Brussels, 06/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Sixteen months later than planned, a new automatic motorway toll system came into operation in Germany on 1 January for heavy goods vehicles. All lorries of 12 tonnes or more using the German motorway network are being charged 12.4 eurocents on average per kilometre through a sophisticated system of electronic on-board boxes which use a satellite detection and guidance system to calculate distances and issue immediate invoices to the lorry owner....