Road transport is totally dissatisfied with the outcome of the meeting with Deputy Minister Bellanova

The representatives of the hauliers are disappointed to the outcome of today's meeting by video conference with the deputy Minister for Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility, Teresa Bellanova. "While appreciating the willingness to comparison by Deputy Minister Bellanova - commented Unatras, the coordination of the major associations of road transport in Italy, at the end of the meeting - we evaluate government statements not adapted to the state of difficulty in which the sector pours. In a situation of strong crisis such as the current one, it would have been necessary to provide solutions immediate, have precise and concrete answers, in order to avoid initiatives, even spontaneous, on the part of the category, which probably in some areas they can be organized in shape autonomous'. Specifying that, despite dissatisfaction with the lack of certainties, Unatras hopes that already in the next few hours the government will be able to find emergency solutions, the coordination of road transport associations has made noto has already convened for next Monday the committee executive to evaluate and take necessary initiatives and resulting from the state of crisis in which the sector finds itself.

For Transportunited, the government provided "responses from the all inadequate in relation to the severity of the crisis of Italian road transport as proof - complained the secretary general, Maurizio Longo - of a substantial unpreparedness and of a poor knowledge of the problems they are rapidly leading to the point of no return a strategic sector for mobility of goods in Italy'. According to Longo, "we continue to ignore the structural nodes of road transport, first and foremost the urgent need to "overturn" on the goods higher costs literally exploded due to the increase in prices of fuel'.

Specifying that Bellanova has confirmed the assignment to the category of 240 million euros for interventions similar to the years previous, second - underlined Longo - a distribution linked to old schemes, the Secretary General of Trasportounito has added that 'some of the answers given on the price increases are not sufficient to attenuate the voltage generated by the sharp increases in fuel and in any case until a automatism that overturns with certainty the higher costs on the goods, road haulage undertakings will not be able to do business, generate useful economy and therefore less and less attentive to compliance costly safety provisions, maintenance and qualification'. Longo denounced a "general unpreparedness both with regard to the introduction of provision in immediate degree of correcting old provisions that do not have ever worked (expected pay at loading/unloading, times of payment) and to the rule of law that provides for the adaptation of transport tariffs when changes in the price of the fuel exceeds 2%. The unpreparedness - he concluded - is it has also been demonstrated by the inactivity of the government in the application of the European Union mobility package which will come into force in the coming days worsening the conditions of Italian road transport".

Also for Ruote Libere - Road transport, the meeting, to which not participated, it was completely unsatisfactory both for the outcome that for the lack of capacity of the organizations present at the table to support the demands of road transport. "Despite the dramatic emergency that the sector is experiencing for months, accentuated by the disproportionate rise in diesel - it has said the spokesperson of Ruote Libere Cinzia Franchini - the table The ministerial ministry has not produced any concrete action today. Such reality is yet another sign on the one hand of how much the trade associations are disconnected with the reality that they are called to represent, on the other hand, their incapacity to bring home essential measures for survival the same as road haulage undertakings.' "The same associations that a few days ago rejoiced for the umpteenth millionaire allocation on the subject of training - he added Franchini - today they watch impassively the paralysis of the government. The hauliers who every day touch the problems of the continue to guarantee the transport service and the impossibility to make ends meet, take note that this is the representation that is offered to them in Italy. For our part, remembering that Ruote Libere does not sit at the trucking table with the government, we continue to ask Deputy Minister Bellanova an immediate measure that allows immediately to amortize the increase in fuel through a sterilization of the cost at the pump and through the elimination of VAT on excise duties. If really bellanova has not forgotten the sacrifices that our sector is called to intervene urgently, words and the reassurances - concluded Franchini - are now completely useless'.