Several players fined in the road freight transport sector for boycott

The Autorité de la concurrence is today fining several road freight transport stakeholders (freight exchanges, hauliers' associations, trade unions) for hindering the arrival and development of new digital stakeholders offering services related to the performance or optimisation of transport management, between the end of July 2016 and the end of February 2018. The cumulative amount of the penalties imposed is 500,000 euros.

The fined stakeholders had agreed to boycott and to call on their members to boycott the new digital intermediation platforms and software that could optimise the performance of transport transactions (traceability).