That the regulation on waiting times at /unloading, introduced by the latest infrastructure decree, would create tensions among the players in the logistics supply chain has been evident for some time. This perspective must be used to read a recent note issued by Confartigianato Trasporti to underline the non-derogability of the new law.
The initiative was born to counter some “widespread false normative reconstructions” and “derogatory practices to escape the new rules”, with the intent to “clarify and re-establish the truth about what happened”.
For Confartigianato “the rules on waiting times for loading and unloading goods and payment times were supported and desired to correct those distortions, which have now often become established practice, of considering road haulage the weak link in a chain on which to unload the inefficiencies of the logistics sector and, at the same time, it is asked to be performing and ‘cost little’. It is good to highlight, for the benefit of all, that the situation that has been created is unsustainable and incompatible with the signing of National Collective Labor Agreements (Ccnl) and collective labor agreements, with legality and safety protocols for workers and drivers, with road safety, with the respect of social regulations”.
According to the association, therefore, the rule that provides for the payment to the haulier of 100 euros per hour for waits exceeding 90 minutes must be considered “a fundamental piece in building a supply chain relationship in which all subjects are valued, starting with the hauliers who are those who guarantee the mobility of goods and the supply and replenishment of industries, production sites, logistics, distribution centers of any type of goods. This is why Confartigianato Trasporti believes it is essential that all players in the supply chain, primarily the hauliers, work for the full application of the regulatory prescriptions and consider them a great trade union achievement to the full advantage of market regularity, to protect the health of workers and road and social safety. The rules in question are directly applicable and effective and, by the precise will of the legislator, not derogable from the contractual autonomy of the parties”.
Similar concepts were expressed in a subsequent note from Federlogistica Conftrasporto: “The amendments introduced by Law /2025 represent an indispensable protection for the regularity, professional safety and economic sustainability of road transport companies. All too often carriers have been forced to accept extreme operating conditions and waiting times incompatible with an efficient and competitive system. The rule finally imposes a principle of fairness and responsibility along the entire supply chain”.
And the Ligurian road haulage associations Aliai – Assotir – Cna Fita – Confartigianato Trasporti – Lega Cooperative – Trasportounito have directly addressed in a letter to Assarmatori, Assiterminal, Assologistica, Confitarma, Federagenti, Federlogistica, Fedespedi. “The regulation is clear and does not admit interpretations. The provisions are of a non-derogable nature and constitute a fundamental safeguard to protect the regularity and professional safety of hauliers and the economic sustainability of sector companies and therefore evasive practices or attempts to delay the effective application will not be accepted. Furthermore, any non-compliance will be subject to immediate reporting to the Central Committee of the Register of Road Hauliers (Albo degli Autotrasportatori) and the Authority for Competition and the Market (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato)”. In the absence of responses from the supply chain, they threatened “mobilization and protest actions to defend the rights of road transport companies and workers”.
