Tir protest, road transport table on Tuesday. Salvini ready to unlock resources

Roundtable on road transport Tuesday 20 October. The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini cuts the time for the meeting which will take place first in the morning with the national acronyms and then in the afternoon with the local ones. Thus comes confirmation of the date on which the meeting will be brought forward. An attempt to implement solutions after the truck protests which are blocking freight transport especially in the southern areas of the country. Protests that arise from the expensive fuel that has put the entire sector in difficulty. The idea under study, according to what the ministry says, is to release the funds already provided, find new ones and identify paths with the European Union to address road transport.

In the last few hours, discussions with other competent ministers have been feverish and constant to speed up the making available of the 590 million euros already allocated in the budget for the renewal of the companies' vehicle fleet. Due to bureaucratic obstacles, the resources have not yet reached the sector, as announced by Minister Salvini's entourage.

Furthermore, the ongoing work aims to identify additional resources for the road transport fund and for the Marebonus 2026. The objective is to support companies struggling with the increase in costs caused by the ongoing wars and the European taxes on emissions (ETS), as reported by the ministry sources.

Another front on which work continues - again according to ministry sources - is to make the economic resources already allocated to combat high diesel prices "immediately available" and to find further funds to guarantee coverage of the interventions for the whole of 2026, as well as obtaining an extension of the tax credit to 2027 and studying further measures to reduce the impact of price increases on companies in the sector.