Increase the freight transport share of the mode is important, but in Italy road transport remains central to ensuring national mobility and international commodity. This is underlined by the president of Federlogistica, Davide Falteri, bringing as an example "a figure for everyone: including by building all railway infrastructure planned or in the pipeline, from the Terzo Valico to the Naples-Bari, from the Brenner to the Turin-Lyon high-speed train - he explains - the share of goods that would be able to move from roads to railways would vary from 2.5 to 3.5%. Certainly - Falteri points out - an important result but not such as to shift the axis of mobility in our country where only 12% of goods travel by train and (with the exception of the motorways of the sea) the rest is exclusive competence of road transport".

"It is not our job - continues the president of Federlogistica - we stand as champions of road transport, but it is that of signaling a risk looming over the country system: a preferred time to the railways, which continue to lose shares of traffic, due to greater operational flexibility, today the trucks are chosen because they operate on tariff levels very low prices incompatible with the survival of companies and especially with security. An important indication is arrived in these days from a real "roundup" carried out by the Traffic Police in Veneto and Friuli: out of 300 vehicles 200 were sanctioned, in three cases the drivers have been arrested."

"What Federlogistica intends to do - he further specifies Falteri - is not a union campaign, but a report to the government: the backbone of the mobility of goods in Italy - he underlines - risks collapsing both for dwarfism and for the methodical violation of legal and therefore for the state of health of companies in the sector that have become taxable persons in a country that pursues the myth of the modal shift often not even knowing what we are talking about."

Meanwhile, the association Ruote Libere - L'Autotrasporto contests The outcome of the meeting on 3 April with the associations of road haulage convened by the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure and Transport. "In the end - denounces the president of Ruote Libere, Cinzia Franchini - it's all gone As expected: the government has put in place the additional resources for road transport, translated the resources that the associations manage and from which they indirectly live, and magically associations themselves have changed their face and have gone from ventilated declarations of detention a few days ago to the usual condescension full of "satisfaction" towards of the executive". Franchini recalls that the meeting, at which he did not neither Minister Salvini nor the deputy took part Minister Rixi, concluded with an agreement on the allocation of resources for the sector: to 228 million euros for three years (the famous 12 less - he recalls - than those of last year, reason for which some organizations had shown themselves to be on the war) a figure of 590 million euros was added aimed at renewing the vehicle fleet.

So - specifies the president of Ruote Libere - for expenses not documented documents, discounts on tolls, training will go all the same amount of previous years while investments for the renewal of the an ad hoc fund will be dedicated to the park. "It is It was enough - he observes - to confirm the privileges of which indirectly associations also benefit from completely changing the opinion of almost all the associations that sit in the Register, made except for Trasportiunito, on the government's work towards the sector. We have gone from announcements of mobilizations to a agreement in the blink of an eye. Miraculously, the themes that always bend the sector, from deprofessionalization, to unbridled competition, to the problems of the infrastructure network, to the mafia roots, have disappeared from the agenda of discussion. Also with regard to the updating of the regulations that regulate the "loading and unloading times" and the " of payment" we are sure that always the usual "leopards" they will once again be able to do damage by changing for the worse the current situation and creating false expectations".

"The associations that should represent the hauliers - concludes Franchini - have obtained what wanted, in particular on the issue of toll reimbursement, and immediately are said to be satisfied. This epilogue once again demonstrates the need to unhinge the absurd system that even today leads the State to pay, with public resources, the discounts motorway traffic due to hauliers through the Consortia of services, which retain important percentages, many of which are emanating from or refer directly to the same associations. Healing this distortion would mean putting in place a Copernican revolution that would make it possible to liberate resources for the real problems of the sector and not for those related to the survival of associations".