Assiscorte denunciation the decrease of safety of the exceptional transports on the roads



Assiscorte, the Association Enterprises of Assistance and Escorts to Exceptional Transport associated to the Confetra, has launch an alarm for the decrease of safety of the exceptional transports on the roads determined new the disciplinary one of the field.

Assiscorte, than with other operators of the section is representative of beyond 85% of the total of the attache's to the service of technical escorts to vehicles and exceptional transports, has explained that they give about a year for transport exceptional escorts are not more than competence of the police forces, that they can be involved single in case of closing total of the roads. In the other cases they take part of the authorized enterprises of transports that have obtained the qualification. According to the association, as a result of the effectiveness in these days of Disciplining for the technical escorts, the parameters of street safety are put to hard test.

In particular, between the main critical points of the modification to I decree, Assiscorte has emphasized the difficulty to maintain the canons of street safety, considered that the new directive see again the composition of the escorts and reduces the number of drivers/average employees. Moreover Prefecture has evidenced the lack of controls by the Polstrada/, the tightening-up of the provisions for the suspension of the authorizations and pecuniary endorsements and the obligation of examination for I renew of the qualification, instead previewing training courses.

In a letter sent to the minister of the Inside, Roberto Maroni, and minister of Infrastructures and Trasporti, Altero Matteoli, Assiscorte has asked to always preview a driver (or a qualified second) as minimal composition for the escorts to the exceptional transports, to preview a database of authorized enterprises and the qualified ones in order to afford to the Polstrada controls in real time, see again completely the previewed endorsements that - second the association - they are at the best of the unconstitutionality and to introduce a training course with frequency obligation.

Assiscorte has remembered that also the Confetra (General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics), on behalf of the associations interested, had asked dispositions on disciplining more restrictive that took into consideration the operating truth and for the guarantee of street safety.