If the Minister and Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport were very satisfied with the measures to introduced with the decree-law approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers, among the various acronyms representing the sector the measures were welcomed by Unatras and FAI-Conftrasporto and very negatively by Trasportiunito.

Specifying that "now we have the facts", the president of Unatras and FAI-Conftrasporti, Paolo Uggè, underlined that "the measures launched by the Government confirm the commitments made by Minister Salvini and mark an important step on the road to shared responsibility between companies and to protect the safety of workers and users of the road". "We welcome the approval of the provision as agreed - added Uggè - and we believe it is essential to continue the constructive dialogue between the social partners, including on those aspects still to be defined which are have been the subject of recent meetings at the ministry". "In waiting for the next meeting with the minister - he concluded - We believe that what has been achieved so far demonstrates the goodness of the path started. Now continuity is needed to give full implementation of agreements and building a more secure future, efficient and sustainable for Italian road transport".

Trasportiunita is very critical, according to which, on the other hand, "the regulatory provisions also relating to payment times and compensation for waiting for loading and unloading vehicles, although they have remained unapplied to date, with the new versions of Law 127/2010 (which do not take into account the proposals put forward by Trasportiunito) will continue not to be applied". For the association, moreover, there is "nothing new under the sun also as regards the payment times of the road haulage services: Trasportiunita - recalled the association - had asked to decrease to 30 days instead of 60, activating an automatic system with regard to controls; and instead an additional bureaucratic element is introduced to to disguise the desire to perpetuate the current distortion of the to the detriment of the weaker subject: the antitrust authority to verify and sanction by receiving a report by the road haulage company which, of course, while waiting for the Antitrust judgment will lose money and jobs".

"Even worse - Trasportiunita then noted - is the effect of the provision providing for compensation for waiting loading and unloading of means of transport. In addition to the reduction of the basic deductible by 1.5 hours and the increase of the hourly value of € 100.00, for 2025, the total absence of adequate control mechanisms". The association complained that during the meetings it had other types of regulatory intervention that have been "punctually and totally ignored by the institutions such as service tariffs, better regulation of sub-vections in addition to the facilitation in the event of an injunction from the payment'.

"In parallel with the market regulations for which Titles exist but they have not worked for decades - he denounced Maurizio Longo, Secretary General of Trasportiunita - we had asked for measures to improve the enabling conditions of the drivers, better criteria for the highway code and interventions serious road safety between infrastructures, rest areas and securing the load. Answer? Nothing."