
"When the crisis is as bitter and hard as it is,
the current one determined by the increases in diesel prices and
unequal application of compensatory measures for
road transport, thinking that you do not manage it and that therefore you can
solving it alone, it's pure madness." Giulio denounces it
Stoppa, secretary general of Trasportiunito, adding that, "if
then to the non-life account is also added a speculation that allows, to
equal work and kilometres travelled, to halve the
remuneration for those who work in the South,
inevitably the conditions for a situation that risks
lurch out of control".
The road haulage association has therefore returned to
not only the application of the clause for the adjustment of the
cost of diesel which - specifies Trasporto Unito - must "be
automatic, binding, immediately payable and subject to
controls", but it has also turned the spotlight on a market that
- highlights the association - now sees the daily failure,
especially of small road haulage companies, which continue to
travel at a loss and which have now also come into the crosshairs of a
real speculative chain. Especially in the South - explains
Trasportiunita - the bosses, "weak link in the supply chain",
are implementing spontaneous stoppage methods and have already
Cases of vehicles blocked and seized in the stations of
service, because the company that owns or the driver does not
adhered to the detention. "Trasportiunita - continues the secretary
General Stoppa - is against any coercive action,
but is aware that without the restoration of a market, even the
role of trade associations will increasingly become
fragile". "Actions - he specifies - certainly not shareable,
but which make a presence of the State compulsory, on the one hand in the
guarantee of tariffs that effectively take into account the costs of
management, on the other hand, in eliminating the root causes of
spontaneous blocks" which - in the opinion of the association - are
also a consequence of a lack of accessibility to refreshments for
Euro 4 vehicles and below.
Trasportiunita therefore believes that, for these reasons, the
government must implement, without further delay, the proposals
emerged from the States General of Road Transport and intervene with a
Urgent decree.