In the absence of regular adjustments to transport tariffs due to the increase in the price of diesel, every month missing 250 million euros from the coffers of the companies of road transport. This is denounced by Trasportiunito, which proposes that it is not so remote a truck stoppage due to lack of diesel caused by the increase in the price of fuel and not so much by the crisis, albeit ongoing, in imports of oil and products from part of Italy.

Highlighting that the now emergency shortage of liquidity that has affected road transport is of such seriousness that it make a blockchain reaction now highly probable of transport services, the association asks the government for a real and their own U-turn and no more refreshments after months of distance or tax credits, albeit important. The secretary General of Trasportiunito, Giulio Stoppa, specifies that the emergency "It requires immediate solutions not to deal with the increase in prices of diesel fuel, but to prevent this from translating into an injection lethal for road haulage companies".

And the solution also in the face of fuel card ceilings which have not been adjusted to the escalation in the price of diesel - according to Trasportiunita - can be only one today: the immediate approval of an urgent decree-law on fuel surcharge, which intervenes in the discipline provided for in Article 83 bis precisely on the fuel surcharge by making automatic, public, verifiable and mandatory adjustment of the fee of the transport. "The goal - explains Stoppa - is not introduce a new public contribution, but it is to make so that the market automatically recognizes the change in a objective and verifiable cost like that of fuel".

To this end, Trasportiunita has proposed a system that provides for the establishment and publication by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of an annual base price of diesel fuel, valid as a reference for contracts signed in during the year. Amount to be updated later on the basis of of the official fuel price surveys, with a fortnightly periodicity. For the association, to this parameter a percentage of incidence of fuel on the cost of transport fixed by law to the extent of 30%, preventing each individual business relationship from becoming a new negotiation on the percentage to be recognized. Therefore, the change in the price of diesel must automatically produce the corresponding change in the transport fee, both in increase is decreasing. Trasportiunita also believes that the adjustment must be shown separately on the invoice, so that that the carrier, the customer and the control bodies can verify immediately the parameter used and the calculation carried out. A control this system, the Revenue Agency and the Authority Competition and Market Authority, according to the respective skills.