Uiltrasporti urges the government to prevent the new rules from contradict the EU's own objectives in terms of decarbonisation of transport. The union fears that the European Parliament gives green light to the new directive on mega trucks can cause this countervailing effect by penalizing transport Rail Freight ( of 12 March 2024). "The crisis in the rail freight sector caused by the complex global context - said Claudio Tarlazzi and Roberto Napoleoni, Secretary General and Secretary National Union Organisation - represents for the Uiltransport is a major concern. Conflicts high inflationary levels, economic stagnation, represent elements of enormous criticality for the sector, In addition, the start of the construction sites for the construction of the infrastructures envisaged by the PNRR which will cause further disruptions bottles, and the difficulties due to ordinary interventions, and overtime, to the railway network. To truly incentivise the transport of goods by rail - the two secretaries pointed out - in view of the provisions of the 2011 EU White Paper committing Member States to transfer 30% of their transported by road to rail for destinations over 300 km and in 2050 50%, requires regulatory interventions that do not Let's see them realized."

"We hope," Tarlazzi and Napoleoni concluded, "that MIT and the government should take action to ensure that they are field all the necessary and consequential actions to a choice "green" that seems to remain, in fact, only on paper."