At IAA TRANSPORTATION 2026 in Hannover, Germany, IRU President Radu Dinescu called for deeper cooperation between technology providers, operators and associations to ensure digitalisation delivers practical benefits for road transport.
IRU President Radu Dinescu reflected on the decades-long partnership between IRU and its member Aumovio at IAA TRANSPORTATION 2026, highlighting the importance of continued cooperation as the road transport sector enters its next phase of digitalisation.
Digital and smart tachographs have fundamentally changed how the road transport sector approaches compliance and enforcement. Today, the system sits at the heart of the EU’s road transport enforcement framework, supporting the application of social rules and other transport regulations.
“The future of our industry will be digital. That is not a prediction; it is already happening around us. You can feel it,” said Radu Dinescu. “Our sector is moving faster than ever towards vehicles, systems and services that are more connected, automated and data-driven than anything we could have imagined a generation ago.”
“And yet, some things remain constant: good partnerships, shared purpose, and a genuine commitment to working together to transform our industry for the better,” he added.
From compliance to cybersecurity
As tachograph technology evolves, so do the challenges surrounding it.
Cybersecurity, data integrity and the resilience of digital systems are becoming increasingly important as operators, drivers, authorities and enforcement bodies rely on them every day.
“These are not questions that IRU or Aumovio can answer alone,” stressed Radu Dinescu. “Genuine cooperation is needed to solve such issues in the future.”
Connecting the digital ecosystem
Looking beyond the tachograph itself, Radu Dinescu highlighted interoperability as one of the key challenges for the next phase of digitalisation.
Road transport businesses increasingly interact with multiple digital systems, including the RTPD interface for posting declarations, ERRU, Tachonet and eFTI. While each has been developed for a specific purpose, their full value will depend on how effectively they can work together.
Better interoperability would allow businesses to interact with regulatory systems through a single process, rather than navigate multiple disconnected systems, while making enforcement simpler, fairer and more consistent.
For IRU, cooperation between technology providers and the road transport sector will be essential to achieving this.
“When a technology leader like Aumovio sits at the same table as operators and associations, we stop designing systems in theory and start building ones that work in practice,” concluded Radu Dinescu.