Origin

CNR was created by administrative decree on 14 November 1949; CNR have built, managed and controlled the Mandatory Road Tariff System applicable to long haul transport for hire or reward within the scope of the rail-road co-ordination policy. The liberalisation of the transport policy, and more particularly the MRTS removal, led the Public Authorities in 1989, to change it into a Professional Committee for Economic Development via the 13 March 1989 decree. It was later modified by decree no 2001-929 of 8 October 2001 (NOR: EQUT0101072D), which defines its new missions.
a) Participate in the economic monitoring of the market and provide the goods road hauliers and the public authorities with the information it gathers and the economic analyses it carries out;

b) Carry out socioeconomic research and studiess that are useful to the whole profession;

c) Lead all missions entrusted by the Transport Minister, which are of general interest to the profession.
The Comité national routier may be informed by the Transport Minister about any request for studies and evaluations concerning the transport of goods sector and the haulage profession, for anything concerning the market status and relationships between the customers, hauliers and consignees. It sends to both the Transport Minister and the chairman of the National Transport Council a yearly report about its activities.

 

A technical organisation

CNR is a technical organisation whose prime mission is to monitor the market operational methods. The fields of study are chosen according to their practical interest to the hauliers so that they can profit from the results. To this end, analysis presentation is displayed in a form the hauliers can understand.

CNR is the only organisation with an extensive competence in the observation of the evolution of operation conditions and cost components. It analyses their interconnections. From the collected data, it reconstitutes road haulage Cost Prices:
- into actual data.
- into so-called standardised data, i.e. by strictly abiding by all safety rules and social regulations. On this account, it issues "base costs".
Both these approaches provide the Professionals with markers.

It develops calculation tools that aim to help the companies calculate their Cost Prices in a more accurate manner. These tools are freely available on the Internet.

Both the professional and conventional press widely relay CNR's information.

The objectivity of CNR's works is acknowledged by both the world of transport and the industrial and distribution sectors. It is completed by a strong research concern of the utmost reliability.

As a whole, economic analysis and modelling are always compared with the facts of the real world. The lessons that can be drawn are fully placed at the disposal of the Profession, bar none.

CNR widens its market observation works, and particularly the conditions of competition and competitiveness connections with the European market. To this end, it has endeavoured to mutualise the knowledge gathered by professional organisations. Within a network, it develops co-operative agreements with French and foreign organisations, universities and study offices.