines or imprisonment.
Drink driving in Liechtenstein
Whoever drives a motor vehicle in Switzerland with a breath or blood alcohol value of 0.80 Promille or more must expect legal consequences.
In most of Liechtenstein's direct neighbours, the legislator has set the blood alcohol limit at 0.5 Promille. In Austria, however, the maximum level shall be <0.5, i.e. 0.49 alcohol Promille.
Liechtenstein does not prescribe any concrete monetary sanction for driving a vehicle in an alcoholic state. Instead, the sentence is determined by the court in criminal proceedings.
Bicycles in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
In Switzerland, there is no mandatory liability/third-party insurance for bicycles. Private liability insurance prevents cyclists from being left with damage. Motor third party liability only pays for accidents in the car.
You should always make sure that your bicycle (especially the lights) is in good working order and follow the general traffic regulations on the "bicycle" as well.
Personal requirements for cyclists:
- Children under the age of 6 may only cycle on the main road under the supervision of an accompanying person (minimum age 16 years).
- Riding alone from the 6th birthday.
- The minimum age for all e-bikes is 14 years. Slow e-bikes may be ridden from 16 years of age without a driving licence. Young people with a category M driving licence (motorcycles) may ride slow e-bikes from 14 years of age.
Are cyclists allowed to cross a zebra crossing? Yes, but it's like riding over a road. They do not have priority. Priority only applies to pedestrians and wheelchair users on a pedestrian crossing with a zebra crossing. Therefore, cyclists only enjoy the advantages of a zebra crossing if they descend and push.
Even if wearing a helmet is not required by law, it is advisable to wear a helmet. Children in particular should always wear a helmet.
Further information can be found here (only in German, Italian or French).
Transport of children
Children may be carried in special child seats. Make sure that the child seat is marked with the permissible weight, the company logo, the date of manufacture and the EN 14 344 standard. The cyclist must be at least 16 years old. The child should also wear a helmet and be strapped in. In trailers, a maximum of two children of at least 16 years old companions may be taken along. They should be strapped into the trailer and wear a helmet.
