The Commercial Agents of Confcommercio Reggio Calabria relaunch the appeal of the FNAARC national president Alberto Petranzan on the need to overcome the logic of continuous extensions and identify structural interventions for those who use the car as a work tool.
The further extensions of the diesel discount have temporarily attenuated the impact of the price increases, but confirm the need to offer greater certainty to professionals and businesses who depend on mobility on a daily basis.
“We fully share the position expressed by President Petranzan: those who work in cars cannot live on extensions. Now that more targeted measures are being discussed, we ask that commercial agents and representatives are also considered among the subjects to be protected”, declares Antonio Gentile, territorial representative of FNAARC Confcommercio Reggio Calabria.
For a sales agent, fuel is not an occasional consumption, but a structural and incompressible cost of professional activity. Added to this are maintenance, tyres, insurance, tolls and vehicle renewal. A condition that is even more evident in Calabria, where distances, the shape of the territory and critical infrastructure issues make the car almost indispensable for reaching businesses and customers.
“We are not asking for privileges, but for the recognition of an objective peculiarity of our profession. If the interventions become selective, among the criteria to be considered there should also be the intensive and indispensable use of the vehicle for carrying out the work activity”. The Commercial Agents of the Confcommercio Reggio Calabria system also recall the need, already supported by the National Federation, to update the taxation of the commercial agents’ cars, still linked to parameters that are now far from the real market values.
“Supporting commercial agents means supporting those who oversee the territory every day, generate orders, create commercial relationships and connect companies with the market. It is important that our category also finds adequate space in the Government’s next decisions”, concludes Gentile.