ITALIAN HAULIERS BEING FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS BY TERRIBLE CONDITIONS AND CUT-THROAT COMPETITION
December 1st, 2008
BY LEE ADENDORFF
IT has been a devastating year for Italian hauliers. In the last 10 months, 8,000 mostly single-vehicle hauliers have left the industry according to Gianni Montalli, president of the National Transport Union (CAN FITA Unione Nazionale Imprese di Trasporto).
He says however the worst is yet to come.
"We have the highest rate in Europe of hauliers folding," Montalli told Commercial Motor. Of the 130,000 active transport companies (including single vehicle owner-drivers) in Italy, Montalli expects that 1 in 12 will no longer be ...
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