The Spanish Confederation of Freight Transport (CETM), together with the CNTC, have transferred to the Department of Promotion of Competition of the National Commission of Markets and Competition, their concern for the abuse and helplessness suffered by transport companies against The generality of its customers.

Both associations argue that customers take advantage of the fragility of a sector that, despite its enormous strategic value as a collective, has a very weak and atomized business fabric, without the advantages generated by the economy at scales and costs, and that it does not have the necessary regulatory tools to defend itself in a transport market that is completely hostile to them.

During the meeting, the CNMC emphasized that it is declared absolutely contrary to the practices that have been shown to them as usual in the sector, such as certain down-payment auctions or payment terms exceeding those established by law.

For this reason, the CNMC has expressed itself in favor of carrying out a study of the transport market that allows determining the existence of a position of the loaders, as it happened in the agricultural sector, and that justified the implementation in protection measures similar to those taken then. For its part, the CETM believes that the problem will only be solved with the implementation of a rule that prohibits and fines those shippers who pay an abusively low price.

Consequently, he urges the Ministry of Development to work together, also with the collaboration of the CNMC, in the preparation of the study, to change certain practices.

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Rise in the annoyement with the ITV

By Admin_AlmeriSan on

8 January, 2019

- Noticia

The associations of transporters that make up the National Road Transport Committee have formally addressed the Ministry of Industry to convey the “discomfort” of the sector “with the protocols established for the tractor trucks in terms of measuring the effectiveness of braking It refers, given that in many cases the unfavorable rating to the tractors is not due to a problem of the vehicle but that the ITV facilities are not adjusted as they should, Fenadismer reports.

From the organization they communicate that: “when a tractor with air intakes and without being coupled to a semitrailer is presented to the periodic review, the equipment envisaged to perform the braking test (rollers), is not able to make an adequate reading of the parameters of the vehicle when it is ejected by the rollers “.

The response from the ITV station is that although they recognize that it may not be a defect of the vehicle, it is necessary that it is presented coupled to a semi-trailer with a certain level of load, relate from the collective chaired by Julio Villaescusa. “In fact, without intervening in the brakes of the rejected vehicle, it is presented coupled and the result is usually favorable,” they reveal.

In the statement written by the National Committee to the Undersecretary of Industry, he is told that “a good part of the carriers in our country do not provide their services with a complete set of vehicles, but the commercial relationship they maintain with their shipper is in the modality of ‘enganche’, only the transporter contributing its tractor unit, therefore, they do not have their own semi-trailers or load available to be able to present their vehicles to the periodic technical inspection. These transporters, who have opted for the installation of additional air intakes in their vehicles, depending on the ITV stations facilities are rejected their vehicles and have to go with a semi-trailer under a loan or rent, with the consequent risk and expense , without, in our opinion, it is your responsibility that you do not have the proper equipment to be able to finish the braking efficiency with the uncoupled vehicle “.

From Fenadismer remember that since the implementation of the new braking measurement system seven years ago, cases of error have increased which has increased damage and inconvenience to carriers, especially in the case of tractors.

Europe press ahead the brands with the emissions

By Admin_AlmeriSan on

31 December, 2018

- Noticia

The Council of the European Union, the body in which the member countries agree on the content of the community regulations, decided at its meeting on December 20 to propose to the Commission and the European Parliament that in 2025 both trucks and new buses reduce by 15% its CO2 emissions in relation to those registered during the year 2019, and for the year 2030 a mandatory reduction of 30% is fixed. Thus, the Board is stricter than the Commission, which was responsible for this initiative, to set the limit of 30% by 2030 as definitive, unless otherwise decided in the revision that will be made of this regulation in the year 2022; On the other hand, the Commission proposal was not binding.

However, the general approach reached within the Council reduces the pretensions of the European parliamentarians, who asked for reductions of 20% and 35%. As reported by ACEA, the European association of vehicle manufacturers, the first meeting between the three institutions: Council, Commission and Parliament, which have to agree on the final limits, is scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, 2019, as the Presidency Romanian Council has given priority to the completion of the processing of this regulation, which is to be approved during the first quarter of 2019. The members of ACEA are not particularly happy with this decision.

The regulation will include an economic penalty for those manufacturers that do not meet the objectives of reducing CO2 emissions. Keep in mind, that from 2019 brands have to produce a statement of CO2 emissions of virtually every heavy vehicle they sell, information that will be taken as a reference to set the limits of 2025 and 2030. An incentive system, called super-credits, will also be established, whereby vehicles with low and zero emissions will be counted as more than one vehicle when calculating the specific emissions of a truck manufacturer.

Faced with the proposal of the Commission, the Council has decided to exclude buses and coaches from this incentive system. According to the Commission, with the agreement reached between 15 and 35%, between 2020 and 2030, 54 million tonnes of CO2 will be emitted. Currently, CO2 emissions from heavy vehicles, including trucks, buses and coaches, account for approximately 6% of total CO2 emissions in the EU and approximately 25% of total CO2 emissions from road transport.

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The problem of coal a headache for transport

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27 December, 2018

- Noticia

The Government is determined to fight against climate change, and the electricity companies have chosen the middle way: to dismantle the thermal power plants, which are the main generators of electricity in our country. But they are not the only ones who will be harmed by this decision. Transportation has a lot to say about it. Coal production is on the way to disappearing in Spain and, with it, some thousand transport jobs.

As it happens in other sectors, when a productive activity disappears, it also takes all the economic activity that it generates (it happens with the automobile factories, the alimentary production, industrial, etc.). And here is no exception. The mining basins of Asturias, León, Palencia or Teruel are in danger of extinction. And all because the European Union decided, some time ago, to cut public aid to mining. Not only that: the electricity companies have also decided to close the thermal power plants that are supplied with coal (both domestic and imported), because they have to comply with the limitations imposed by Brussels to reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. It is true that there are many ways to do it, but companies such as Endesa or edp (formerly Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico) have decided that the quickest is to close.

José Antonio Casillas is a Minas technical engineer and transport entrepreneur. He has a company dedicated to the transport of coal, so he is aware that his future is in the air. In the first place, he wants to make one thing clear: the decarbonization process is not to end up with coal, but with the carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere. In other words, the European Union has proposed a series of limits that must be met to pollute less. But it is the utilities that have taken the decision to close the thermal power plants, to which the Spanish Government has not raised any objection.

The associations of freight transport by road of Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y León and Galicia integrated in the CETM are very concerned about the favorable position of the central Government to the decarbonization of the energy sector and the suppression of thermal plants in Spain. For these organizations, which represent some 1,000 vehicles that work daily in the coal and thermal sectors, suppressing the plants in Spain would also generate serious indirect consequences for the transport sector in these autonomous communities, with few outlets for work and already deindustrialized.

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The European Parliament proposes a 35% reduction in heavy vehicles carbon dioxide by 2030

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11 December, 2018

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The European Parliament has approved this Wednesday by 373 votes in favor, 285 against and 16 abstentions, a notable cut to the pollution for which the trucks are responsible, which should reduce their CO2 emissions by 20% in 2025, and 35 % in 2030 in relation to the 2019 level. The measure represents a step forward so that for the first time the European Union will stop the emissions of trucks, until now exempt from regulations that would impose borders. For final approval, the rules must be discussed by the Member States and re-voted by the European Parliament.

Trucks represent only 5% of the vehicles that circulate on European roads, but are responsible for 22% of the total emissions from this type of transport. The new norm tries to shorten in part this abyss by eliminating from the air that Europeans breathe a good portion of polluting particles. Brussels talks about a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of 54 million tons between 2020 and 2030, the equivalent of all those launched in a year Sweden, a country of 10 million inhabitants.

The European Commission proposed in May some thresholds of 15 and 30% for 2025 and 2030 respectively, which now the European Parliament has hardened. Brussels has insisted that the change will be beneficial, not only in the environmental aspect, but also for transport companies, many of them SMEs, given that they will spend around 5,000 euros less per year in fuel, a section that represents 30% of your invoice.

The automotive industry does not see it clearly. He does not deny that there is a transformation in progress, but he fights so that the bar is not so high. “Increasing the objectives increases the risks given that the regulation goes beyond what is technically feasible in this segment of vehicles,” says Sigrid de Vries, general secretary of CLEPA, the European employer association of automotive suppliers. His offer has been light years ahead of the decision of the MEPs. The manufacturers were in favor of a drop in emissions of 7% in 2025 and 16% in 2030.

The ACEA, the organization that includes the seven largest European truck manufacturers DAF, Daimler, Iveco, MAN, Scania, Volkswagen and Volvo, has shown its concern for what it estimates, a too ambitious leap. The entity already considered the figures of the European Commission difficult to implement, reason why it has described the new levels of “excessively aggressive”. The association fears its effects for competitiveness, and trusts that member countries will retouch those objectives to the downside. “MEPs seem to be unabashedly ignoring the fact that the electrification potential of the truck fleet is much less than that of cars, due to problems such as extremely high initial costs, limited autonomy, insufficient infrastructure, in particular along the motorways, and also the reluctant customers, “criticized its secretary general, Erik Jonnaert.

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The sales of industrial vehicles rise 9,3%

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19 November, 2018

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The sales of used industrial vehicles (trucks, buses, derivatives and vans ‘pick-ups’, medium commercial vehicles and tractor trucks) reached a volume of units of 314,185 units in the first ten months of the year, which represents an increase of 9, 3% compared to the same period of the previous year.

According to the data of the National Association of Dealers in Motor Vehicles, Repair and Spare Parts, the companies of the vehicles of less than the years of antiquity, we experienced a response of 31.8% in said period, while those of the models of Between 3 and 5 years rose by 42.2%, those between 5 and 10 years in contrast, fell by 15.5% and those of ten years increased by 7.5%. The data for January and October.

By market segment, bus sales stood at 3,136 units, down 0.8%, while the sale of 22,226 trucks on the occasion of an increase of 19.6%, 7,449 medium trucks, which is a 5, 4% more; 2,250 light trucks 3.1% less; 123,025 commercial media, 7.5% more; 9,231 ‘pick ups’, 15.5% more and 139,342 derivatives and vans, 9.9% more than in the same period of the previous year.

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