If Ruote Libere attributes responsibility to the government the increase in motorway tolls that weighs on the hauliers ( of 30 December 2025), the trade union association Trasportiunita la attributes to the recent pronouncements of the Constitutional Court and of the Transport Regulation Authority, with the first that declared the provisions of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport who have postponed the deadlines for the adjustment of motorway tolls for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, pending the update of the plans economic and financial aspects of motorway concessionaires, and with the which has resolved to update the tariffs.

For the secretary general of Trasportiunito, Maurizio Longo, it is "It is easy to deliberate and pronounce, comfortably seated in a luxurious office or from the seat of the Constitutional Court. But hauliers, who have been suffering the consequences for years now of the construction sites on the motorway (the result of a twenty-year delay in the - said Longo - these comforts in the queue On the highways you can't even dream of them. Even just thinking in a situation of permanent and chronic discomfort as the current one, to authorize and then apply generalized increases of tolls of an average of 1.5% sounds like a real slap and break the guard limit. Any business road haulage - he added - is a daily witness of a situation that is now unsustainable, especially in some quadrants of the motorway network. And it is grotesque to talk about increases in tolls to "proceed with the updating of the Plans of the rich concessionaire companies", trampling on the efficiency and productivity of the transport of goods'.

"The government - underlined the secretary general of Trasportiunita - had promised a temporary freeze on price increases, but Now he has to bow to those who don't even know what the market and the damage is that an obtuse policy of management of concessions and network maintenance is causing, authorizing a measure that it would serve to offset the inflation forecast for 2026. But the damage to the trucking that moves 80% of the goods for the system production of the country and the entire logistics chain - concluded Longo - who pays them?".

From the opposition, the Democratic Party denounced the Minister Salvini's attempt to shift responsibility of the increase in tolls on the Constitutional Court: "now - commented yesterday the vice-president of the Transport Committee and the leader of the PD group in the Environment Commission, Andrea Casu and Marco Simiani - even the MIT press releases certify the total failure of Matteo Salvini as Minister of Transport. This time in the clumsy and ignoble attempt to mask his inability and to offload the responsibility on the Constitutional Court of the price increases on motorways, which will weigh on the pockets of all citizens who will travel, inflicts another blow on the trucking, already struggling with the sting contained in the maneuver of the Meloni-Salvini government, between an increase in excise duties on diesel and a new national tax of two euros on parcels. But it is the fault of the judges - they pointed out Casu and Simiani - if Salvini doesn't know how to be a minister? If all that that he tries to do does it badly and systematically gets the result contrary to what he had declared he wanted to achieve? Also this time to pay the hefty bill of having the Meloni government Europe's worst transport minister will be citizens and workers".