(Finance) – Double-digit decline in the last month of the year, after the positive result in November, both for the truck and towed vehicle sectors. In December 2023, 1,832 registration certificates were issued for new trucks (-28.2% compared to December 2022) and 870 registration certificates for new heavy trailers and semi-trailers, i.e. with a gross vehicle weight greater than 3,500 kg (-32.3% ), divided into 95 trailers (-20.2%) and 775 semi-trailers (-33.6%). In the whole of 2023 there will be 28,587 registration documents for new trucks, 11.3% more than in 2022, and 15,536 registration documents for new heavy trailers and semi-trailers (-7.9% compared to January-December 2022), broken down as follows: 1,355 trailers (-2.1%) and 14,181 semi-trailers (-8.4%). For trucks, in the whole of 2023 all four geographical areas maintain a positive variation: +18% in the South and Islands area, +11% in the Centre, +9.8% in the North-West and +6.7% the North-East. This was announced by Anfia (National Association of the Automotive Industry).
For the first time in 2023, buses also closed December with a negative change (-22.5%).
“In the truck market – explains Anfia in the note – a significant contraction in registrations was recorded in December which, while not compromising the cumulative result of 2023 compared to the previous twelve months, once again demonstrates the limits of the current discontinuous measures to support the renewal of the fleet which do not produce an effective reduction in the average age of vehicles in circulation”, he comments Luca Sra, Anfia delegate for goods transport. “It is necessary to adopt a structural planning for the ecological transition of the sector which first of all recognizes the contribution to decarbonisation already made today by the latest generation low-emission vehicles powered by natural gas (compressed and liquefied) and diesel engines fully compatible with biofuels, such as biomethane and HVO, and which in perspective supports these with support for the spread of zero-emission vehicles and the related enabling infrastructures”. Lastly, Anfia asks the government “to promptly implement the interventions already planned in support of road transport, accelerate ecobonuses and restore the tax credit on the purchase of capital goods”.