About Road Clarity

Road Clarity is built and maintained by me, Mitja Kočevar — a developer based in Slovenia. It’s a one-person project: I do the research, write the pages, and maintain the site.

I travel as often as I can manage, and when I do, I’d rather drive than fly into a city and work outward from a hotel. A car is how you actually see a place. You stop where you want, reach the towns the trains skip, and change the plan halfway through the morning because something looked interesting from the road. The only part of it I have never enjoyed is the evening before.

That evening is always the same set of questions. Does this country want a vignette, or are there toll booths? Is my licence enough on its own, or does it need a permit alongside it? What equipment has to be in the car? Is there a season when winter tires stop being a suggestion? And which city center is going to photograph my plate and post a fine to an address I will have left by then?

The answers are never in one place. A government page in a language I don’t read. A toll operator’s site far more interested in selling me something than explaining it. A motoring-association summary with no date on it anywhere. A forum thread from some years ago where three people confidently contradict one another. I’d lose an hour to it, arrive at something like eighty percent confident, and set off hoping the missing twenty wasn’t the expensive part.

Living in Slovenia turns that from an occasional annoyance into a routine one. It borders Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia, so an ordinary weekend can cross two or three sets of rules in a single afternoon — a vignette on one side of a border and toll booths on the other, alcohol limits that tighten for newer drivers, winter-equipment seasons that don’t line up, restricted city zones enforced entirely by camera.

Road Clarity is that lost hour, done once and done properly, for every country I could find official sources for. It’s the page I kept looking for and never found, so eventually I built it — first for my own trips, then for anyone else standing in the same spot the night before setting off.

I’m not a lawyer or a traffic official, and Road Clarity isn’t affiliated with any government, motoring association, toll operator, or rental company. It’s a careful summary of published official material, written to be read before you drive.

The information isn’t secret, it’s just spread thin. Speed limits sit with one national authority, tolls with a motorway operator, low-emission zones with individual city councils, and licence and permit rules with a foreign ministry — each publishing in its own language, in its own format, and very often without a date, so you can’t tell whether what you’re reading still holds.

So most people plan a drive abroad from forum posts and travel blogs instead: easy to read, frequently out of date, and almost never linked back to the authority that actually sets the rule.

Road Clarity gathers the same facts from official sources, puts them in one consistent shape for every country, dates them, and links back to the authority each one came from — so you can check any claim yourself rather than take this site’s word for it.

Every country page carries a “last verified” date and links to the primary official source behind it. Official sources come first — national legislation, road and traffic authorities, toll operators, and consular guidance — with motoring associations used as supporting material rather than as the sole basis for a claim. Where a rule genuinely depends on your circumstances, the page says so instead of inventing a single clean answer.

The full source hierarchy, the review cadence, and what that verification date does and doesn’t promise are written up on the sources & methodology page.

Road Clarity is free to use. There are no accounts, no paywall, and nothing on the site is gated. It doesn’t currently display advertisements; if that changes, ads will be kept visually separate from the factual content, and no advertiser, toll operator, or rental company gets any say in what a page states about a rule.

Nothing on the site is a paid placement. The links on country pages point at official authorities because those are the sources the page was written from.

Road Clarity is a trip-preparation tool, not legal advice and not an official government source. Rules change, sometimes at short notice, and posted signs and local authorities always take precedence over anything shown here. Anything time-sensitive — a toll price, a seasonal tire requirement, a fine amount — should be confirmed against the official source linked on the page before you rely on it. The terms of service set out the full disclaimer.

If something here is wrong, outdated, or missing an exception that matters, I would rather hear about it than leave it standing. Corrections are checked against an official source before anything changes — nothing is auto-published.

You can reach me through the contact page, or directly at support.road.clarity@gmail.com.