Russo (Conftrasporto), without government responses there is a risk of national shutdown

"We ask the government for an urgent ad horas convocation of the road haulage associations, otherwise we will have to resort to the evaluation of a national shutdown and the country will come to a standstill". Thus the president of Conftrasporto, Pasquale Russo, told ANSA.

"The situation is very worrying because the excess price that road haulage is suffering has generated a situation of high tension among transport companies which has resulted in spontaneous protests in some areas of the country, protests which are spreading in these hours because we have news that other hauliers from other areas, especially in Southern Italy, are organizing themselves to set up road blocks", explains Russo, underlining that they are "spontaneous protests, ungoverned and not proclaimed by the transport associations category, which makes the picture even more disturbing because it means that we are moving in the context of entrepreneurs' desperation."