ROMA – A few hundred trucks today will remain stationary in Sardinia to protest against the expensive petrol. It is not a strike, the organizations clarify, it is spontaneous protests by autonomous operators who do not intend to “burden themselves with further financial burdens for the inability to cope alone with the record increases in the cost of fuel”, announced Transportunito in a note. The problems of the category will be discussed tomorrow in a meeting between Deputy Minister Teresa Bellanova and the main associations in the sector.
Only thanks to the last minute intervention of many client companies, which have recognized part of the extra costs in the tariff for road haulage, the number of vehicles that will not depart will not be four times greater, assures Transport together. “This happens regardless of any support and coordination – said Maurizio Longo, general secretary of Trasportiunito – provided by our Association on a national level”.
In Cagliari the truck drivers found themselves in front of the port, as well as in Porto Torres and Olbia, and in Nuoro in the industrial area of Pratosardo, but without causing blocks or serious inconveniences, except for traffic slowdowns on the main state roads. The expensive fuel is aggravated, in Sardinia, by the increases in maritime transport. All additional costs that are putting the island’s road haulage companies to the test.
Transport strike, the guarantee commission stopped
The strike guarantee commission two days ago had blocked the road transport strike announced for today, due to the failure to comply with the 25-day advance of the proclamation and the lack of indication of a duration. But Trasportiunito objects that today is a spontaneous protest.
“We are talking about entrepreneurs who, in order to make ends meet, have calculated that it is cheaper not to carry out transport than to fill the tanks of trucks without even having coverage of the cost of fuel, the cost of which has skyrocketed to unsustainable levels. individual choice – reiterates the spokeswoman for Ruote Libera, Cinzia Franchini.Franchini – which has nothing to do with irresponsible protests that we have always condemned, but that comes only from the desire to stem the losses and that also several entrepreneurs adhering to Free Wheels will adopt . As an association we respect this choice and we are close to all those hauliers who find themselves facing a dramatic crossroads in their working life “.
The position of Conftrasporto is very critical: the president Paolo Uggè speaks of “Irresponsibility of a certain part of the representation of the category” which, although small, in recent days had announced an unspecified ‘strike’, then promptly blocked by the Guarantor. “There remains the bewilderment in the face of the inertia of some institutional actors, and all that remains is to hope for an assumption of responsibility by the Head of Government”, says Uggè, who also leads the Federation of Italian Road Haulers.