Transport asks drivers for collaboration to monitor loading and unloading times
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has asked road freight transporters for their collaboration to monitor loading and unloading platforms and know their waiting times in real time. Among the measures agreed upon last year between the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC) and the ministry, one of those not yet executed concerned carrying out a field study on waiting times at loading and unloading centers. in order to quantify the cost of inefficiencies in this area and define what regulatory measures may be necessary, as expressly stated in the aforementioned agreement.
Fenadismer denounces that the inefficiencies have worsened until reaching five hours of delay
To implement this measure and find out the situation of the waits that transporters suffer daily in Spain, the General Directorate of Land Transport has reported that it has already launched the aforementioned study in real time, through an Agency application. of the European Union for the Galileo Space Program that is currently used to report waiting times at border crossings, and that will be used to verify the current situation of loading and unloading platforms and centers. To this end, a selection has been made of the main logistics platforms spread throughout Spain from the different economic sectors (food, steel, chemical, courier, automotive, port, oil, retail, airport and others).
For this reason, the ministry headed by Raquel Sánchez “requires the collaboration of Spanish transporters,” according to Fenadismer in a statement. To participate, drivers will simply have to download an application on their mobile phone and continue carrying out their activity as before, “since it automatically monitors waiting times” when they access the loading and unloading centers, without the carrier having to carry carry out any action. Fenadismer already published a ranking of the logistics platforms in the food sector where the most inefficiencies and waiting times occurred. This situation, according to the federation, “has been getting worse in recent years, reaching up to five hours of delay in some cases.” According to Fenadismer, “in addition to very seriously affecting the internal organization of the activity of transport companies, with the consequent increases in production costs, it forces an unnecessary increase in the transport fleet by up to 20% to be able to adequately attend to the transportation demand.
