(Finance) – It shows no signs of slowing down the crisis of the trailers and semi -trailer sector, which opens the new year with a heavy contraction of 13.7% compared to January 2024. Over the month, 1,035 vehicles driven compared to the 1,199 of the same period of 2024 were registered. It is the photograph taken from the Study and Statistics Center of UNRAE which – on the basis of the registration data provided by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) – has carried out an estimate of the market of tracked vehicles for the month of January 2025 compared to the same month of 2024.
“We see with regret the absence of recovery signals for our sector, still invested by a highly negative trend. Also January marks a clear decline compared to 2024, which in turn had been flexed on the previous year. Without interventions timely support by the executive, the risk is that of a corner of the market “, he warns Michele Mastagni, Coordinator of Trailers groupSemi -trailers and installations of URAE.
“While understanding the Difficulty in which the tax authorities currently pays, we consider adopting concrete measures to ensure stability to the automotive sector. For some time we have been asking the Government to allocate at least 70 million euros in the next four years to encourage the renewal of the drill vehicle park, whose average age is now over 17 years old. The 7.5 million euros foreseen in the last incentive window proved to be, once again, insufficient and will not help trigger a significant recovery “,
He underlines again.
“Finally, as repeatedly reiterated to the competent administrations, it is essential to intervene on the secondary legislation of the highway code which currently prevents circulation in our country of self -articles of maximum length up to 18.75 meters.
The introduction of these vehicles would bring considerable advantages both in terms of competitiveness for companies that of road safety “, concludes Mastagni.