The main topic of the workshop taking place on 29 March at 10 00 AM will be "Parking Areas Meeting COVID-19 Challenges for Road Haulers". Within this context, we will be discussing the lack of truck parking areas within Europe, the essential role transport has played...
UETR together with SMEunited sent a letter to the European Commission on restrictions introduced by Germany to those haulers entering from Austria, Czech Republic and France requested to produce a negative COVID test. This is against the EU Green Lanes and all EU Council's recommendations. The letter...
UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia intervened at a joint web seminar on the Mobility Package jointly organised by MEP Mr. I. Ertug and ETF on 24 February 2021. The event discussed the results of the recent Ricardo study on the potential environmental impact of the obligation...
UETR expresses great concern about Brexit and COVID 19 and their impact on road haulers SMEs. Whatever the outcome of the Brexit negotiations might be, customs and border checks will come into place on the 1st of January 2021. In the last days several kilometers long...
UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia will present road transport SMEs perspective and practices at the European Workshop "Craft and SMEs VET NET Open European Workshop - The future challenges of European Continuing Vocational Education and Training after COVID 19” on 10 November. The event falls...
On 16 September 2020 UETR on behalf of SMEUnited intervened in a hearing of the social partners, organised by the European Commission, on the future EU strategy for sustainable and smart mobility. UETR underlined the continuing existence of very large disparities in costs for road...
UETR, sectoral member of SMEunited and the Transport Forum, supports the letter to the Brexit negotiators on the necessity to promptly reach an agreement defining the framework for the future EU-UK relations. EU and UK SMEs are concerned that there is still no progress in...
UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia attended the kick off meeting of the SMEUnited Task Force on the Green Deal on 4 February in Brussels. UETR is part of the Task Force as road transport will have a key role to play to achieve the objectives...
UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia and UETR President Julio Villaescusa intervened in the panel discussion on Europe at the 61st Congress of French Road Haulers Association UNOSTRA. French policy makers and CPME the national SME Association also exchanged to present influence actions to the European...
UETR was at the ESPORG European Conference on Safe and Secure Truck Parkings on 7 November in Brussels.UETR Secretary General Marco Digioia intervened in the panel discussion providing the haulers' perspective and how UETR wishes to see secure truck parking progress.We have to address the...
