Vision

UETR is dedicated to defending and promoting the interests of MSMEs in the road transport sector at the European Union level. Together, we lobby for a sound EU policy for the next decade. Together, we work towards a stronger, more flexible, competitive and sustainable road transport sector in which our members are confidently able to face current and future challenges.

More specifically, we are committed:

To creating a well-maintained and fully-integrated transport network able to deal with the challenges of the 21st century

To improving the levels of service, road safety and competitiveness at affordable costs

To achieve this goal, we are dedicated to:

Eliminating excessive regulation and administrative burdens

Strengthening the capacity of professional associations to provide SME support and information dissemination

Supporting new technologies ensuring sustainability and competitiveness

Increasing road capacity

Improving harmonisation of legislation at national and EU level

Monitoring adverse developments in the sector

Developing response strategies

Mobilising all necessary financial resources

Eliminating excessive regulation and administrative burdens

Strengthening the capacity of professional associations to provide SME support and information dissemination

Supporting new technologies ensuring sustainability and competitiveness

Increasing road capacity

Improving harmonisation of legislation at national and EU level

Monitoring adverse developments in the sector

Developing response strategies

Mobilising all necessary financial resources

Keeping the road haulage market fair, competitive and sustainable is fundamental to us.

PRIORITIES

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Public Customs Services

  • Ensure level playing field and fair competition for all operators throughout the European Union, to continue contributing to the real economy in a sustainable way
  • Reduce administrative and fiscal burden for small transport businesses
  • Set clear, workable and uniform EU legislation and ensure harmonised and effective enforcement, factoring the “Think Small First” principle into EU policies and legislation
  • Ensure equal treatment of all modes of transport
  • Foster access to credit and public financial support and provide robust scrappage schemes tailored on micro and small companies’ needs for investment in green/smart technologies
  • Sectoral EU policies and legislation to take into account the specificities of each actor in the supply chain and the key role played by road transport SMEs
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Workforce

  • Address the increasing shortage of drivers, raising the attractiveness of the profession through specific EU programmes
  • Address the impact of future technologies (e.g. connected and automated vehicles) on the profession
  • Ensure a proper and effective functioning of the European Labour Authority to ensure current social legislation is properly implemented
  • Support financial support for vocation training and lifelong learning schemes for entrepreneurs and professionals in the sector
  • Provide EU level action to close the gap of social and fiscal disparities across the EU, preventing further fragmentation
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Digitalisation

  • Achieve full deployment of digital technologies in the area of paperless transport for more effective transport operations, EU law enforcement and level playing field
  • Develop EU financial support to help companies in the transition and use of new tools
  • Support full deployment of eCMR and ensure the neutrality of management services and the protection of transport operators’ commercial data, a competitive market where no single provider dominates, the introduction of EU standard requirements and public authority supervision/role in the management of the eCMR platform
  • Address cybersecurity proactively and effectively
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Environment

  • Ensure EU’s energy mix takes into account both users and flows
  • Support EURO VI standard through financial and tax incentives as EURO VI still plays and will play a crucial part in the emission reduction
  • Provide support and accompanying measures to encourage the development of CNG, LNG/NGV and bio NGV, which proved to be quality and reliable fuels that are compatible with road transport sector
  • Develop refuelling station network following a pragmatic approach. There is a threshold to reach for the meshing to be dense enough to meet businesses’ expectations, needs and investment
  • Follow a global approach to carbon footprint, from production to consumption. Common benchmarks are to be put in place to avoid unbalanced competition between EU Member States on energy products
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Infrastructure capacity

  • Improve connectivity and remove existing bottlenecks in current road transport network
  • Address the lack of adequate, safe and secure parking areas for trucks in the EU at an affordable cost for small haulers, balancing national and international needs
  • Monitor implementation of safe and smart road infrastructure policies and legislation
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Brexit

  • Ensure long term and sustainable solutions for road transport connectivity between UK and the EU and conditions allowing companies to keep operating in the UK haulage market

Freight transport in the EU-28 modal split of inland transport modes, 2016

(% of total tonne-kilometres)

Freight transport in the EU-28 modal split based on five transport modes, 2016

(% of total tonne-kilometres)

Employment by Mode of Transport in the EU-28, 2015 (in 1.000)

Fatalities by mode of transport in the EU, 2016

Source: CARE EU road accidents database (updated April 2018)

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