These are the measures that transporters have agreed to avoid bankruptcy in the sector – Market Research Telecast

The carriers will not stop their activity this Monday when the strike called from December 20 to 22 is called off after reaching an agreement with the Government of Pedro Snchez this Friday after a meeting of more than 11 hours. The employers asked the Executive to listen to the historical requests of a sector that has been seriously affected by the impact of the coronavirus crisis and the rise in fuel prices -which in the last year have shot up 40% .

What are the measures that have been achieved to avoid logistical chaos and bankruptcy in the sector? The most important for this sector is the prohibition of the participation of the driver in the loading and unloading with the modification of article 20 of Law 15/2009, of November 11, of the Land Transport of Goods contract.

This claim had already been in Spain for years on the negotiating table of the CNTC and the Ministry. It was not permissible for our professional drivers, after driving 9 hours, to start unloading 20 tons of fruit and vegetables, for example. For a security issue and because it is a job that does not concern them. Our Portuguese neighbors banned it in September and, fortunately, now it is our countrys turn, he explains. Ramon Valdivia, Executive Vice President of the International Road Transport Association (ASTIC).

In addition to the transposition of the directive on posted workers with the limitation of unfair competition from foreign companies of transport in our country; the reduction of waiting times in loading and unloading from 2 hours to 1 hour; fight against unfair competition; creation of a Code of Good Commercial Practices in the contracting of transport; as well as improving the environmental sustainability of the road freight transport sector.

Fuel price

Another of the approved measures that the sector has taken is the mandatory review of the price of transport due to the variation in the price of fuel from the moment of contracting until the actual performance of the transport, eliminating references to voluntariness.

For Spanish transport companies, the energy that moves the trucks, mostly diesel, accounts for more than 30% of their operating costs and the diesel price (excluding VAT) has suffered an increase, from October 2020 to October 2021, of 32.0% , highlights Valdivia. In addition, it must be taken into account that fuel prices have skyrocketed since the beginning of the year and truckers have not been able to pass these increases on to loaders.

The rest of the measures that were signed at the meeting this Friday, lasting more than 11 hours, will not be approved by royal decree law, such as the maintenance of the current deduction of professional diesel or the return of the sanitary cent, as well such as the maintenance of the road network or the call for specific aid for the digitization of the sector.

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