Trucks and tractors, the protest in the south does not stop and diesel fuel flies to 2.3 euros

The protest of hauliers and farmers against expensive fuel does not stop in the south while the average price of diesel fuel continues to soar, reaching, according to Mimit data, close to 2.3 euros per liter on the motorway network in self-service mode (2.296) and 2.257 on the road network. A further increase which, according to Codacons estimates, increases the average price of diesel by almost 40% more than last year. Even today, trucks and heavy vehicles and tractors have patrolled some strategic points of the road network in Calabria, Sicily and Puglia, with Calabria seeing around fifteen garrisons for the protest proclaimed by Fedralog, the regional logistics federation, in which around 400 vehicles are participating and with 60% of the members stationary in the squares according to the organisation's estimates.

From the street we are watching with great attention what will happen next week, when the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini will meet the main road haulage acronyms in Milan before a meeting will be held at the ministry in Rome on the 27th. For Unatras, the advance is positive but should only concern the national organizations present in the Register of hauliers, but it is Salvini himself who opens up the possibility of a meeting also with Calabrian, Sicilian and Apulian hauliers. Speaking on the phone this morning with one of the demonstrators at the Poggio Imperiale toll booth (Foggia), thanks to the intermediation of the Apulian regional councilor and provincial secretary of the League, Napoleone Cera, in fact, the minister recalled that on the 20th, there will be the institutional technical table with trade unions and trade associations, adding "I can convene another table with you, a meeting dedicated to the South, starting from a delegation from Puglia, Calabria and Sicily".

And this is what they hope for in the three regions. In Calabria, as in Puglia, the hauliers have already announced their intention to bring their vehicles to Rome in the absence of concrete answers - "words are no longer enough" they repeat in chorus - while the Sicilian ones have reiterated that if the minister agrees to meet them on 20 October - a request addressed directly to Salvini also by the Sicilian governor Renato Schifani - the stoppage will be lifted, otherwise it will continue until the 27th. An appeal to the government to intervene and do soon which also comes from the Episcopal Conference of Basilicata and the metropolitan mayors of the Anci Coordination.