Road Transportation

The road transport industry is the backbone of strong economies and dynamic societies. It is therefore legitimate and indispensable to safeguard an industry that is vital to economic growth, social development, prosperity and, ultimately, peace and which plays a crucial role in everyone’s life in industrialised and developing countries alike by meeting the demand for the sustainable mobility of both people and goods.

The road transport industry is indeed instrumental in interconnecting all businesses to all major world markets, driving trade, creating employment, ensuring a better distribution of wealth and uniting mankind. It plays a crucial role in the daily economic and social life of industrialised and developing countries alike. For this reason, any penalty on road transport is an even greater penalty for the economy as a whole.

An important part of the road transport industry’s story is sustainable progress. Trucks, buses, coaches and taxis are safer, more efficient, cleaner and quieter today than ever before. They represent high technology at its best and are here to ensure an even better quality of life than we enjoy today.Trucks are the vital link between producers, businesses and consumers, giving them the freedom to locate wherever they choose thanks to their unparalleled flexibility. That freedom in turn helps to promote a fairer distribution of wealth and jobs between urban and rural areas.

Trucks are the only way to reach most factories, stores, restaurants and homes. They carry everything, from TVs and computers to clothes, medicine, children’s toys, food and construction materials – all along the production chain, to local stores and doorsteps.