The Ruote Libere road haulage association is also totally dissatisfied with the measures taken for the sector yesterday by the Italian government ( of 19 May 2025). "The world of road haulage - commented the president of Ruote Libere, Cinzia Franchini - had been waiting for a long time a turning point from a legislative point of view, but the regulatory changes recently launched concerning the payment times and compensation for The wait for the loading and unloading of vehicles is yet another catch around the category. Not only are they not taken into account the demands of the many small and medium-sized enterprises bent by a law that has not been applied since its inception, but it even ends up to make the picture worse."

"Needless to say," added Franchini, "that the revision of rules that are now out of time is not just a formal point for hauliers, but we could say that it is the the very prerequisite for the survival of many companies. Without certainty on payment times and without protection regarding waiting in loading and unloading procedures, small and medium-sized enterprises remain strangled. Not only do they further lose but give ground to the illegal economy which, acting on off-market dynamics, he has plenty of time to wait. Yet all this, for the umpteenth time, has not been kept in no consideration by the legislator, who has heard the need to revise the regulatory framework. On payment times, Instead of focusing on tight controls and a reduction in respect to to the two months envisaged, a new tax has been introduced represented by the verification of the Antitrust, activated upon notification. A passage that will inevitably lengthen the real payment times and that we are sure will hardly come activated by hauliers. On the compensation front for The expected loading-unloading of the means of transport has used the reduction of the basic deductible to 1.5 hours as bait and switch to hide the failure to introduce automatic control mechanisms".

"Choices - concluded the president of Ruote Libere - that are grafted into a framework that leaves all the others unchanged problems of the category, from the issue of toll reimbursement, to the knot of the lack of infrastructure, passing through the constant decline towards a de-professionalization that knows no boundaries".